May 20, 2013

Percona Server wins ‘Top Innovator in SQL Technologies’ award!

Percona Server has won a 2013 DeveloperWeek Best of Tech award, being named Top Innovator in the SQL Technologies category! We’re proud to accept this award, which is determined by a combination of peer voting and review from an independent panel of judges. Thank you to everyone who voted for Percona Server! From our press [...]

DotOrg Pavilion and MySQL Community Awards at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013

Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – the largest MySQL Conference event of the year is getting close and we’re now announcing two community activities which are going to happen at this event. Call of DotOrg Pavilion exhibitors is open – DotOrg pavilion is a free expo hall space for non commercial projects relevant [...]

Reminder: Speaking at MySQL Meetups in Charlotte and Atlanta today and tomorrow.

In a few hours I’m leaving for my “SouthEast Meetup Tour” first going to Charlotte where I’m speaking Today, Jan 14, about MySQL Indexing: Best practices on local MySQL Meetup and then going to Atlanta to give the same talk on Atlanta MySQL Meetup Jan 15th. If you’re in the area please come by, I’ll [...]

Join us for our first Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. Jan 29

At Percona we focus on education a lot, which we believe is critical for us to be successful with our mission of making businesses successful with their use of MySQL. The MySQL Performance Blog, our first effort in this space, by now contains over 1,000 technical articles. We have spoken on countless conferences and Meetups [...]

Vote for Percona Server in the 2013 DeveloperWeek Awards

Are you a fan of Percona Server? You can show your support by casting a vote for Percona Server in the SQL Technologies Top Innovator 2013 category of the DeveloperWeek Awards. You can vote through January 7, and voting is easy. Just login, select Percona from the alphabetical list, and cast your vote Why bother [...]

Is there room for more MySQL IO Optimization?

I prefer to run MySQL with innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT in most cases – it makes sure there is no overhead of double buffering and I can save the limited amount of file system cache I would normally have on database server for those things which need to be cached — system files, binary log, FRM files, MySQL [...]

Speaking at MySQL Meetups in Atlanta,GA and Charlotte,NC

Start of the year and time for the first speaking tour. This time I will take my MySQL Indexing Best Practices presentation to Charlotte on January 14 and Atlanta on January 15. I think this presentation is great for Meetup as it is both providing a lot of very good ready to use practical advice [...]

MySQL Wish for 2013 – Better Memory Accounting

With Performance Schema improvements in MySQL 5.6 I think we’re in the good shape with insight on what is causing performance bottlenecks as well as where CPU resources are spent. (Performance Schema does not accounts CPU usage directly but it is something which can be relatively easily derived from wait and stage information). Where we’re [...]

Percona and the MariaDB Foundation

There have been several reports (1,2,3) describing Percona’s stance regarding the MariaDB Foundation that are not totally accurate so I though it would be worth it to describe where we stand on this and related matters. First, let me say the creation of theMariaDB Foundation is a good thing for the MariaDB Community and I’m [...]

What Linux Distribution do you use to run MySQL ?

In the last poll we discovered some 90% of responders run MySQL on Linux which is not totally a surprise. Number of people asked me to do the followup pool to see what specific Linux distributions are most popular in MySQL space hence this is the poll for today. Please answer what Linux Distribution you’re [...]