by Baron Schwartz | Jun 6, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. In today’s data-driven world, the protection and reliability of our valuable information is vital. The potential impact of data loss or corruption on individuals and organizations... by Baron Schwartz | Jun 15, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Version 1.0.1 of the Percona Monitoring Plugins is released. This is a routine bug-fix release that addresses several minor issues.The Percona Monitoring Plugins are high-quality components to add enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing capabilities to your... by Baron Schwartz | Jun 12, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
The Percona Toolkit team is happy to announce the release of Percona Toolkit versions 2.0.5 and 2.1.2. These are bug-fix releases in the 2.0 and 2.1 series, respectively. These releases fix many dozens of bugs, and we suggest that users upgrade to the latest versions... by Baron Schwartz | Jun 7, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona will be at Southeast Linux Fest tomorrow and Saturday. We’re supporting the event, and we hope to meet you there. If you’ve never been, this is a great regional show that’s grown enormously in the last few years. Peter and I will both be... by Baron Schwartz | Jun 2, 2012 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
One of our customers asked me whether it’s safe to enable the so-called USER_STATISTICS features of Percona Server in a heavy-use production server with many tens of thousands of tables.If you’re not familiar with this feature, it creates some new... by Baron Schwartz | May 8, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events
The recording and slides for my webinar on zero-downtime schema changes with MySQL are available now. Don’t miss Vadim’s webinar tomorrow! by Baron Schwartz | May 3, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
The recording of yesterday’s webinar, as well as a PDF of my slide deck, is now available. You can watch the recording and get the slides here.I got a lot of questions, and did not have enough time to answer all of them, so let me try to answer some of the... by Baron Schwartz | Apr 17, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
I’m happy to announce that version 1.0 of Percona Monitoring Plugins is now available. The Percona Monitoring Plugins are high-quality plugins, templates, and add-ons for Nagios and Cacti, so you can add world-class MySQL monitoring to your existing enterprise... by Baron Schwartz | Apr 17, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
Thanks to all of our sponsors, speakers, speaker selection committee, event staff, and especially the attendees for making last week’s conference a resounding success. With over a thousand people, the event made a good comeback after last year’s event, but... by Baron Schwartz | Apr 10, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
I’m delighted to announce a partnership with New Relic. The press release has the details (all new Gold and Platinum support contracts get free New Relic subscriptions) but I wanted to add some of the behind-the-scenes context.The quote from me in the press... by Baron Schwartz | Apr 9, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
We have spent months planning and preparing for the MySQL conference that begins tomorrow. It seems appropriate to reflect on this process, where the open source and business communities are now, and what we have planned for the future.The annual April MySQL... by Baron Schwartz | Apr 5, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
I’m proud to announce the GA release of version 2.1 of Percona Toolkit. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL.With this release we introduce a new version of pt-online-schema-change, a tool that enables you to ALTER large... by Baron Schwartz | Mar 29, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Most of the Nagios plugins included with the Percona Monitoring Plugins are purpose-built for specific scenarios that I found in my research to be frequent, severe, or subtle causes of problems in MySQL systems. They are intentionally not generic because I wanted to... by Baron Schwartz | Mar 29, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
It’s taken a little while to sort out the contest logistics, but we’re ready now, so I want to congratulate our three first-prize winners to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo:David Juntgen Jeff Hansen Domenick PetrellaFor helping us to promote the... by Baron Schwartz | Mar 26, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
I frequently see questions about how to understand the nature of errors in MySQL’s error log. Now, there is a lot of complexity to this — the flowchart would be quite large, as with any nontrivial piece of software. But there is one particular class of... by Baron Schwartz | Mar 14, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’re giving away three full conference passes (worth $995 each) to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, and you can win one simply by sharing the conference with your friends and colleagues! Second prize is one of ten copies of the new High Performance... by Baron Schwartz | Mar 14, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
I am writing a specification for updating pt-online-schema-change. The outline of the changes I want to make is here: https://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/ptdev:blueprints:redesign-pt-online-schema-changeThe idea is to make the tool Do The Right Thing, with features such... by Baron Schwartz | Mar 13, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
Have you authored a technical book that’s relevant to MySQL users? Want to get great visibility for yourself and your book? We’re planning a book-signing session for the upcoming MySQL conference, and you can participate in it.In brief, we’ll provide... by Baron Schwartz | Mar 8, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Toolkit version 2.0.4 is available for immediate download. This release fixes 25 bugs and is a bug-fix release only, with the exception of a minor new filtering option for pt-kill. The change log is available on Launchpad. There are links to the documentation,... by Baron Schwartz | Mar 5, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
Congratulations to Monty Program and the many community contributors for releasing the GA version of MariaDB 5.3. We were in our annual all-staff meeting last week, so we are a little slow to blog about this and acknowledge the great work that has gone into MariaDB.... 
