On Friday, February 15, 2013 10:00am Pacific Standard Time, I will be delivering a webinar entitled “Building a highly scaleable distributed row, document or column store with MySQL and Shard-Query” The first part of this webinar will focus on why distributed databases are needed, and on the techniques employed by Shard-Query to implement a distributed [...]
Webinar: Building a highly scaleable distributed row, document or column store with MySQL and Shard-Query
Percona MySQL University: Looking for a venue in Toronto next month
Thank you to everyone who attended Percona MySQL University in Raleigh, N.C. We had a great turnout and a lot of positive feedback! What’s next for Percona MySQL University? Next week we’re going to hold events in Montevideo and Buenos Aires which are gathering significant local interest! In March we’re focusing on Toronto – We’ll [...]
Announcing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.29-23.7.1
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster on January 30th, 2013. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Bugs fixed: In some cases when node is recovered variable threads_running would become huge. Bug fixed #1040108 (Teemu Ollakka). Variable wsrep_defaults_file would be set up to the value in [...]
Percona MySQL University in Montevideo and Buenos Aires
Following our Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh,NC Percona MySQL University comes to South America! We’ll have a Full day FREE MySQL Technical Educational events in Montevideo on February 5th, 2013 and Buenos Aires on February 7th. I’m very excited to bring these events to MySQL Community in Uruguay and Argentina. This is my first [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.67-14.3
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.67-14.3 on January 23rd, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.67, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.67-14.3 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.29-29.4
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.29-29.4 on January 23rd, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.29, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.29-29.4 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Read/Write Splitting with PHP Webinar Questions Followup
Today I gave a presentation on “Read/Write Splitting with PHP” for Percona Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I answered as many as I could during the session, but here are [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.5
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.5 on January 23rd, 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series. New Features: New option –defaults-extra-file has been introduced. This option specifies from what extra file to read [...]
Percona MySQL University, Raleigh just got better with AfterParty
We got a great response to our Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh With about a week to go before event we’re around 90% full, so if you plan to attend do not delay your registration until last minute. Also if you have registered before but can’t attend at this point please release your ticket [...]
New Keynote Speakers and Sponsors and Applications Open for DotOrg Pavilion for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
I’m pleased to announce the first of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 keynote speakers and new sponsors including Amazon Web Services, Google, Clustrix, Scalebase, PalominoDB, Database Trends & Applications, and Linux Journal. We are also now accepting applications for the DotOrg Pavilion. Also, nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 MySQL [...]

