A new Percona Toolkit series has been released: Percona Toolkit 2.2 for MySQL 5.6. Several months in the making and many new features, changes, and improvements make this a great new series. It replaces the 2.1 series for which we plan to do only one more bug fix release (as 2.1.10) then retire. 2.2 is [...]
Facebook at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo and Advanced Registration Ending Soon
March 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Facebook is a major user of MySQL and has pushed the performance limits of the technology. Their MySQL experts have deep, hands on knowledge of the technology. I’m pleased to welcome Mark Callaghan, Software Engineer for Database Infrastructure at Facebook, back again this year to the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo to share his [...]
Announcing Percona Server for MySQL 5.1.68 -14.5
March 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.1.68 -14.5 on March 15, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.68, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.68 -14.5 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open source and free, all [...]
Oracle Technical Experts at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
March 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I’m pleased to announce that Oracle is sending some of their top technical people to speak at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. The conference takes place April 22-25, 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Santa Clara. Tomas Ulin, VP, MySQL Engineering for Oracle, will present an invited keynote talk on [...]
Announcing Percona Server for MySQL version 5.1.67-14.4
March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL version 5.1.67-14.4 on March 8, 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 5.1.67-14.4 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details [...]
Announcing Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.1
March 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.1 on March 7, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.30, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.30-30.1 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 [...]
Percona Server on the Nexus 7: Your own MySQL Database Server on an Android Tablet
February 28, 2013 By 11 Comments
Following Roel’s post, Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Your own MySQL Database Server , I thought what other crazy gadget can I run Percona Server on? And having an Asus Nexus 7 Android tablet I decided to give it a try. Anything below contains a risk that you break your tablet if you do [...]
Announcing Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0
February 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0 on February 26th, 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 5.5.29-30.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details [...]
Percona Welcomes MySQL 5.6!
February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
MySQL 5.6 was made generally available as a production-ready solution earlier this month. This release comes about 2 years after MySQL 5.5 was released, but MySQL 5.6 contains improvements started long before that – for example, work on the Innodb Full Text Search project was started over 6 years ago, in addition with many optimizer [...]
How to use a smartphone for two-factor authentication with Percona Server for MySQL
February 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
In this post I will describe a non-trivial way to authenticate users in Percona Sever for MySQL. Percona Server comes with PAM authentication plugin, which allows you to do a lot of cool things, such as: OS authentication, LDAP authentication, even RSA Secure Server authentication (which is useful if you are required a PCI-compliance), and [...]
