May 24, 2013

FOSDEM 2013: MySQL & Friends Devroom CfP is open !

2013 is near… and so is the next FOSDEM edition ! This year again, MySQL will be represented by its Community. If you want to discuss with friends of MySQL it’s the place to be in February ! Like every year, FOSDEM takes place the first week-end of February in Brussels. We will again have [...]

Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Part 1

I was honored to be asked to be a member of the committee for the “big” MySQL conference: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 in Santa Clara, CA.  Personally, I’ve been attending this conference for 6 or 7 years and missing it only when my wife was pregnant with a due date in April [...]

Percona Live London 2012 talks you do not want to miss

Percona Live, London 2012 continues streak of “not to be missed” events in London, following the footsteps of Royal Wedding, Diamond Jubilee and Summer Olympics. We have prepared great set of Tutorials and Sessions for these two day event. Here is my personal selection of the talks I’d love to attend, though I rarely have [...]

Thank you for joining us at Percona Live, NYC 2012

Over 200 attendees attended last week’s Percona Live NY event. This year we structured event different than in 2011 with Tutorial Day allowing for in-depth 3 hour presentations for those looking to dive deep into specific topics. We also added an Expo Hall which allowed a lot of MySQL Ecosystem participant to meet their prospective [...]

Introducing the “Version Check” Feature in Percona Toolkit

Recently there has been a storm of bugs and problems in all variants of MySQL including MySQL, Percona Server, and MariaDB. To list a few: MySQL 5.5.25 UPDATE on InnoDB table enters recursion, consumes all disk space All MariaDB and MySQL versions up to 5.1.61, 5.2.11, 5.3.5, 5.5.22 Security vulnerability in MySQL/MariaDB sql/password.c MySQL 5.1.61 [...]

Great Talks on Percona Live,NY!, Free Pass opportunity inside

You surely have heard about Percona Live,NY taking place October 1-2 in New York, you however might have been wondering what kind of talks you would see on this event and why would should you attend. The day one of this event is Tutorial day, which is long (half to a full day) presentations which [...]

Distro Packages, Pre-built Binaries or Compile Your Own MySQL

I’ve been helping customers deploy and maintain MySQL (and variants) for the last couple of years and it has always been interesting to hear customer thoughts on how they want their servers installed. It has also been asked many times not only by our support and consulting customers, but widely from different forums and blogs [...]

Submit your proposal for Percona Live London 2012 Now !

Call for papers is still open for Percona Live London 2012, but only for few more days. We’re looking for great talks relevant for MySQL Ecosystem it could be about MySQL and its variants as well as technologies which are used together with MySQL. Please consider submitting if you’re actively using MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB [...]

Clarification on MySQL security vulnerability

Contrary to initial reports here and here, further investigation has revealed that under some specific and limited circumstances, Percona Server and Percona XtraDB Cluster binaries, similar to other MySQL variants, are susceptible to the security vulnerability in MySQL/MariaDB sql/password.c: 64bit Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10) binaries are vulnerable in Percona Server ONLY on some hardware/virtualization platforms (confirmed [...]

Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo Was A Great Event

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 more importantly, the mood was strongly optimistic. I think a lot of people arrived with [...]