Since my first post on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization introduced in Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 and a followup by Dimitri Kravchuk, we have received a large number of questions on why the benchmark results in both posts look rather different. We were curious as well, so we tried to answer that question by retrying benchmarks on [...]
Network at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
We’re very pleased with the speaker lineup for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We have outstanding MySQL experts speaking on a variety of topics during the breakout sessions and tutorials. And the keynote speakers are all top notch, MySQL technology and industry experts who will share their views of the ecosystem. Beyond the [...]
MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL
March 13, 2013 By 8 Comments
As part of Percona Remote DBA for MySQL service we recognize that reliable backups are one of the most important things we can bring to the table. In my experience handling emergencies, the single worst thing that can happen is finding out you don’t have backups available when some sort of data loss or catastrophic [...]
Webinar: Building a highly scaleable distributed row, document or column store with MySQL and Shard-Query
February 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Percona Toolkit Webinar followup Q&A
December 19, 2012 By 1 Comment
First, a thank you to everyone who attended the webinar Today, I appreciate your time and nice comments. As promised, here are answers to questions that couldn’t be answered during the talk: Q: How do you install the tools? The manual has full details, but it’s important to know that the latest release for [...]
Thank You Percona Live London 2012 Attendees!
December 14, 2012 By 2 Comments
Percona Live London wrapped up last week to very positive reviews from attendees and sponsors like those from Johan De Meersman. Percona was pleased to provide an engaging event for MySQL community members that featured engaging tutorials, highly rated breakout sessions, a very well-attended Tuesday community networking reception sponsored by Clustrix, and keynotes from a [...]
Quickly finding unused indexes (and estimating their size)
December 5, 2012 By 2 Comments
I had a customer recently who needed to reduce their database size on disk quickly without a lot of messy schema redesign and application recoding. They didn’t want to drop any actual data, and their index usage was fairly high, so we decided to look for unused indexes that could be removed. Collecting data It’s [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Part 1
November 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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
October 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Quality Assurance: Percona Server Development Now Monitored by Automated Sysbench Performance Regression Checks!
October 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Continuous integration of new features and bug fixes is great – but what if a small change in seemingly insignificant code causes a major performance regression in overall server performance? We need to ensure this does not happen. That said, performance regressions can be hard to detect. They may hide for some time (or be [...]
