I’m excited by all of the recent developments surrounding the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo! Our own Baron Schwartz will moderate the Diamond Keynote Panel entitled “Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL” which will feature a panel of MySQL industry leaders, including: Sundar Raghavan, director product management at Amazon; Paul Mikesell, CEO of [...]
Diamond Keynote Panel, BOFs, Lightning Talks, and McAfee and AOL Sponsorships
April 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
Free ticket to MySQL User Conference on SF Meetup with talk “Percona XtraDB Cluster”
March 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Just a reminder that I will be giving a talk “Percona XtraDB Cluster” on coming San Francisco MySQL Meetup, next Wednesday, March-21, 2012. Along with talk I will give away one full ticket (tutorials + sessions + expo hall) to Percona Live MySQL User Conference 2012 and three copies our new book “High Performance MySQL, [...]
Early Bird Pricing Ends Today for Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Early Bird Pricing for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo ends today, March 12th. Hotel room rates at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara go up March 19th, if rooms are still available at that time. Save money on your conference pass and hotel room by registering now. The conference features 72 breakout sessions, an [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster Events
February 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
We are on our way to delivery a production ready release of Percona XtraDB Cluster by the end March-2012. We will do couple events to cover features and architecture of XtraDB Cluster.
How to convert MySQL’s SHOW PROFILES into a real profile
February 20, 2012 By 12 Comments
SHOW PROFILES shows how much time MySQL spends in various phases of query execution, but it isn’t a full-featured profile. By that, I mean that it doesn’t show similar phases aggregated together, doesn’t sort them by worst-first, and doesn’t show the relative amount of time consumed. I’ll profile the “nicer_but_slower_film_list” included with the Sakila sample [...]
My talks on PL MySQL Conference (+free book inside)
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On coming PL MySQL conference 2012 I will give one tutorial: Percona XtraBackup: install, usage, tricks. This tutorial I will do in joint with Alexey Kopytov, the lead developer of Percona XtraBackup. Our intent is to provide the comprehensive overview of the XtraBackup architecture and features, and we will touch future roadmap. This is all [...]
Speaking at MySQL Meetup in Charlotte,NC
February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
February is going to be a busy meetup month for me. In addition to speaking in Raleigh I will visit Charlotte to speak at Meetup out there on February 23rd. Last year I visited Charlotte meetup was in the great place and we had great food and great crowd of people showing up. I will [...]
Speaking at MySQL Meetup in Raleigh,NC
January 30, 2012 By 2 Comments
I’ll be presenting at MySQL Meetup in Raleigh,NC February 21,2012. The talk with be about Optimizing MySQL Configuration which I believe is a great topic for my first talk at this meetup group as it covers something every MySQL user has to deal with, also being something both beginner and advanced MySQL Users can learn [...]
Making the impossible: 3 nodes intercontinental replication
January 11, 2012 By 29 Comments
In this post I want to show new possibilities which open with Percona XtraDB Cluster. We will create 3 nodes Cluster with nodes on different continents (Europe, USA, Japan) and each node will accept write queries. Well, you theoretically could create 3 node traditional MySQL ring replication, but this is not what you want to [...]
Identifying the load with the help of pt-query-digest and Percona Server
December 29, 2011 By 3 Comments
Overview Profiling, analyzing and then fixing queries is likely the most oft-repeated part of a job of a DBA and one that keeps evolving, as new features are added to the application new queries pop up that need to be analyzed and fixed. And there are not too many tools out there that can make [...]
