June 18, 2013

Comment: Call for papers: Percona Live London

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Post: MySQL Webinar: Percona XtraDB Cluster Operations, June 26

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) was released over a year ago and since then there has been tremendous interest … the fundamentals of PXC, but we’re starting to reach a threshold where it’s easier to find folks with PXC… with PXC in production already.   As such, I’m giving a webinar entitled Percona XtraDB Cluster Operations on June 26th 2013…

Comment: Data mart or data warehouse?

Great article. Did you do a part 3-6? I did not see them in your posts. I would appreciate an email if you did. Thanks.

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in the real world: Share your use cases!

…) Integration of chef with PXC Finally, integration of HAProxy as a loadbalancer. To elucidate, their initial setup goes into bootstrapping the… not be feasible in a cloud environment. Next, the SST. Xtrabackup SST is used there. SST matters a lot because not only is it used during initial node setup but also it is required when a node has…

Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!

… Portland, Oregon next Monday, June 17. The latest in a series of FREE one-day educational events, we are pleased to feature… Senior MySQL Instructor, will continue the topic of BigData with a talk titled, “Conquering BigData with MySQL and Shard Query” Daniel… have a networking reception at the famed Paddy’s Bar and Grill sponsored by Tag1 Consulting featuring great networking possibilities and free

Post: Call for papers: Percona Live London

… submit your proposals. Your participation is an opportunity to make a difference. After all, the conference would be meaningless without great… developers, business managers, technology evangelists, DBAs and entrepreneurs. Download the prospectus and take a closer look at the benefits of sponsorship. Questions…

Comment: On Benchmarks on SSD

great write up, heres a video I did on my SSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZJ-pPeE5lA

Comment: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL

Why does the mysql client says it’s 5.1.70? Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 138 Server version: 5.1.70-rel14.7-log Percona Server (GPL), 14.7, Revision 572

Comment: Performance Schema overhead

Great test and report Vadim! I think the performance schema will be a great addition to MySQL once it’s more established. Just starting with MySQL after retiring from handling oracle databases – now volunteering :) Thanks for sharing.

Comment: Converting Character Sets

…/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html “For a column that has a data type of VARCHAR or one of the TEXT… store as many characters as the original column.” [followed by a complete explanation of why TEXT coverts to MEDIUMTEXT] Maybe something…