Daniel Nichter, the author of several very useful MySQL tools, has joined … to improve Maatkit — the “other” toolkit we rely on daily. Daniel is a skilled Perl programmer who understands MySQL. He is… we’ll be glad to discuss it with you.) Welcome, Daniel! And a toast to Maatkit’s continued improvement and usefulness!
Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.6
…) Added option –safe-slave-backupto innobackupex. (Daniel Nichter) Added option –safe-slave-backup-timeout to innobackupex. (Daniel Nichter) Other Changes Eliminated some compiler warnings…
Post: Announcing Percona Toolkit Release 2.0.3
… things like capacity planning. Brand new pt-stalk, courtesy of Daniel Nichter. This tool is also completely rewritten. Instead of a Bash…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.0.1 and 1.0.2 released
…, and then it’s easy to resume. Many thanks to Daniel Nichter for his diligent coding as we spec’ed, revised, tested…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.6.4
… that only error messages go to STDERR. Bug Fixed: #514068 (Daniel Nichter and Alexey Kopytov) innobackupex would write to files named stdout…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta
… in a file, using the –tables-file option. (Yasufumi Kinoyasu & Daniel Nichter) Additional checks were added to monitor the rate the log…
Post: Percona sessions at the MySQL conference
… can play Stump The Experts with your tough problems. And Daniel Nichter will be staffing the Maatkit booth, so you can ask…

