June 19, 2013

Post: Speaking on Velocity and Book Signing

…. At the same conference we will have a book signing event for our book High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition which is finally…

Post: Innodb Double Write

… it is recovered from double write buffer. How much does double write buffer affect MySQL Performance ? Even though double write requires each page written twice its overhead is far less than double. Write to double write buffer is sequential so it is pretty cheap…

Post: Testing the Virident FlashMAX II

… in throughput going from 128 to 256 threads and the doubling of latency that was also introduced there, this is likely…

Post: Facebook at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo and Advanced Registration Ending Soon

… stay at the Hyatt Santa Clara, I encourage you to book your hotel room immediately. Our room block is already full…

Post: MySQL Workshops: Chicago & London this April

… InnoDB work, including clustered indexes, insert buffer, adaptive hash and double write buffer. Learn to read diagnostic information from InnoDB and…

Post: MySQL performance: Impact of memory allocators (Part 2)

… are almost identical for all allocators (~2500tps) 8 vcpu – results doubled (~5000tps) for jemalloc and tcmalloc, but with glibc malloc we…

Post: InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

… be present only once in the database, and I used double quotes to group the search terms as a single phrase…

Comment: Is MySQL 5.6 slower than MySQL 5.5?

… from a 5.5 QPS (a 100% improvement in my book) would be counted as only 50 % improvement … humm. Math and…

Post: New Keynote Speakers and Sponsors and Applications Open for DotOrg Pavilion for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo

… • Silver: Box, Clustrix, Couchbase, ParElastic, Scalebase, SkySQL • Exhibitors: Akiban, Altoros, Booking.com, Codership, PalominoDB, Pythian, Sphinx, ScaleArc, STEC, Tokutek • Media Sponsors…

Post: Common MySQL traps webinar questions followup

… query writing and wanted to learn MySQL administration suggest any book or practices. Of course I’m biased but High Performance MySQL 3rd edition is a very good book. The online documentation is also a valuable resource. Q: Is…