Thanks to all of our sponsors, speakers, speaker selection committee, event staff, and especially the attendees for making last week’s conference a resounding success. With over a thousand people, the event made a good comeback after last year’s event, but more importantly, the mood was strongly optimistic. I think a lot of people arrived with [...]
Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1
April 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Drizzle team has published the first Drizzle 7.1 stable release. The announcement on the Drizzle blog covers some of the major improvements in this release over the previous stable release, Drizzle 7.0. I plan to write a variety of blog posts on each of the new features over the coming weeks. Major features include: Multi [...]
Diamond Keynote Panel, BOFs, Lightning Talks, and McAfee and AOL Sponsorships
April 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
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 [...]
Community events around Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
We’re very pleased with community support for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We’ve got wonderful speakers providing content of phenomenal session lineup for the conference this year. We have community helping by spreading the world, about conference, picking talks and all king of other wonderful contributions. We also have series of events organized by [...]
Troubleshooting MySQL Memory Usage
March 21, 2012 By 5 Comments
One of the most painful troubleshooting tasks with MySQL is troubleshooting memory usage. The problem usually starts like this – you have configured MySQL to use reasonable global buffers, such as innodb_buffer_size, key_buffer_size etc, you have reasonable amount of connections but yet MySQL takes much more memory than you would expect, causing swapping or other [...]
Announcing Drizzle Day, Fri 13th April 2012
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is proud to sponsor the 4th Drizzle Day, this year being held on the 13th April, the day after the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. When: Friday, April 13th 2012 from 9:30 am Where: Cypress room, Mezzanine Level, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara (5101 Great America Parkway) What: Drizzle Day is a day to learn about Drizzle, how [...]
MySQL Configuration Wizard Updated
January 26, 2012 By 5 Comments
We’ve released an updated version of the MySQL Configuration Wizard we announced at the end of last year. If you don’t remember that announcement, here’s the short version: this is a tool to help you generate my.cnf files based on your server’s hardware and other characteristics. We’ve gotten really good feedback on this tool, including [...]
Schedule for MySQL Conference 2012 is Published
January 25, 2012 By 3 Comments
I am pleased to announce the schedule for Percona Live: MySQL Conference And Expo 2012 is now published. This is truly great selection of talks with something for MySQL Developers, DBAs, Managers, people just starting to use MySQL as well as looking for advanced topics. We have talks about running MySQL on extremely large scale [...]
linux.conf.au 2012 roundup
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I spent last week at linux.conf.au in Ballarat, Victoria (that’s the Victoria in Australia, not wherever else there may be one) which is only a pleasant two hour drive from my home town of Melbourne (Australia, not Florida). I sent an email internally to our experts detailing bits of the conference that may interest them [...]
MySQL opening .frm even when table is in table definition cache
November 21, 2011 By 8 Comments
or… “the case of Stewart recognizing parameters to the read() system call in strace output”. Last week, a colleague asked a question: I have an instance of MySQL with 100 tables and the table_definition_cache set to 1000. My understanding of this is that MySQL won’t revert to opening the FRM files to read the table [...]
