I’m pleased to announce special bundled hotel/conference pass packages for the Percona Live London MySQL Conference which is December 3-4, 2012 at The Millennium Gloucester Conference Centre in London. The conference features tutorials December 3rd and breakout sessions December 4th. A networking reception will follow the Tuesday sessions. Four special, money-saving bundles are available, whether [...]
Sell-an-Elephant-to-your-Boss-HOWTO
August 28, 2012 By 3 Comments
Spoiler alert: If your boss does not need an elephant, he is definitely NOT going to buy one from you. If he will, he will regret it and eventually you will too. I must appologize to the reader who was expecting to find an advice on selling useless goods to his boss. While I do [...]
Announcing Percona Live MySQL London
June 27, 2012 By 6 Comments
Looking for a great opportunity to share your MySQL knowledge with the MySQL community? Here is your chance. Percona is happy to announce that the dates of the Percona Live MySQL London Conference have been set for Dec. 3-4, 2012. Call for speakers is underway and will be open until August 17th, 2012. The conference [...]
Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2
May 16, 2012 By 17 Comments
I have been working for a customer benchmarking insert performance on Amazon EC2, and I have some interesting results that I wanted to share. I used a nice and effective tool iiBench which has been developed by Tokutek. Though the “1 billion row insert challenge” for which this tool was originally built is long over, [...]
Introducing Zend DBi as a MySQL Replacement on IBM i
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
You might have heard that Oracle made the decision not to support MySQL for IBM i any longer. This is certainly understandable. However, there are still users who want to continue running IBM i and MySQL. That’s why we’re happy to announce that we have assisted Zend to introduce Zend DBi as a drop-in replacement [...]
Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC
April 25, 2012 By 9 Comments
Following my previous benchmark of Samsung 830, today I want to show results for STEC MACH16 SATA card, 200GB size, this card is based on SLC, and regarding STEC website, it is an enterprise grade storage.
Percona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona has 2 talks lined up at OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany: – Taking hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by Kenny Gryp Feel free to come and say Hi! On April 25 & 26, 2012 the Open Source Data Center Conference will invite experienced administrators and architects [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo Was A Great Event
April 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
BOFs and Lightning Talks Announced for Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo
March 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo is going to be awesome! Great speakers, an A-list of sponsors, countless opportunities to engage with the community, and an enthusiastic crowd of MySQL users ensure this is going to be a great event. The conference features 72 breakout sessions, keynotes by leading industry luminaries, an optional day [...]
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 [...]
