One may have notice we were not blogging too much recently, this is because we were quite busy, mainly building BoardReader.com – Search Engine which indexes tens of thousands of forums from all over the world. This project was built by us as consulting project so too bad we do not own it completely but [...]
MySQL Performance Forum: Hot Topics
As I already announced last week I started MySQL Performance Forums project focusing on MySQL Performance discussions as it names says. I spend planty of time replying questions and thought it would be good idea to provide weekly overviews of most interesting topic discussed. Here is the list for last week: Ways to perform full [...]
MySQL Performance Forums
I’m happy to announce availability of MySQL Performance Forums on MySQL Performance Blog. This forum is created as free alternative to MySQL Consulting Services which we provide. If you would like to get some free help to your performance issues please use forums so everyone else could benefit from our replies. You also should get [...]
MySQL Query Cache
MySQL has a great feature called “Query Cache” which is quite helpful for MySQL Performance optimization tasks but there are number of things you need to know. First let me clarify what MySQL Query Cache is – I’ve seen number of people being confused, thinking MySQL Query Cache is the same as Oracle Query Cache [...]
Why MySQL could be slow with large tables ?
If you’ve been reading enough database related forums, mailing lists or blogs you probably heard complains about MySQL being unable to handle more than 1.000.000 (or select any other number) rows by some of the users. On other hand it is well known with customers like Google, Yahoo, LiveJournal,Technocarati MySQL has installations with many billions [...]
About This Blog
The MySQL Performance Blog is the place where members of Percona’s MySQL Consulting and Support teams share their technical expertise with the entire MySQL community. It’s also a venue for us to hear from our users, customers, partners, competitors and the MySQL faithful around the world. So comment often and let us know what’s on [...]

