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Post: Index Condition Pushdown in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5 and its performance impact
March 12, 2012 By 12 Comments
… in preparation for the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. We are taking a… way this blog post is aimed at a new optimizer enhancement Index Condition Pushdown (ICP). Its available in both MySQL 5.6…
Post: Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list
January 8, 2011 By 4 Comments
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Post: Free Percona Live tickets and Percona Support contract!
May 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… event. For a chance to win a free ticket, check out the guest blog post I wrote for Engine Yard on how… Bar and Restaurant for free drinks and food, networking, prizes, and a chance to win an Unlimited Gold MySQL Support contract from…, with four tracks of 100% technical content from world-famous MySQL experts. Tickets are still available at http://www.percona.com…
Post: Using MySQL as a Queue, and Free Percona Live Tickets
September 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… guest post over on the Engine Yard blog: 5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll… the chance to enter the contest for free Percona Live London tickets! Excerpt from the blog post: Many people realize the difficulties… batch processing system, and try not to create one inside MySQL. Although the job queue is a great design pattern from…
Post: How to Monitor MySQL with Percona's Nagios Plugins
February 22, 2012 By 8 Comments
…couple of threshold-based alerts later in this blog post, and explain the need to be careful… a system reboot. The pmp-check-mysql-pidfile plugin verifies that MySQL‘s PID file exists. Evidence of… too much memory and/or for too little free memory in general. This plugin requires careful configuration…
Post: MySQL Performance Forums
August 10, 2006 By 16 Comments
… 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…
Post: Dot-Org Pavilion at the Percona Live MySQL Conference
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
…-post from my personal blog. Are you involved with an open-source project that’s interesting to MySQL users, such as Nginx… for dot-org groups to have a free expo hall booth in the Percona Live MySQL Conference in April. Please submit your… of O’Reilly’s as we can.) It’s a free table in the expo hall where people who participate in…
Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
…prominent companies in the MySQL ecosystem are Percona customers, including hardware manufacturers, software … paid evaluations or that we were given free hardware to test. If another vendor brings… with the values discussed previously in this blog post. A partnership relationship usually implies some…
Post: Shard-Query EC2 images available
May 11, 2011 By 2 Comments
… date_id column. There will be another blog post about the usage and performance of the… data from 1988 to 2010′; mysql> use ontime1; Database changed mysql> show table status like ‘ontime_fact’…Max_data_length: 0 Index_length: 539279360 Data_free: 4194304 Auto_increment: NULL Create_time: 2011-…
