…originally called back in 2003), and for me it does not get tiring. So what is there in this …technologies can be applied in practice. I learn what works and what does not. I learn from the sessions…the best possible advice to my customers as a consultant. Speak. I speak at many shows and this is…
Post: What I'm looking forward to at Percona Live (MySQL Users Conference)
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Post: Onsite and Remote - getting best of both worlds
July 2, 2009 By 1 Comment
… areas/groups can gets its own day or few hours which keeps consultant busy. To make a Multi-Day visit efficient it is important… remote work – it truly allows to engage the team. If you have consultant onsite getting another one with some specific knowledge is complicated while getting…
Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
… the same problem as everybody else who does MySQL Related work – it is very hard to find people with good enough MySQL… plan and if they pull out they get into extra expenses. In case of remote consulting work can be delayed, postponed, shifted and… you’re working hard. Remote consulting allows you to bill efficient hours rather than wall clock hours but it means you get less of…
Post: Can having information public hurt consulting business ?
April 30, 2008 By 9 Comments
… because people find information on MySQL Performance Blog and use it instead of purchasing our services ? Sure they do. There are… think it does not apply to the industry of Open Source software consulting we’re working on. In general I would encourage all consultants to write more about their experience and do not get scared…
Post: Economics of Performance Optimization
March 13, 2008 By 9 Comments
… and going down to MySQL. Then now even if it all works perfectly you should think if your assessment of MySQL scaling… you probably do not want to need consultants to review every simple query you design. Getting low hanging fruit is also not… large companies it may make sense to hire great experts and have them to do inhouse consulting helping various projects to get things…
Post: Percona Launches New Support Option for MySQL
October 5, 2010 By 9 Comments
… as closely as possible. Our pricing is simple: it covers an unlimited number of servers and CPUs. Finally… consulting. The result was that all issues you submitted to us went into one pool, one queue. This works… that you can call Percona for help and get someone like that on the phone in minutes. …
Post: What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
… was at higher end what was expected from IPO, It also could be getting mostly cash payment now was attractive. If we… plan to heavily use it ? Now for Percona, our consulting company this is mostly positive development. Sun will work on expanding MySQL market further which will mean more consulting work available, and…
Post: Leaving MySQL, MySQL Consulting
July 31, 2006 By 23 Comments
…. In addition to that I’ll get back on Entrepreneurial track and work on few Web Projects. Some … Web Statistics company in Russia and I loved it a lot. I will keep you posted as …referrals or leads for my new Consulting Venture let me know. If you worked with me personally good testimonials …
Post: How we work on High Performance MySQL Second Edition
November 12, 2007 By 12 Comments
…. But I get stuck with explanatory writing as soon as it gets much larger than a blog post… Especially when it comes to explaining… a book being involved in MySQL Support, MySQL Consulting, Documentation, MySQL Training while working for MySQL and now on his own. Finally…. Anyway it is exciting to book getting close and finally we see light in the end of the tunnel. Generally speaking working on…
Post: Updated msl (microslow) patch, installation walk-through!
April 20, 2008 By 17 Comments
…. We ourselves often rely on it when doing commercial MySQL consulting and MySQL AB has even adopted it into the official database distribution… ready to run it: (garfield:~/work/mysql-5.0.51a) % make Now it’s a good moment to go and get yourself a… off the binary to make it smaller: (garfield:~/work/mysql-5.0.51a) % strip sql/mysqld (garfield:~/work/mysql-5.0.51a) % ls…
