… the new High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition (worth $55 each), the recently released update to the popular second edition! This year’s MySQL Conference… contact the winners privately to confirm, and then post another blog entry here to announce the results. Make sure we (or… second prizes are a free copy of the new book “High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition” which will be available for pickup at the…
Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 5, 2012 By 17 Comments
… meeting last week, so we are a little slow to blog about this and acknowledge the great work that has gone… MariaDB as a first-class member of the MySQL family of databases. Finally, High Performance MySQL, Third Edition mentions MariaDB in many places, so… of MySQL that suit different needs and personalities, with different characteristics, and feature and performance improvements are moving rapidly forward for the MySQL…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 6, 2012 By 17 Comments
… same thing. I often see tweets like “Oracle has killed MySQL and made it closed-source.” Actually, people often say this… reason I make some effort to blog and speak about Oracle’s real contributions to MySQL: I can’t stand when people are wrong on the internet 
Maybe the new High Performance MySQL book will also…
Post: Join Optimizations in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5
April 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
…blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL… first obvious improvement is shown by the high numbers of Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead …best possible performance gain. This is not entirely visible in the manual either for MariaDB or MySQL, …
Post: Multi Range Read (MRR) in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5
March 21, 2012 By 10 Comments
… the second blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6… were captured when performing the benchmark on IO bound workload, mentioned above. Counter Name MySQL 5.5 MySQL 5.6 MySQL 5.6 w… with MRR are performing badly. The interesting thing is that though both MariaDB and MySQL 5.6 are reporting high numbers for Innodb…
Post: Working on "High Performance MySQL, Second Edition", how you can help?
August 31, 2007 By 20 Comments
… we’re working on major rewrite of High Performance MySQL book – the most famous book about MySQL Performance on the market… which is getting old… MySQL Performance topic to the market. Me and Vadim have great internals insight and a lot of practical experience in MySQL Scaling and Performance… his excellent writer skills – many articles you find at his blog are very smart in depth and elaborate. OK at this…
Post: Looking for High Performance MySQL Interns
September 2, 2007 By 1 Comment
…opening at MySQL Performance Blog. We’re looking for Intern position (with limited compensation) to work on project of MySQL Performance research …for the Computer Science student interested in High Performance systems design, performance optimizations and MySQL. The work done with us has potential…
Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
… how we do a performance audit (it’s our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will… read these, there’s a full explanation in our book, High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition (it’s not in the first edition). From… a high-performance system is virtually every query.) If it’s not possible to use a patched binary, we can use MySQL Proxy…
Post: High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL
December 22, 2008 By 13 Comments
…high-performance systems to do this work. Let’s see some ways you can build the functionality you need and get the performance… article on data archiving on my own blog a while back. The benefits of … schemas. The problem is that MySQL doesn’t tend to perform well on a data warehousing workload…
Post: How we work on High Performance MySQL Second Edition
November 12, 2007 By 12 Comments
… for authoring a book being involved in MySQL Support, MySQL Consulting, Documentation, MySQL Training while working for MySQL and now on his own. Finally… also add value to the Book. I always liked Barons blog posts which were often very explanatory easy to understand and… well as being author of very popular tools – Innotop and MySQL Toolkit. Initially Andy proposed us to work on the book…
