June 20, 2013

Post: Welcome to the team, Baron

As you may have seen from his blog, Baron Schwartz is joining our consulting company – Percona in less … news for us as Baron is renowned MySQL community member, blogger, co-author of High Performance MySQL second edition book, author of Maatkit and… take a look at your system and help you with high availability scaling optimization or other needs you can do it…

Post: Percona Live: Venu Anuganti; early bird registration expires tomorrow

… as a Data architect, evaluating and implementing high performance SQL/NoSQL data store solutions for …database kernel engineer at companies like SolidDB, MySQL, ANTs Data Server and Yahoo! Venu … investigative blog posts such as How read_buffer_size Impacts Write Buffering and Write Performance. — …

Comment: InnoDB auto-inc scalability fixed

[...] guys over at MySQL Performance Blog – the high performance MySQL gurus – reported that a important bug for was fixed (currently only [...]

Post: MySQL Life Cycle. Your Feedback is needed.

…Facebook also sticks with MySQL 5.1 even though their highly patched and improved version. MySQL 5.0 …see old MySQL versions are used is typically when application is not overly demanding so performance improvements … this matter either as comments to this blog posts or as direct email to my initials…

Post: Announcing Percona Training Workshops for InnoDB and XtraDB

… from all our team – and covers a lot of the performance problems we run through in our consulting practice. The Details… 1 day intensive course Cost: $300* (* includes a copy of High Performance MySQL if you register before 31st Aug). The delivery format: Being… giving away the first two tickets to readers of our blog.  To enter, send an email to contest[at]percona…

Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!

… 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…

Comment: 3 ways MySQL uses indexes

Peter, thanks for response. Percona blog is really great source of knowledge with many helpful people. I hope we will see 3rd edition of “High Performance MySQL” book soon.

Post: Join Optimizations in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5

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

… 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: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution – Replication

In the last 2 blog posts about High Availability for MySQL we have introduced definitions and provided a list of ( questions … what is the most popular HA solution for MySQL, replication. High Availability solution for MySQL: Replication This HA solution is the easiest to… slave means no degraded performance associated with caches warm up. Finally, it is well known that with MySQL, altering a table means…