On April 3 at 10 a.m. PST, I’ll be giving a webinar titled “5 Percona Toolkit Tools for MySQL That Could Save Your Day.” In this presentation you’ll learn how to perform typical but challenging MySQL database administration tasks. My focus will be on the following tools: pt-query-digest, to select the queries you should try [...]
5 Percona Toolkit Tools for MySQL That Could Save Your Day: April 3 Webinar
March 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: It feels like 2007 again
March 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I actually don’t remember exactly whether it was in 2006, 2007 or 2008 — but around that time the MySQL community had one of the greatest MySQL conferences put on by O’Reilly and MySQL. It was a good, stable, predictable time. Shortly thereafter, the MySQL world saw acquisitions, forks, times of uncertainly, more acquisitions, more forks, [...]
Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Your own MySQL Database Server for Under $80
February 25, 2013 By 10 Comments
There are many reasons for wanting a small MySQL database server: You’re a uni student who wants to learn the SQL language better and needs a mini-testbox You’re a Windows user who wants to play around with Percona Server on Linux You’re a corporate application developer who wants a small SQL development & test box [...]
Speaking at Internet Summit
November 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Internet Summit seems to be the largest Tech event of the year in Raleigh,NC area. I’ve attended this conference last year and I’m proud to be a speaker this time around. If you’re up for early morning talks I’m part of “Tech Track: Inside the Data Center” block of sessions, starting at 8am, where [...]
Minimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages
October 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
Well, it happened again… Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net. While failures like this are rare, they can be quite costly and translate into headaches for the operations team when impact production systems for any length of time. At Percona, we routinely help clients architect and deploy [...]
Special Pass/Hotel Bundled Pricing for Percona Live London
October 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
I’m pleased to announce special bundled hotel/conference pass packages for the Percona Live London MySQL Conference which is December 3-4, 2012 at The Millennium Gloucester Conference Centre in London. The conference features tutorials December 3rd and breakout sessions December 4th. A networking reception will follow the Tuesday sessions. Four special, money-saving bundles are available, whether [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo Was A Great Event
April 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
Thanks to all of our sponsors, speakers, speaker selection committee, event staff, and especially the attendees for making last week’s conference a resounding success. With over a thousand people, the event made a good comeback after last year’s event, but more importantly, the mood was strongly optimistic. I think a lot of people arrived with [...]
linux.conf.au 2012 roundup
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I spent last week at linux.conf.au in Ballarat, Victoria (that’s the Victoria in Australia, not wherever else there may be one) which is only a pleasant two hour drive from my home town of Melbourne (Australia, not Florida). I sent an email internally to our experts detailing bits of the conference that may interest them [...]
Last chance for a discount on Percona Live DC!
January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In just over a week, we’ll be running a Percona Live MySQL conference in the nation’s capital, in a beautiful modern conference facility that has its own Metro rail stop. And for a limited time, you can save 20% with this discount code: PerLiveDC. If you’re in the DC area and you use MySQL, this [...]
MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 4, 2011 By 11 Comments
A while ago I started a series of posts showing benchmark results on Amazon EC2 servers with RAID’ed EBS volumes and MySQL, versus RDS machines. For reasons that won’t add anything to this discussion, I got sidetracked, and then time passed, and I no longer think it’s a good idea to publish those blog posts [...]
