Facebook is a major user of MySQL and has pushed the performance limits of the technology. Their MySQL experts have deep, hands on knowledge of the technology. I’m pleased to welcome Mark Callaghan, Software Engineer for Database Infrastructure at Facebook, back again this year to the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo to share his [...]
Facebook at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo and Advanced Registration Ending Soon
March 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
MySQL 5.6.10 Optimizer Limitations: Index Condition Pushdown
March 14, 2013 By 2 Comments
While preparing the webinar I will deliver this Friday, I ran into a quite interesting (although not very impacting) optimizer issue: a “SELECT *” taking half the time to execute than the same “SELECT one_indexed_column” query in MySQL 5.6.10. This turned into a really nice exercise for checking the performance and inner workings of one [...]
MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark
March 11, 2013 By 7 Comments
So far most of the benchmarks posted about MySQL 5.6 use the sysbench OLTP workload. I wanted to test a set of queries which, unlike sysbench, utilize joins. I also wanted an easily reproducible set of data which is more rich than the simple sysbench table. The Star Schema Benchmark (SSB) seems ideal for this. [...]
Percona MySQL Webinar: Really Large Queries: Advanced Optimization Techniques, Feb. 27
February 18, 2013 By 2 Comments
Do you have a query you never dared to touch? Do you know it’s bad, but it’s needed? Does it fit your screen? Does it really have to be that expensive? Do you want to do something about it? During the next Percona webinar on February 27, I will present some techniques that can be [...]
Amazon Web Services and HP Keynotes at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
February 14, 2013 By 1 Comment
We are very pleased to announce the addition of HP and Amazon Web Services as keynote speakers for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo which is April 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. Amazon Web Services is sending Simone Brunozzi, Senior Technology Evangelist, who will speak on “Databases in the Cloud: Present and Future.” HP [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster – installation and setup webinar follow up Q&A
October 28, 2012 By 4 Comments
Thanks for all, who attended my webinar, I got many questions and I wanted to take this opportunity to answer them. Q: Even ntp has a delay of 0.3-0.4 between servers does that mean a 0.25 as from logs can be an issue ? A: My demo vms were running for a few hours before [...]
Upcoming Webinar – “Deploy MySQL Like a devops SysAdmin”
October 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“devops” seems to be everywhere now, or at least everyone is talking about it. But what does that really mean? And how does the DBA integrate the movement ? During next week’s webinar, I will explain to you the big principles of the devops culture and illustrate how DBA’s can (must) be part of the [...]
How to find MySQL queries worth optimizing ?
September 11, 2012 By 6 Comments
One question I often get is how one can find out queries which should be optimized. By looking at pt-query-digest report it is easy to find slow queries or queries which cause the large portion of the load on the system but how do we know whenever there is any possibility to make this query [...]
Write contentions on the query cache
September 5, 2012 By 5 Comments
While doing a performance audit for a customer a few weeks ago, I tried to improve the response time of their top slow query according to pt-query-digest‘s report. This query was run very frequently and had very unstable performance: during the time data was collected, response time varied from 50µs to 1s. When I ran [...]
A case for MariaDB’s Hash Joins
May 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
MariaDB 5.3/5.5 has introduced a new join type “Hash Joins” which is an implementation of a Classic Block-based Hash Join Algorithm. In this post we will see what the Hash Join is, how it works and for what types of queries would it be the right choice. I will show the results of executing benchmarks [...]
