Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2 on January 15th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.66, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Percona Toolkit Webinar followup Q&A
December 19, 2012 By 1 Comment
First, a thank you to everyone who attended the webinar Today, I appreciate your time and nice comments. As promised, here are answers to questions that couldn’t be answered during the talk: Q: How do you install the tools? The manual has full details, but it’s important to know that the latest release for [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2
December 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 on December 7th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Knowing what pt-online-schema-change will do
November 1, 2012 By 1 Comment
pt-online-schema-change is simple to use, but internally it is complex. Baron’s webinar about pt-online-schema-change hinted at several of the tool’s complexities. Consequently, users often want to know before making changes what pt-online-schema-change will do when it runs. The tool has two options to help answer this question: –dry-run and –print. When ran with –dry-run and –print, pt-online-schema-change changes nothing [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1
October 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1 on October 26th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.66, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Merit of Private Training
October 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona has offered Training for years, and I have personally delivered my share of Public and Private training. Below are my thoughts on the different training delivery options and how to choose the one that fits your needs. The Onsite Public training is perhaps the most conventional type. We get people from different people and go over our standard [...]
Thank you for joining us at Percona Live, NYC 2012
October 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
Over 200 attendees attended last week’s Percona Live NY event. This year we structured event different than in 2011 with Tutorial Day allowing for in-depth 3 hour presentations for those looking to dive deep into specific topics. We also added an Expo Hall which allowed a lot of MySQL Ecosystem participant to meet their prospective [...]
Tools and Techniques for Index Design Webinar Questions Followup
October 4, 2012 By 5 Comments
I presented a webinar this week to give an overview of Tools and Techniques for Index Design. Even if you missed the webinar, you can register for it, and you’ll be emailed a link to the recording. I’d like to invite folks who are interested in tools for query optimization to attend the new Percona [...]
Announcing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.27-23.6
September 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster on September 7th, 2012. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Features: Percona XtraDB Cluster supports tunable buffer size for fast index creation in InnoDB. This value was calculated based on the merge block size (which was hardcoded to 1 [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.25a-27.1
July 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.25a-27.1 on July 21st, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.25a, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.25a-27.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
