Why does the mysql client says it’s 5.1.70? Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 138 Server version: 5.1.70-rel14.7-log Percona Server (GPL), 14.7, Revision 572
Comment: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL
June 17, 2013 By 3 Comments
Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in the real world: Share your use cases!
June 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… (state snapshot transfer). Node3 subsequently joins the cluster with node1 and node2 in its gcomm:// (since by this time node1, node2… about your architectural setup around PXC – any challenges you faced (and horror stories if any), any special deployment methodologies you employed…
Comment: Sample datasets for benchmarking and testing
June 17, 2013 By 18 Comments
the links here are useful and informative…
Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… the MySQL Community: Vadim Tkachenko, Percona co-Founder and CTO, will talk about Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona Xtrabackup and Performance and Improvements and new Features in MySQL 5.6 Garrick Peterson, a member of Percona’s RemoteDBA team, will talk about MHA for MySQL…
Post: Call for papers: Percona Live London
June 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… without great content. So step up and volunteer to present your unique insights into MySQL and MySQL-related technologies either as a keynote, tutorial… for Europe’s growing MySQL community of developers, business managers, technology evangelists, DBAs and entrepreneurs. Download the prospectus and take a closer look…
Comment: Performance Schema overhead
June 12, 2013 By 22 Comments
Great test and report Vadim! I think the performance schema will be a great addition to MySQL once it’s more established. Just starting with MySQL after retiring from handling oracle databases – now volunteering 
Thanks for sharing.
Post: How people are using MySQL... from 1 user to 100 million (upcoming conference talk)
June 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
MySQL can be deployed in several ways, and that means you can choose a tailor-made path that … people are using a single server with some backups configured, and then simply take the downtime when a restore is needed…. My presentation will provide an overview of some possible deployment and scaling scenarios, when it makes sense to use one or…
Comment: Impact of logging on MySQL’s performance
June 11, 2013 By 8 Comments
… run on as-needed basis, and re-actively not pro-actively. I’ve actually see worse performance caused by slow query turned… good tool but it should only be used when needed, and that’s why it’s turned off by default.
Comment: How to calculate a good InnoDB log file size
June 14, 2013 By 38 Comments
According to this link, https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4662 Jesper is correct and I am wrong: when InnoDB warns about not enough space in the logs, it’s overwritten its last checkpoint. Thanks to Jeremy Cole for finding out the truth.
Comment: Converting Character Sets
June 12, 2013 By 22 Comments
… correct. There was no truncation: MEDIUMTEXT is bigger than TEXT. MySQL does this to make sure there’s *no* truncation, as explained in the manual – http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html “For…
