Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) was released over a year ago and since then there has been tremendous interest and adoption. There’s plenty of talks that explain the fundamentals of PXC, but we’re starting to reach a threshold where it’s easier to find folks with PXC in production and such the need …
Comment: Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 first Release Candidate now available
June 18, 2013 By 3 Comments
does/will Percona 5.6 include handlersocket? I assume it’s including the memcache nosql interface in mysql 5.6, correct?
Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
…, Percona Xtrabackup and Performance and Improvements and new Features in MySQL 5.6 Garrick Peterson, a member of Percona’s RemoteDBA… replication integrity And finally, Andrew Ferlitsch will share with how MySQL can be used to provide access to government data. The…… 
So register now! Please also join the Portland MySQL Meetup group for more MySQL-focused events in Portland If you love the…
Post: Call for papers: Percona Live London
June 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… step up and volunteer to present your unique insights into MySQL and MySQL-related technologies either as a keynote, tutorial or breakout… sponsors. This is the showcase event for Europe’s growing MySQL community of developers, business managers, technology evangelists, DBAs and entrepreneurs…
Comment: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL
June 17, 2013 By 3 Comments
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: 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.
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…
Post: Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.31-30.3 now available
May 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… ported the Atomic write support for Fusion-io devices patch from MariaDB. This feature adds atomic write support for directFS filesystem on… #1171941. Fixed the CVE-2012-5627 vulnerability, where an unprivileged MySQL account owner could perform brute-force password guessing attack on… MDEV-3915). Bug fixed #1172090. mysql_set_permission was failing on Debian due to missing libdbd-mysql-perl package. Fixed by adding…
Post: Experiences with the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin
May 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
… share my experience in this post. Auditing user activity in MySQL has traditionally been challenging. Most data can be obtained from… here. The plugin writes its output in json format, and supports writing it directly to a file, or to a unix… think proper audit trail support has been an important missing feature on the server, which has made using MySQL in PCI or…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL available for download
May 22, 2013 By 3 Comments
… Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle. It performs streaming, compressed, and incremental MySQL backups. Percona’s enterprise-grade commercial MySQL Support contracts include support for XtraBackup. We recommend support for critical production deployments.
