Today I gave a presentation on “Read/Write Splitting with PHP” for Percona Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I answered as many as I could during the session, but here are [...]
New Keynote Speakers and Sponsors and Applications Open for DotOrg Pavilion for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I’m pleased to announce the first of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 keynote speakers and new sponsors including Amazon Web Services, Google, Clustrix, Scalebase, PalominoDB, Database Trends & Applications, and Linux Journal. We are also now accepting applications for the DotOrg Pavilion. Also, nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 MySQL [...]
Initial Keynote Speakers for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & the MySQL Community Awards
January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I’m pleased to announce the initial list of keynote speakers for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo, April 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. The conference promises great content with over 90 speakers in more than 110 sessions, 15 tutorials, and multiple keynotes. The MySQL Community Awards 2013 are also now accepting nominations. And do [...]
FOSDEM 2013: MySQL And Friends Community Dinner
January 16, 2013 By 3 Comments
Just like previous years, the ‘MySQL And Friends’ community is gathering to have a dinner on the Saturdaynight of FOSDEM. This time it is on February 2nd, 2013. This year, it will not be an Italian restaurant, but more a Belgian style restaurant, about 10 minutes walk from the FOSDEM event. Mirabelle: http://www.mirabelle.be/index.php?lang=en Chaussée de Boondael, [...]
DotOrg Pavilion and MySQL Community Awards at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013
January 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – the largest MySQL Conference event of the year is getting close and we’re now announcing two community activities which are going to happen at this event. Call of DotOrg Pavilion exhibitors is open – DotOrg pavilion is a free expo hall space for non commercial projects relevant [...]
Join us for our first Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. Jan 29
January 10, 2013 By 4 Comments
At Percona we focus on education a lot, which we believe is critical for us to be successful with our mission of making businesses successful with their use of MySQL. The MySQL Performance Blog, our first effort in this space, by now contains over 1,000 technical articles. We have spoken on countless conferences and Meetups [...]
Vote for Percona Server in the 2013 DeveloperWeek Awards
January 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Are you a fan of Percona Server? You can show your support by casting a vote for Percona Server in the SQL Technologies Top Innovator 2013 category of the DeveloperWeek Awards. You can vote through January 7, and voting is easy. Just login, select Percona from the alphabetical list, and cast your vote Why bother [...]
MySQL Wish for 2013 – Better Memory Accounting
December 31, 2012 By 6 Comments
With Performance Schema improvements in MySQL 5.6 I think we’re in the good shape with insight on what is causing performance bottlenecks as well as where CPU resources are spent. (Performance Schema does not accounts CPU usage directly but it is something which can be relatively easily derived from wait and stage information). Where we’re [...]
Auditing login attempts in MySQL
December 28, 2012 By 4 Comments
This is a recurrent question made by our MySQL Support customers: How can I audit the login attempts in MySQL? Logging all the attempts or just the failed ones is a very important task on some scenarios. Unfortunately there are not too many audit capabilities in MySQL Community so the first option to audit MySQL’s [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster: SElinux is not always the culprit !
December 20, 2012 By 5 Comments
If you are using SElinux, you should know that it’s advised to disable it to avoid issue with PXC. Generally the communication between your nodes doesn’t work properly and a node having SElinux enabled won’t be able to join the cluster. So when a node doesn’t join the cluster where it should, my first reflex [...]
