Call for papers is still open for Percona Live London 2012, but only for few more days. We’re looking for great talks relevant for MySQL Ecosystem it could be about MySQL and its variants as well as technologies which are used together with MySQL. Please consider submitting if you’re actively using MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB [...]
Percona Live NY 2012 Super Saver discounts end tomorrow. Book Now!
July 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
If you’re looking for best prices for Percona Live NY 2012, taking place Oct 1,2 in New York do not delay and book now. Super Saver discounts ends tomorrow, which can save you hundreds of dollars off conference prices list prices. These are the best prices you can get by booking early – There will [...]
Percona Playback 0.3 development release
July 10, 2012 By 15 Comments
I’m glad to announce the third Percona Playback release – another alpha release of a new software package designed to replay database server load. The first two versions were released in April, just in time for my talk at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo: Replaying Database Load with Percona Playback. This is still [...]
Announcing Percona Live MySQL London
June 27, 2012 By 6 Comments
Looking for a great opportunity to share your MySQL knowledge with the MySQL community? Here is your chance. Percona is happy to announce that the dates of the Percona Live MySQL London Conference have been set for Dec. 3-4, 2012. Call for speakers is underway and will be open until August 17th, 2012. The conference [...]
Webinar – Migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster
May 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Whenever I learn about a new technology, I typically want to know the major administrative touch points more than I want to know exhaustive detail about every configuration option. Give me the gist, show me enough to get started, and give me a link to the manual. XtraDB cluster (and Galera, the technology on which it [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012 Prize Winners and Percona Live New York 2012
May 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’m pleased to announce a variety of prize winners associated with the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012. The following people won prizes in the pre-conference registration promotion: Kindle Fire Winners: Tatiana B., Etsy, United States Tom H., Cloudtree, United States Loren A., HearSayCorp, United States High Performance MySQL 3rd Edition Book Winners: Marcus [...]
Webinar: MySQL and SSD
May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Just as a reminder – tomorrow, May-9, 2012, at 11am PDT I will be giving a free webinar “MySQL and SSD”. This is the same talk I gave on Percona Live MySQL Conference, so if you were there – you probably will find nothing new. Otherwise, you are welcome to join!
Testing Intel SSD 520
May 1, 2012 By 8 Comments
Following my previous benchmarks of SATA SSD cards I got Intel SSD 520 240GB into my hands. In this post I show the results of raw IO performance of this card.
Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC
April 25, 2012 By 9 Comments
Following my previous benchmark of Samsung 830, today I want to show results for STEC MACH16 SATA card, 200GB size, this card is based on SLC, and regarding STEC website, it is an enterprise grade storage.
Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 – not all SSD created equal
April 25, 2012 By 12 Comments
I personally like PCIe based Flash, but from a pricing point our customers are looking for cheaper alternatives. SATA SSD is an options. There is many products based on MLC technology, and Intel 320 I would say is the most popular. I do not particularly like its write performance – I wrote about it before, [...]
