… The market is now great for MySQL Consulting. The number of MySQL users is growing rapidly thanks for MySQL Marketing and Sales departments and… with significant MySQL Experience and so MySQL Consultants is great way to solve problems for a lot of companies. Marketing Diving into consulting venture… us via email and ICQ asking for free help. Small jobs are tough From the very beginning our focus was efficiency…
Post: What's required to tune MySQL?
July 27, 2011 By 4 Comments
…’t something you should expect to deliver huge wins. If MySQL is actually badly configured, you can hurt its performance significantly… things considered. More than configuration To do a proper job, the consultant will need more than simply looking at your my.cnf… my.cnf file and see something wrong. Usually, though, the consultant needs to look at several important factors, including the following…
Post: Working on "High Performance MySQL, Second Edition", how you can help?
August 31, 2007 By 20 Comments
… doing MySQL Consulting. Arjen has great writers experience – he worked on MySQL Documentation for many years as well as contributed a lot to MySQL… people. Arjen also did fair amount of MySQL Support and Consulting while working for MySQL so he can offer us another competent point… of large amount of popular MySQL tools such as MySQL Toolkit he is surely the man for the job. Not to mention his…
Post: MySQL Geek Job Openings
May 24, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The consulting load keeps increasing so we’re looking for some help. This job would be perfect for someone interested in high performance and scaling with decent knowledge of MySQL and eagerness to learn more. We do encourage people from all countries to apply.
Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
… what we think is best for you, which is our job). After the kickoff call, we write some notes, and then…, you know the term “thin-slicing.” That describes an experienced consultant‘s approach to the problem very well. The audit itself…=/var/db/mysql –user=mysql –pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid –skip-external-locking –port=3306 –socket=/var/db/mysql/mysql.sock consult 28852…
Post: Percona Launches New Support Option for MySQL
October 5, 2010 By 9 Comments
… apple cart a little bit. Oracle is doing a great job improving MySQL, but our customers are telling us they still want… other software for which we have offered top-notch consulting since 2006. Just MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server with XtraDB, and Percona XtraBackup. Focusing makes it easier for us to do a good job for…
Post: A note about Pythian
April 17, 2008 By 4 Comments
… do fine with ours so far having just 7 active consultants but as we grow we need to get much better… do a lot of Architecture Design Scaling jobs and some custom MySQL Extensions/porting patches jobs. Paul can well deal with Fortune 500… of some 20 people we have (this includes not only MySQL Consultants but people busy with other projects as well) not a…
Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… prominent companies in the MySQL ecosystem are Percona customers, including hardware manufacturers, software … example, we frequently refer people to expert PostgreSQL consultants when needed. We believe that people who … disclosed to the prospect. It is our job to counsel on the solution, not just …
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
…over the last few years. This era is over. MySQL has never progressed so rapidly towards better features, better… we make our money from services, not software. Our job is to tell our customers what we think is… costs as closely as possible. This is why our consulting is billed by the hour in a pay-as…
Post: Onsite consulting in Sillicon Valley anyone ?
March 19, 2007 By Leave a Comment
… lot of on-site onsite consulting, but as I’m anyway going to be speaking at MySQL Users Conference anyway it may be good time for some onsite jobs. In fact I have…
