Percona Server version 5.1.56-12.7 is now available for download. It is based on MySQL 5.1.56 and is the current stable release in the 5.1 series.
Percona Announces Drizzle Support
April 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
As you might have heard, at the MySQL Conference this earlier this week we announced our launch of Drizzle support services. We added Drizzle to the list of database servers that is covered under our MySQL support contracts. This includes MySQL, Percona Server, Amazon RDS, MariaDB, and the XtraBackup and Maatkit tools.
Percona XtraBackup 1.6
April 12, 2011 By 15 Comments
Percona XtraBackup 1.6 is now available for download and is the current stable release version of XtraBackup.
Optimizing slow web pages with mk-query-digest
April 7, 2011 By 14 Comments
I don’t use many tools in my consulting practice but for the ones I do, I try to know them as best as I can. I’ve been using mk-query-digest for almost as long as it exists but it continues to surprise me in ways I couldn’t imagine it would. This time I’d like to share [...]
Percona Server 5.5.10 (Release Candidate)
April 4, 2011 By 4 Comments
Percona Server release 5.5.10-20.1 is now available for download. This is a release candidate for the Percona Server 5.5 series. In addition to MySQL 5.5.10 now being the base version, here are the changes that have been made since Percona Server beta release 5.5.8-20.0:
How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Many of the prominent companies in the MySQL ecosystem are Percona customers, including hardware manufacturers, software developers, hosted service providers, and appliance developers. We perform paid and unpaid research on their products, and we publish blog posts related to their products or services. Independence and objectivity are core Percona values. How do we balance the [...]
Percona Server 5.1.55-12.6
March 7, 2011 By 5 Comments
Percona Server version 5.1.55-12.6 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Changes Fixed compiler warnings in both the core server and in XtraDB. (Alxey Kopytov, Yasufumi Kinoshita) Bugs Fixed Bug #602047 – The ROWS_READ columns of TABLE_STATISTICS and INDEX_STATISTICS were not properly updated when a query involved index lookups [...]
How Percona diagnoses MySQL server stalls
March 3, 2011 By 6 Comments
We receive many requests for help with server stalls. They come under various names: lockup, freeze, sudden slowdown. When something happens only once or twice a day, it can be difficult to catch it in action. Unfortunately, this often leads to trial-and-error approaches, which can drag on for days (or even months), and cause a [...]
Percona Server 5.5.8 Beta Release
February 16, 2011 By 16 Comments
It’s finally here! Percona Server Percona Server 5.5.8-20.0 is now available for download. This is a beta release of Percona’s enhancements to the MySQL 5.5.8 server. Here are some highlights: Performance and scalability improvements throughout the server and storage engine Optimizations for flash storage such as SSD, Virident, and FusionIO Optimizations for cloud computing The [...]
White Paper: “Scaling MySQL Deployments Efficiently” from Percona and Virident
February 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
Percona was working closely with Virident on evaluating tachIOn as solution for MySQL, and as result you can find whitepaper “Scaling MySQL Deployments Efficiently Using Virident tachIOn Drives”, available from Virident website. It was done as part of our consulting practice, but all results and numbers are certified by Percona. I personally really enjoyed performance [...]
