Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.1 on May 15th 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered [...]
Percona Live MySQL Conference 2013 wrap-up
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 was April 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. This was Percona’s second year organizing the conference and we were very pleased with the event and the feedback (check the #perconalive hashtag for a sampling of the great comments such as this from Tom Krouper or this from John [...]
Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha now available
April 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha on April 2, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here. For this ALPHA release, we will not be making APT and YUM repositories available, just base deb and RPM packages This is an ALPHA quality release and is not [...]
MySQL 5.6 Compatible Percona Toolkit 2.2 Released
March 25, 2013 By 2 Comments
A new Percona Toolkit series has been released: Percona Toolkit 2.2 for MySQL 5.6. Several months in the making and many new features, changes, and improvements make this a great new series. It replaces the 2.1 series for which we plan to do only one more bug fix release (as 2.1.10) then retire. 2.2 is [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0
September 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0 on September 4th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.65, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.65-14.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Where to get a BZR tree of the latest MySQL releases
August 16, 2012 By 1 Comment
I just posted this to the MySQL Internals mailing list: Hi all, Like many of you, I’m disappointed that the bzr trees for MySQL are out of sync with the tarball source and binary releases from Oracle. Since Oracle has been silent on this, and this is a recurring problem, I’ve decided to attempt to [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.25a-27.1
July 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.25a-27.1 on July 21st, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.25a, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.25a-27.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0
March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0 on March 20th, 2012. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.5.21, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.21-25.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
How to recover deleted rows from an InnoDB Tablespace
February 20, 2012 By 4 Comments
In my previous post I explained how it could be possible to recover, on some specific cases, a single table from a full backup in order to save time and make the recovery process more straightforward. Now the scenario is worse because we don’t have a backup or the backup restore process doesn’t work. How [...]
Identifying the load with the help of pt-query-digest and Percona Server
December 29, 2011 By 3 Comments
Overview Profiling, analyzing and then fixing queries is likely the most oft-repeated part of a job of a DBA and one that keeps evolving, as new features are added to the application new queries pop up that need to be analyzed and fixed. And there are not too many tools out there that can make [...]
