June 19, 2013

Post: Call for papers: Percona Live London

… step up and volunteer to present your unique insights into MySQL and MySQL-related technologies either as a keynote, tutorial or breakout… using MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB, Drizzle or (fill in the blank) in production? Are you managing multiple environments? Are you working with MySQL… sponsors. This is the showcase event for Europe’s growing MySQL community of developers, business managers, technology evangelists, DBAs and entrepreneurs…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL available for download

… XtraBackup makes MySQL hot backups for all versions of Percona Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle. It performs streaming, compressed, and incremental MySQL backups. Percona’s enterprise-grade commercial MySQL Support contracts include…

Post: 10 years of MySQL User Conferences

… (complete MySQL replacement). There is a lot of “MySQL Community” focused keynotes. Good coverage of MySQL Alternatives including keynotes for Drizzle and MariaDB. MySQL 5.5 replaced MySQL 5.4 as…

Post: Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table

… 2009, I finished what seemed an epic task in the Drizzle code base: banishing the FRM file. Why? We felt it… from the MySQL philosophy, and one that has truly paid off in the Drizzle code base. However… for those using MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB or any other of the MySQL branches/forks, you…

Comment: SimCity outages, traffic control and Thread Pool for MySQL

… do on internal company time, which at that time (in MySQL AB) was aggressively driven by sales. They did not get… early example of this is classic MySQL replication, which was implemented by Sasha Pachev at MySQL AB around 1999, paid for by… rip out that entire chunk of code when working on Drizzle. Stored Procedures have their use today, but it’s not…

Comment: Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table

… picked the right way for Drizzle, imho. I assume these limits also apply to views in MySQL? —- (This post was edited to…

Post: Percona Welcomes MySQL 5.6!

… Services for MySQL 5.6 In addition to Percona Server, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Drizzle, and Oracle MySQL, MySQL 5.6 is fully supported by our MySQL Consulting,  MySQL Support, MySQL Server Development, and MySQL Remote DBA teams: Our MySQL Consulting…

Post: MySQL opening .frm even when table is in table definition cache

… the day. Since we completely reworked how metadata works in Drizzle, it has enabled us to do some truly wonderful things… 65,535 has never been true (but now is in Drizzle), produce a CREATE TABLE statement that took over four minutes… InnoDB itself and in the table_definition_cache). Further reading: MySQL Forge Internals document on the FRM file format Stewart’s…

Post: Troubleshooting MySQL Memory Usage

… this post is dual. I would encourage MySQL Team at Oracle, MariaDB team or Drizzle team to take a look into solving this problem. You will be thanked by a lot of people running MySQL… be and I’m very hopeful future releases of MySQL, MariaDB or Drizzle bring improvements in this space allowing us to see…

Post: Two Types of MySQL Users

… groups of MySQL Users Users what want cool database This is where a lot of energy is flowing (and Drizzle is picking… this – you might think most relevant players in MySQL community participated in MySQL Users Conference over the years. This is about 2000… heard about Drizzle, MariaDB or Percona Server, they often do not attend MySQL Conference and may not even know Oracle owns MySQL these…