… an expert in one area and familiar with one design approach but not with the other. Someone could be great MySQL Expert but have no experience with MySQL Cluster, other may be good with MySQL Cluster but have no idea… mean more services will come to us for Consulting Services Do I see MySQL replaced in its space any time soon ? I…
Post: Working on "High Performance MySQL, Second Edition", how you can help?
August 31, 2007 By 20 Comments
…’re far from experts writers plus we’re quite busy doing MySQL Consulting. Arjen has great writers experience – he worked on MySQL Documentation for many years as well as contributed a lot to MySQL…
Post: Come Meet Percona In Person Next Week
April 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
… members of our team at next week’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference in California. Drop by and meet us at booth… to our experts. To make it easier for you to meet specific Perconians, check this Google calendar for when each consultant should…
Comment: What does Using filesort mean in MySQL?
March 14, 2009 By 27 Comments
… MySQL “experts” don’t read the manual. They either “know” or assume. At the other had digging out such information is difficult. MySQL… you are interviewing for. If it’s about on-site consulting you definitely prefer one being able to answer everything on…
Post: Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, February 5th
February 6, 2011 By 2 Comments
… and has transferred to the consulting team instead. (He’s one of Percona’s data recovery experts, among other things). Percona Server…
Post: Economics of Performance Optimization
March 13, 2008 By 9 Comments
… around MySQL and LAMP and MySQL is one of them. Plus for large companies it may make sense to hire great experts and have them to do inhouse consulting helping various projects to get things right. Both Google and Yahoo for example have great experts in MySQL and Scaling…
Post: Percona welcomes Yves Trudeau and Fernando Ipar
October 8, 2009 By 6 Comments
… say many things: One of the top MySQL Cluster (NDB Cluster) experts in the world. An expert on all things High Availability, including… after a tenure of several years as a senior consultant at Sun/MySQL. Together with Matt Yonkovit, he plans to work on… our first dedicated Shift Support Captain[1]. Fernando specializes in MySQL, GNU/Linux, systems administration, and high availability. Fernando has been…
Post: Percona welcomes Ewen Fortune and Piotr Biel
October 1, 2008 By 5 Comments
…), a Certified MySQL 5.0 DBA (CMDBA), and a Certified MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA (CMCDBA). Like all of our consultants, he also… knowledge of other technologies such as Unix (IBM AIX Certified Expert, experienced SUN Solaris administrator), enterprise-level networking, advanced virtualization techniques…
Post: Percona welcomes Ryan Lowe and Vladimir Fedorkov
January 13, 2009 By 3 Comments
… a sharded MySQL backend, worked in aerospace, worked in telecom, and lots of other things. His background as a consultant, DBA (with… can make Sphinx do just about anything, and is an expert systems administrator too. (Did you know that we provide systems… is also the leader of one of our groups of consultants (codename: Mercury) and is helping us solidify core parts of…
Comment: MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 default variable values differences
February 21, 2013 By 8 Comments
….com/supportingmysql/entry/server_defaults_changes_in_mysql , in documentation now at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/server… an expert but it should improve the general quality of configuration overall. Views are my own. For an official Oracle view, consult a PR person. James Day, MySQL Senior Principal Support Engineer, Oracle
