About a week ago Marten send me email pointing to his article published on Jays Blog (Come on Marten, it is time for you to get your own blog). I should have replied much earlier but only found time to do that now. So here is my list 1. Be Pluggable Unlike many OpenSource projects [...]
MySQL Consulting – Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
About half a year have passed since me and Vadim have left MySQL to do MySQL Consulting on our own. Bunch of people have been wondering about our experiences so I thought it would be worth to share it here.
BoardReader – Forum Search Engine
November 29, 2006 By 13 Comments
One may have notice we were not blogging too much recently, this is because we were quite busy, mainly building BoardReader.com – Search Engine which indexes tens of thousands of forums from all over the world. This project was built by us as consulting project so too bad we do not own it completely but [...]
Life Beyond MySQL
September 27, 2006 By 3 Comments
When I was leaving MySQL I wrote I will be doing some Web projects on my own, besides doing MySQL Consulting. I think some people thought I am just using that as an excuse and really I will only do consulting. So I’m pretty happy to announce my first project. NNSEEK Is NewsGroup search engine, [...]
Consulting for MySQL
July 31, 2006 By
Percona offers consulting (and training, and support, and development) services for MySQL and LAMP applications. We can help with all areas of the MySQL Server – Operations, Application Design, Custom Feature development, and so on. Please visit our company website to learn more about our MySQL consulting and other services for MySQL, our more than [...]
Full text search for all MySQL Storage Engines
June 26, 2006 By 37 Comments
As we know build in full text search is currently limited only to MyISAM search engine as well as has few other limits. Today Sphinx Search plugin for MySQL was released which now provides fast and easy to use full text search solution for all storage engines. This version also adds a lot of other [...]
Why MySQL could be slow with large tables ?
June 9, 2006 By 141 Comments
If you’ve been reading enough database related forums, mailing lists or blogs you probably heard complains about MySQL being unable to handle more than 1.000.000 (or select any other number) rows by some of the users. On other hand it is well known with customers like Google, Yahoo, LiveJournal,Technocarati MySQL has installations with many billions [...]
MySQL Server Variables – SQL layer or Storage Engine specific.
June 8, 2006 By 14 Comments
MySQL Server has tons of variables which may be adjusted to change behavior or for performance purposes. They are documented in the manual as well as on new page Jay has created. Still I see constant confusion out where which of variables apply to storage engines only and which are used on SQL layer and [...]
Presentations
May 3, 2006 By
This page is not updated anymore. For new presentations, please check the presentations page on our company website. We love speaking at conferences and other events. Please contact us if you’d like us to present at yours! We can also give internal presentations for your company or group. Sphinx search engine for RDBMS Egypt, December [...]
