5.6 has redefined MySQL performance and usability. Some great talks at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo will provide insight into the new features and benefits of this major release. The conference is April 22-25, 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Santa Clara. Monday evening features the conference Welcome Reception where [...]
How Can Percona MySQL Server Development Services Help ?
January 28, 2013 By 3 Comments
At Percona we offer a number of services. One of them, Custom MySQL Server Development, is commonly the most misunderstood and undervalued. There are a lot of ways Percona custom MySQL server development can help your business be more successful with MySQL. Here are some ways: Bugs – There are Bugs in MySQL, Percona Server, [...]
Percona Server wins ‘Top Innovator in SQL Technologies’ award!
January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona Server has won a 2013 DeveloperWeek Best of Tech award, being named Top Innovator in the SQL Technologies category! We’re proud to accept this award, which is determined by a combination of peer voting and review from an independent panel of judges. Thank you to everyone who voted for Percona Server! From our press [...]
MySQL Wish for 2013 – Better Memory Accounting
December 31, 2012 By 6 Comments
With Performance Schema improvements in MySQL 5.6 I think we’re in the good shape with insight on what is causing performance bottlenecks as well as where CPU resources are spent. (Performance Schema does not accounts CPU usage directly but it is something which can be relatively easily derived from wait and stage information). Where we’re [...]
MySQL Indexing: Best Practices Webinar
August 7, 2012 By 3 Comments
I’m hosting MySQL Indexes: Best Practices Webinar next week, Wednesday August 15. In which I will talk about how MySQL indexes are structured and how they can be used, as well as go over the best practices in selecting correct indexes for your database workloads. Indexing looks like a very basic topic, but it is [...]
Community events around Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
We’re very pleased with community support for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We’ve got wonderful speakers providing content of phenomenal session lineup for the conference this year. We have community helping by spreading the world, about conference, picking talks and all king of other wonderful contributions. We also have series of events organized by [...]
MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 4, 2011 By 11 Comments
A while ago I started a series of posts showing benchmark results on Amazon EC2 servers with RAID’ed EBS volumes and MySQL, versus RDS machines. For reasons that won’t add anything to this discussion, I got sidetracked, and then time passed, and I no longer think it’s a good idea to publish those blog posts [...]
Data Corruption, DRBD and story of bug
November 29, 2010 By 6 Comments
Working with customer, I faced pretty nasty bug, which is actually not rare situation , but in this particular there are some lessons I would like to share. The case is pretty much described in bug 55981, or in pastebin. Everything below is related to InnoDB-plugin/XtraDB, but not to regular InnoDB ( i.e in MySQL [...]
Moving from MyISAM to Innodb or XtraDB. Basics
November 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
I do not know if it is because we’re hosting a free webinar on migrating MyISAM to Innodb or some other reason but recently I see a lot of questions about migration from MyISAM to Innodb. Webinar will cover the process in a lot more details though I would like to go over basics in [...]
Implementing Parallel Replication in MySQL
November 8, 2010 By 3 Comments
Based on discussions with several clients, we are strongly considering implementing a limited form of parallel replication. Single-threaded replication is one of the most severe limitations in the MySQL server. We have a brief outline of the ideas at this wiki blueprint. So far, the “binlog order” idea is the only one that is workable. [...]
