May 19, 2013

Webinar: MySQL 5.6 Performance Schema

May 13, 2013 By 5 Comments

This Wednesday, May 15 at 10 a.m. Pacific, I’ll be leading  a Webinar titled, “Using MySQL 5.6 Performance Schema to Troubleshoot Typical Workload Bottlenecks.” In this Webinar I will offer an overview of Performance Schema, focusing on new features that have been added in MySQL 5.6, go over the configuration and spend most time showing [...]

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Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL now available

April 17, 2013 By 2 Comments

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL on April 17, 2013. Binaries are available from the downloads area or from our software repositories. New Features: Percona XtraDB Cluster has implemented initial implementation of weighted quorum. Weight for node can be assigned via pc.weight option in the wsrep_provider_options variable. [...]

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MySQL 5.6 Compatible Percona XtraBackup 2.0.6 Released

March 20, 2013 By 2 Comments

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.6 for MySQL 5.6 on March 20, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series. New Features: XtraBackup 2.0.6 has implemented basic support for MySQL 5.6, Percona Server 5.6 [...]

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InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

March 4, 2013 By 7 Comments

This is part 2 in a 3 part series. In part 1, we took a quick look at some initial configuration of InnoDB full-text search and discovered a little bit of quirky behavior; here, we are going to run some queries and compare the result sets. Our hope is that the one of two things [...]

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Announcing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.29-23.7.2

February 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.29-23.7.2 on February 13th, 2013. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Bugs fixed: DML operations on temporary tables would try to append the key for provider library, which could cause a memory leak. Bug fixed for MyISAM temporary tables, [...]

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Announcing Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2

January 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2 on January 15th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.66, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2 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 [...]

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Announcing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3

January 8, 2013 By 2 Comments

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3 on January 8th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3 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 [...]

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Announcing Percona Server 5.6.6-60.1 Alpha

September 13, 2012 By 2 Comments

Percona is glad to announce the ALPHA release of Percona Server 5.6.6-60.1 on September 14, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the EXPERIMENTAL Percona Software Repositories, although currently only for RHEL/CentOS as we are working on ensuring compatibility with our Debian/Ubuntu packages). Based on MySQL 5.6.6, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.6-60.1 is the second ALPHA release in [...]

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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 [...]

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Filling the tmp partition with persistent connections

August 6, 2012 By 14 Comments

The use of tmpfs/ramfs as /tmp partition is a common trick to improve the performance of on-disk temporary tables. Servers usually have less RAM than disk space so those kind of partitions are very limited in size and there are some cases were we can run out of space. Let’s see one example. We’re running [...]

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