June 18, 2013

Post: BOFs and Lightning Talks Announced for Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo

… to engage with the community, and an enthusiastic crowd of MySQL users ensure this is going to be a great event… miss out on this great opportunity to connect with the MySQL community at the largest community gathering in the world. To… new Kindle Fires One of five copies of the new book High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition Don’t miss this special offer – register…

Post: Free ticket to MySQL User Conference on SF Meetup with talk "Percona XtraDB Cluster"

… giving a talk “Percona XtraDB Cluster” on coming San Francisco MySQL Meetup, next Wednesday, March-21, 2012. Along with talk I… + expo hall) to Percona Live MySQL User Conference 2012 and three copies our new book “High Performance MySQL, 3rd edition”. Well, I hope I…

Post: How to convert MySQL's SHOW PROFILES into a real profile

… with the Sakila sample database to demonstrate: mysql> SET profiling=1; mysql> pager cat > /dev/null mysql> SELECT * FROM nicer_but_slower_film… query consumed 0.18 seconds. Where did the time go? mysql> SHOW PROFILE FOR QUERY 1; +———————-+———-+ | Status | Duration | +———————-+———-+ | starting | 0.000032… query is something I developed for High Performance MySQL Third Edition, by the way. The book should be available in a matter of…

Post: Speaking at MySQL Meetup in Charlotte,NC

… crowd of people showing up. I will talk about Optimizing MySQL Configuration which I believe is a great topic for this… be helpful for developers to learn basics MySQL configuration as well as for Advanced MySQL DBAs to learn a trick or two… will bring exclusive discount to MySQL Conference and Expo as well as some signed High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition books to give away. See…

Post: Percona white paper: Forecasting MySQL Scalability

MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law. This is essentially a streamlined walk-through of Dr. Neil J. Gunther’s book Guerrilla Capacity Planning, with examples to show how you can apply it to MySQL servers. One thing alluded… two simple metrics can provide amazingly rich insight into system performance and scalability, in combination with Little’s Law and queueing…

Post: How we work on High Performance MySQL Second Edition

… great background for authoring a book being involved in MySQL Support, MySQL Consulting, Documentation, MySQL Training while working for MySQL and now on his own… very popular tools – Innotop and MySQL Toolkit. Initially Andy proposed us to work on the book in classical way, meaning we distribute…

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster Events

… copies of our new book: High Performance MySQL, 3rd edition Webinar on April-4 A New High Availability Solution for MySQL. If you are… not make to MySQL Conference, you may attend webinar. Tutorial on PL MySQL Conference Galera Synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL. As I… of Galera. My talk on PL MySQL Conference Percona XtraDB Cluster: New HA solution. Out book «High Performance MySQL, 3rd edition» has couple pages…

Post: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters

…: a) full text b) attributes Speaking in MySQL terms, Full text columns are always indexed …I would emphasize – while it is a neat performance optimization for highly selective attributes, this is … a skewed boolean attribute “ancient” which identifies books published before year 1500 and after, and …

Post: SQL Injection Questions Followup

…library subscription services? You can purchase my book SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of …computation load onto their database server.  Their MySQL server became CPU-bound, while their multiple…testing for security very challenging.  Whereas with performance, your site is working well if you…

Post: Speaking on Velocity and Book Signing

… the same conference we will have a book signing event for our book High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition which is finally in printing and…