I had a lot of questions on my MySQL Indexing: Best Practices Webinar (both recording and slides are available now) We had lots of questions. I did not have time to answer some and others are better answered in writing anyway. Q: One developer on our team wants to replace longish (25-30) indexed varchars with [...]
Return of the Query Cache, win a Percona Live ticket
August 26, 2011 By 4 Comments
It’s Friday again, and time for another TGIF give-away of a Percona Live London ticket! But first, what’s new with the MySQL query cache? You may know that it still has the same fundamental architecture that it’s always had, and that this can cause scalability problems and locking, but there have been some important changes [...]
Must read talk from MySQL Conference and Expo
May 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
I started going over the slides from talks from MySQL Conference and Expo 2011 to pick set of must see presentations and publish the list, but this is not happening due to lack of time. Instead I’m only going to recommend 1 talk, from list of tutorials I had a chance to review. If you [...]
Friends of Percona Get 20% Off at the MySQL Conference!
February 24, 2011 By 5 Comments
We have a special Friends of Percona discount code that you can use to get 20% off of registration at the MySQL conference in April: mys11pkb. If you click the image to the left, or this special link, it will pre-fill the code for you when you check out. Read on to see the list [...]
Moving Subtrees in Closure Table Hierarchies
February 14, 2011 By 18 Comments
Many software developers find they need to store hierarchical data, such as threaded comments, personnel org charts, or nested bill-of-materials. Sometimes it’s tricky to do this in SQL and still run efficient queries against the data. I’ll be presenting a webinar for Percona on February 28 at 9am PST. I’ll describe several solutions for storing [...]
Talks in Moscow, Minsk, Samara
October 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
I have my schedule pretty busy during a trip to Russia this year. In addition to giving a master class and Sphinx Conference I’m going to speak at HighLoad++. I’ll also have a user meeting presentations in Samara on October 17 and Minsk on October 22 This looks like it is going to be a [...]
Presentations Announcement: 2010 O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo
April 29, 2010 By 4 Comments
The Percona team participated at this year’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo held April 12-15, 2010 in Santa Clara, California. We gave a lot of talks on…
Author: Peter Zaitsev, Justin Swanhart
MySQL Graphing and Trending with Cacti
Author: Baron Schwartz
Percona‘s Performance and Feature Enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB
Author: Bill Schuler, Baron Schwartz…a Bottleneck
Author: Morgan Tocker
XtraBackup Hot Backups and More
Author: Vadim Tkachenko, Morgan Tocker
You can also read more about this conference on Percona site.
Level 2 Flash cache is there
April 27, 2010 By 5 Comments
As I mentioned in my talk An Overview of Flash Storage for Databases I see in the near and middle term future a lot of interest for using Flash storage in Level 2 caching level. The price-capacity trade-off makes Flash as the very good fit for a cache layer. Actually it is not the new [...]
The Percona Performance Presentations Are Online
April 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
The 2009 Percona Performance Conference finished up last week, and was overall a resounding success. Thanks to all of the speakers, O’Reilly, and Sun/MySQL for help making it happen! Most slides have been uploaded; look for the stragglers over the next couple of days.
Percona at PHP Quebec 09
March 10, 2009 By 4 Comments
Percona presented two talks at PHP Quebec last week – one on A Tour of MySQL High Availability, and another on Performance Tuning MySQL. There was a great reaction to showcasing some of the quick-wins that can be found by using the Percona patches. Unfortunately, the one thing that I forgot to mention in the [...]
