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Announcing Percona Performance Conference 2009 on April 22 & 23

February 5, 2009 By 5 Comments

…any sessions this year; Peter, Vadim, and the rest of us at Percona submitted over a dozen session proposals, which were initially declined. As …Cabral is organizing.

That’s the back story — now on to the Percona Performance Conference! This is not “another MySQL conference.” It’s a performance…to Santa Clara.

We will not be the only ones speaking at Percona Performance Conference; other experts will join us in making presentations too. …to propose a session, please do so through the Percona Performance Conference website.

The Percona team looks forward to greeting you face to face …

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Presentations from OpenSQLCamp Published

December 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment

We have now published presentations from OpenSQLCamp at Percona Presentation pages Percona MySQL Patches is a great presentation to see Percona Patches for MySQL in action, showing how you can use them to get more understanding of your server load and improve server performance, as well as how they can improve performance all together. Sphinx [...]

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How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments

Our customers or prospective customers often ask us how we do a performance audit (it’s our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will both answer their question, so I can just reply “read all about it at this URL” and share our methodology with readers a little bit. This [...]

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New Presentations published (Meetup and Highload)

November 7, 2008 By 1 Comment

We have finally found the time to update out presentation pages – we’ve added the presentation on MySQL Scaling by Sharding and Replication as well as Russian Language presentations I’ve given at HighLoad++ conference back in October. Innodb Scalability and New Features (Russian), Scaling MySQL-powered Web Sites by Sharding and Replication (Russian), Wonderful World of [...]

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Wonderfull World of MySQL Storage Engines slides are now published

August 11, 2008 By 4 Comments

I should be faster with publishing slides but things are how they are. The slides from my OSCON2008 talk are now published at Percona Presentation Pages. Enjoy

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Percona turns two today !

August 1, 2008 By 13 Comments

July 31st 2006 was my last day working for MySQL and August 1st I started what later was incorporated Percona with Vadim joining me September 1st as co-founder. Two years is a significant anniversary for any startup – surviving (and being profitable) for 2 years can be seen as validation of our business model and [...]

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How to Outrun the Lions

July 13, 2008 By 10 Comments

I just posted slides from a talk I gave at a Facebook application developer conference in Las Vegas this weekend. The talk is titled Outrun the Lions. Our customers run several of the top 10 applications on Facebook right now (as measured by the number of active users), and I revealed the secrets to building [...]

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Percona Team presentations from MySQL Users Conference 2008 published

April 30, 2008 By 1 Comment

If you’ve missed our presentations on MySQL Users Conference you can catch up now by taking a look at the slides, which are now published in presentations section of our company web site. You can also find a lot of old presentations in the same location.

Enjoy !

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MySQL Error Message Nonsenses

March 16, 2008 By 7 Comments

What MySQL honestly was never good at is giving good helpful error messages. Start with basics for example – The error message in case of syntax error gives you information about tokens near by but little details:

It would be much better if MySQL would give error give exact position of error (with complex [...]

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Speaking on MySQL Users Conference 2008

February 3, 2008 By 2 Comments

Guess what ? I also will be speaking at MySQL Users Conference 2008, which is always excited. According to session schedule I’ll have one talk about Innodb Scalability Limits and another one together with Andrew Aksenoff about Sphinx. Looking back at Proposals (+1) I’m surprised only one talk was chosen and also this particular one. [...]

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