We’ve just published a new white paper analyzing the causes of emergency incidents … ways to prevent emergencies in MySQL. It is a re-published and re-edited version of an article that just appeared in IOUG’s SELECT magazine. You can download it for free from the MySQL white papers…
Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
Many of the prominent companies in the MySQL ecosystem are Percona customers, including hardware manufacturers, software developers, hosted … grant you any editorial influence over what we publish. For example, we can publish blog articles about your solution independently of our work…
Post: Intel Woodcrest vs AMD Opteron for MySQL
AnandTech published Intel Woodcrest preview benchmarks which have some numbers for MySQL as well. From these numbers performance looks great and it… a way. Same site publishes Core vs K8 architecture comparison which is very interesting reading. This article also looks at performance of… you could read in the article I was working with article authors advising them how to tune MySQL and what is the reason…
Post: MySQL 5.5.8 - in search of stability
… published a blog post, Analyzing Percona’s TPCC-like Workload on MySQL 5.5, which was a response to my post, MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive. I will refer to Dimitri’s article as article [1]. As always, Dimitri has provided a very detailed and thoughtful article, and I strongly recommend…
Post: Top 5 Wishes for MySQL
… a week ago Marten send me email pointing to his article published on Jays Blog (Come on Marten, it is time for… saying about XA which were released in MySQL 5.0 without consistent work with MySQL close Partner – Innobase to ensure Group Commit… inside who can figure things out and even patch MySQL if needed. So MySQL went to chase Enterprise market and develop enterprise…
Post: MySQL extensions for hosting
…85 Commit_transactions: 0 Rollback_transactions: 0 mysql> SHOW TABLE_STATISTICS LIKE ‘hosting2%’; +——————————–+———–+————–+————————-+ | Table | Rows… statistics patch mentioned in this article, then Bluehost.com CEO, Matt Heatton, has published it …
Post: Looking for High Performance MySQL Interns
… on project of MySQL Performance research and analysis, developing and running benchmarks under our guidance, writing WhitePapers and articles. We feel this… be openly published both in terms of benchmarks code and benchmark results. Working us you would learn a lot about MySQL Architecture…
Post: Faster MySQL failover with SELECT mirroring
… that you can fail over in both directions. Aside from MySQL Cluster, which is more special-purpose, this is probably the… have to be the tools I used — it could be MySQL Proxy or a TCP sniffer or anything else. But if… the standby machine. PS: I see Robert Hodges just published an article on warm standby for PostgreSQL. Link love for interested readers…
Post: Caching techinques
Recently Jay Pipes published great article about lazy connecting and caching which reminded me my post … in cache once underlying information is updated. This is how MySQL Query Cache works by removing all queries derived from the… you’re running big blogging site which has many blogs published. You may store blog version which is updated on each…
Page: Presentations
…at performance properties of MySQL build in full text search functionality using real medium size text collection – Wikipedia Articles dump, when we… I was MySQL employee and so copyrighted by MySQL and published here with MySQL Permission. I have them published here as copy of materials published on…

