A new Percona Toolkit series has been released: Percona Toolkit 2.2 for MySQL 5.6. Several months in the making and…. Version check is on by default In 2.1.4, released September/October 2012, we introduced a feature called “version check… format in future releases after receiving real-world feedback. In summary, Percona Toolkit 2.2 for MySQL is an exciting release with many…
Post: Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 rerelease fixes non-restart issue
April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… running database servers. We’ve now fixed it and re-released to our downloads area and our RPM software repositories. Please… memory allocators on MySQL performance can be found in this blogpost. (Ignacio Nin) This release of Percona Server for MySQL has fixed a… (Hrvoje Matijakovic), bug fixed #1154954 (Hrvoje Matijakovic). Release notes for Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.2 are available in…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 'release candidate' for MySQL available for download
May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
…, just base deb and RPM packages This is an Release Candidate quality release and is not intended for production. If you want a high-quality, generally available release, the current stable version should be used (currently 2.0… for the InnoDB Buffer Pool Preloading introduced in MySQL 5.6. Starting with MySQL 5.6 buffer pool dumps can be produced…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha now available
April 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha on April 2, 2013. Downloads are… time of writing). This release contains all of the features and bug fixes in Percona XtraBackup for MySQL 2.0.6, plus…. Bug fixed #1032667 (Andrew Gaul). Release notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup for MySQL 2.1.0-alpha1are available in…
Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL available for download
May 6, 2013 By 1 Comment
….7 was released May 6.[/caption] Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 for MySQL on May… open-source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. This release is the current…) stable release in the 2.0 series. New Features: This version of Percona XtraBackup has implemented full support for new MySQL 5…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.1.1 GA
May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… for MySQL backup. The new 2.1.1 GA version offers improved performance, enterprise-grade security, and lower resource usage. This release is the first GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.1 series. New Features… #1175318, bug fixed #1175309, bug fixed #1176198, bug fixed #1175566. Release notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup 2.1…
Post: trx descriptors: MySQL performance improvements in Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2
April 12, 2013 By 3 Comments
… to the following kinds of transactions: MySQL transactions started with START TRANSACTION READ ONLY MySQL transactions created by a non-locking SELECT… future releases of Percona Server 5.6, which is currently in the alpha stage. We are going to blog about other MySQL performance improvements introduced in our latest Percona Server release, stay tuned.
Comment: Repair MySQL 5.6 GTID replication by injecting empty transactions
March 27, 2013 By 1 Comment
Maybe wrong place to post this, but as its MySQL 5.6 related, I thought I would bring up the … it) What is going on with the mysql 5.5 / 5.6 changelogs on MySQL.com. Anyone else noticed how extremely quiet… weeks and weeks. So either Oracle released what they believe to be an almost bug-free MySQL release… or they are taking bug…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 released; bug fixes include pt-heartbeat & pt-archiver
May 6, 2013 By 2 Comments
During the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 the week before last, we quietly released Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 with a…
Post: Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table
April 8, 2013 By 5 Comments
… code base. However… for those using MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB or any other of the MySQL branches/forks, you get to have… generating reports. This evolved into the SQL based MySQL, with MySQL 1.0 being released in 1995. The FoRM file specified what fields…_increment), CASEUP and CASEDN fields which although not implemented in MySQL, the defines can still found in the source. Basically, it…
