… might have heard that Oracle made the decision not to support MySQL for IBM i any longer. This is certainly understandable. However…. Everything works on Zend DBi just as it works on MySQL, with no need to rewrite applications, management scripts, or anything… own Percona Server variant of the MySQL server. We have a history of improving the MySQL server and finding and solving bugs…
Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23
May 14, 2012 By 11 Comments
… and improvements. List of changes: Fixes merged from upstream (Codership-mysql) Support for MyISAM, now changes to MyISAM tables are replicated to…
Post: Troubleshooting MySQL Memory Usage
March 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
… have created which temporary tables (both in memory and not): mysql> select * from information_schema.global_temporary_tables \G *************************** 1. row… and fixed. This is where your MySQL Support contract can be handy. Conclusion Understanding where MySQL can allocate memory can help us to…
Post: Community events around Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
We’re very pleased with community support for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We’ve got wonderful speakers providing content … should not miss: Pythian is stepping in to organize traditional MySQL Community Dinner event during Tutorial Day of the conference (April… are free to attend (registration needed) whenever you’re attending MySQL Conference and Expo or not. Furthermore Birds of the Feather…
Post: How We Got Here
April 9, 2012 By 6 Comments
… care about MySQL, but also to the many companies that use and enhance MySQL, and that contribute far more to MySQL than might… deposit. As a result of our initiative, we’ve received support from companies such as HP, Amazon Web Services, McAfee, Clustrix… our sponsors, speakers, attendees, committee members, and friends for your support, encouragement, and participation. We’ll see you in Santa Clara…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0 GA
April 4, 2012 By 11 Comments
… entire backup to restore a single table). Percona XtraBackup now supports streaming incremental backups. In previous versions streaming backups were performed… be part of the topics at the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (register now!). Specifically, there are the following…
Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 5, 2012 By 17 Comments
… that our support contracts cover MariaDB as a first-class member of the MySQL family of databases. Finally, High Performance MySQL, Third Edition… fix, and MySQL 5.6 offers microsecond timestamp support, as well as a lot of optimizer improvements. Even the standard MySQL 5.5… more choice than ever — there are three great versions of MySQL that suit different needs and personalities, with different characteristics, and…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.9.1
February 27, 2012 By 9 Comments
… include: Backup and restore of LRU dump. For servers that support dump and restore of the XtraDB buffer pool (LRU), namely… to work with parallel compression. The xbstream format is now supported along with the tar format. The new xbstream format works…
Post: Join Optimizations in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5
April 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
… Hash Joins. Hash Join As I have told before MySQL has only supported one join algorithm and that is Nested Loop Join… 5.5 is quite slow as compared to both MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6. For MariaDB 5.5 the query… a look at the status counters. Counter Name MySQL 5.5 MySQL 5.6 MySQL 5.6 w/ join_buffer_size=6M & read…
Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 10 Comments
… talks: Tutorial on PL MySQL Conference Galera Synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL. My talk on PL MySQL Conference Percona XtraDB Cluster: New…: Data compatibility. Percona XtraDB Cluster works with databases created in MySQL / Percona Server Application compatibility. There is no or minimal application… is developed by Codership Oy company and Galera 2.x supports such new features as: Incremental State Transfer, especially useful for…
