… versions. And we can and will continue to provide an open-source database server that delivers improved performance and functionality to our customers… and maintenance offering covers unlimited servers and CPUs, because the cost of providing support is not related to how many servers…
Comment: Open Development vs Making a Big Splash
May 23, 2009 By 28 Comments
…. If you’re like Mark Callaghan and I , where releasing Open Source to the MySQL community is a secondary goal, you often… you should be public about your project design requirements, source code, bug database, etc – all from day zero. It takes you about… Sun/MySQL/Oracle/InnoDB to do this on Open Source is just really stupid and costing them money. Seriously… if you WANT my…
Comment: Where to get recent MySQL version ?
January 2, 2007 By 86 Comments
… community or commercially), we must cover the costs with the money we get from paying … free and open source software significantly thanks to the fact that we have paying customers. Open source business…community, for being the leaders in modern database management. Feel free to post your suggestions…
Post: Using VIEW to reduce number of tables used
September 28, 2007 By 12 Comments
Many Open Source software solutions use database per user (or set of tables per user) which starts … needs to happen which requires table header modification, which is costly. Of course if you can simply rewrite software to store… table as VIEWs are significantly less expensive and cheap to “open“. How this could work ? Say you have “post” tables which…
Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through
July 17, 2006 By 40 Comments
… It however requires some knowledge of source code – you only get file names …and “spin rounds”. Spin locks are low cost wait, compared to OS wait, …pool size 262144 Free buffers 0 Database pages 258053 Modified db pages 37491… queries in queue 1 read views open inside InnoDB Main thread process no. …
Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
… about everything people throw at databases Many people assume their application… is a consideration of the costs and benefits on the system …far the richest and most efficient source of analysis information is our … like knowing openings in chess — the great chess players study openings exhaustively,…
Post: Percona Launches New Support Option for MySQL
October 5, 2010 By 9 Comments
…terms? This is actually important — it will open up a range of new choices … simple and clear, and match the cost and the value as closely as possible… is about support for the MySQL database and the popular variants of it. … than expected. They need a single source for services — not someone who’s …
