May 18, 2013

10 years of MySQL User Conferences

April 11, 2013 By 6 Comments

In preparing for this month’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, I’ve been reminiscing about the annual MySQL User Conference’s history – the 9 times it previously took place in its various reincarnations – and there are a lot of good things, fun things to remember. 2003 was the year that marked the first MySQL user conference [...]

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Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.2 now available

April 10, 2013 By 8 Comments

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.2 on April 10, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.30, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of [...]

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Announcing Percona Server for MySQL 5.1.68 -14.5

March 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.1.68 -14.5 on March 15, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.68, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.68 -14.5 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open source and free, all [...]

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Announcing Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.10-60.2

March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.10-60.2 on March 14, 2013.  (Downloads are available here and from the experimental Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.6.10, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.10-60.2 is the third ALPHA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the [...]

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MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark

March 11, 2013 By 7 Comments

So far most of the benchmarks posted about MySQL 5.6 use the sysbench OLTP workload.  I wanted to test a set of queries which, unlike sysbench, utilize joins.  I also wanted an easily reproducible set of data which is more rich than the simple sysbench table.  The Star Schema Benchmark (SSB) seems ideal for this. [...]

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Announcing Percona Server for MySQL version 5.1.67-14.4

March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL version 5.1.67-14.4 on March 8, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.67, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.67-14.4 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details [...]

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Announcing Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.1

March 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.30-30.1 on March 7, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.30, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.30-30.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of [...]

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InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

March 4, 2013 By 7 Comments

This is part 2 in a 3 part series. In part 1, we took a quick look at some initial configuration of InnoDB full-text search and discovered a little bit of quirky behavior; here, we are going to run some queries and compare the result sets. Our hope is that the one of two things [...]

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Announcing Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0

February 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0 on February 26th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.29, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.29-30.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details [...]

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Percona Welcomes MySQL 5.6!

February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment

MySQL 5.6 was made generally available as a production-ready solution earlier this month. This release comes about 2 years after MySQL 5.5 was released, but MySQL 5.6 contains improvements started long before that – for example, work on the Innodb Full Text Search project was started over 6 years ago, in addition with many optimizer [...]

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