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An update on Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012

November 30, 2011 By 2 Comments

We announced a while back that we were going to continue the traditional MySQL conference in Santa Clara, because O’Reilly wasn’t doing it anymore. But we haven’t given an update in a while. Here’s the current status: We created a conference committee. We created a conference website that allows people to create an account and [...]

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Tutorial Insights for Percona Live, London

August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

We have a great line up of Tutorials on Percona Live, London. I hand picked number of them after seeing outstanding speaker Performance in other Places. Let me tell in little bit more details about people we have invited and their talks. Yoshinori Matsunobu Talk on Linux Hardware and Optimizations for MySQL at Oreilly MySQL [...]

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Recover BLOB fields

July 1, 2010 By 4 Comments

For a long time long types like BLOB, TEXT were not supported by Percona InnoDB Recovery Tool. The reason consists in a special way InnoDB stores BLOBs. An InnoDB table is stored in a clustered index called PRIMARY. It must exist even if a user hasn’t defined the primary index. The PRIMARY index pages are [...]

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Virident tachIOn: New player on Flash PCI-E cards market

June 15, 2010 By 19 Comments

(Note: The review was done as part of our consulting practice, but is totally independent and fully reflects our opinion) In my talk on MySQL Conference and Expo 2010 “An Overview of Flash Storage for Databases” I mentioned that most likely there are other players coming soon. I actually was not aware about any real [...]

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Seeking volunteers for Percona documentation

April 29, 2010 By 5 Comments

Percona wants to upgrade our documentation to improve its readability and to make it more useful for you, our clients and partners. We are so busy developing software and handling your needs that we have trouble finishing all the documentation! We think you can help. Helping us will give you a chance to interact closely [...]

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Percona sessions at the MySQL conference

March 15, 2010 By 6 Comments

Many Percona employees will be at the 2010 MySQL conference. We’ll be giving a lot of informative technical talks on various topics. Here’s a list: Morgan Tocker, Baron Schwartz: Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems Peter Zaitsev: Scaling Applications with Caching, Sharding and Replication Baron Schwartz: EXPLAIN Demystified Vadim Tkachenko: An Overview of Flash Storage [...]

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Report from OSCON 2008

July 27, 2008 By 7 Comments

So I’m back from OSCON 2008. As usually it is fun conference to attend. Though I could only come for couple of days (Wed/Thu) as things are too busy here. Same as previous year I would note the conference is not as much backend and high performance focused as MySQL Conference or even Velocity, though [...]

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Speaking on Velocity and Book Signing

June 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment

I should have written about it a while ago but I never had a change. I’m speaking at Velocity conference taking place in the Bay Area 23-24 of June. At the same conference we will have a book signing event for our book High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition which is finally in printing and should [...]

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Meet MySQL Performance Blog guys on MySQL Users Conference

April 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Percona, the company maintaining MySQL Performance Blog has a good presence on the conference this year. We have me (Peter), Vadim, Aurimas, Baron and Andrew attending the show. Alexey had to stay because he could not get Visa in time and Maciek is staying to be able to reliably service emergencies arising with our customers.

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EuroOSCON 2006 – High Performance FullText Search

September 22, 2006 By 4 Comments

I’m now back from EuroOSCON 2006 which was the reason I was not posting for a while. Pretty interesting event, even though it looks like it is getting less geeky compared to OSCON in US I visited two years ago – a lot of presentations now shifted to philosophical, political and business issues. I however [...]

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