Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) was released over a year ago and since then there has been tremendous interest and adoption. There’s plenty of talks that explain the fundamentals of PXC, but we’re starting to reach a threshold where it’s easier to find folks with PXC in production and such the need …
Post: Call for papers: Percona Live London
June 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… step up and volunteer to present your unique insights into MySQL and MySQL-related technologies either as a keynote, tutorial or breakout… sponsors. This is the showcase event for Europe’s growing MySQL community of developers, business managers, technology evangelists, DBAs and entrepreneurs…
Comment: Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 first Release Candidate now available
June 18, 2013 By 3 Comments
does/will Percona 5.6 include handlersocket? I assume it’s including the memcache nosql interface in mysql 5.6, correct?
Comment: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL
June 17, 2013 By 3 Comments
Why does the mysql client says it’s 5.1.70? Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 138 Server version: 5.1.70-rel14.7-log Percona Server (GPL), 14.7, Revision 572
Comment: Performance Schema overhead
June 12, 2013 By 22 Comments
Great test and report Vadim! I think the performance schema will be a great addition to MySQL once it’s more established. Just starting with MySQL after retiring from handling oracle databases – now volunteering 
Thanks for sharing.
Comment: Converting Character Sets
June 12, 2013 By 22 Comments
… correct. There was no truncation: MEDIUMTEXT is bigger than TEXT. MySQL does this to make sure there’s *no* truncation, as explained in the manual – http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html “For…
Post: Implementing SchemaSpy in your MySQL environment
June 4, 2013 By 2 Comments
… need a Java driver for your database — I’m using the MySQL Connector/J Install the graphiz package Creating a mysql.properties file….10 sandbox: description=MySQL driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver connectionSpec=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:5610/schemaspy driverPath=/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar…
Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!
June 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
…, Percona Xtrabackup and Performance and Improvements and new Features in MySQL 5.6 Garrick Peterson, a member of Percona’s RemoteDBA… replication integrity And finally, Andrew Ferlitsch will share with how MySQL can be used to provide access to government data. The…… So register now! Please also join the Portland MySQL Meetup group for more MySQL-focused events in Portland If you love the…
Post: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL
June 10, 2013 By 3 Comments
….7 on June 10, 2013. A drop in replacement for MySQL, downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories… #1167109. Fixed the CVE-2012-5627 vulnerability, where an unprivileged MySQL account owner could perform brute-force password guessing attack on…. Bug fixed #1185040. Fixed the upstream bug #69379 which caused MySQL clients to return bogus error number for host-not-found…
Post: Migrating between MySQL schemas with Percona Xtrabackup
June 10, 2013 By 2 Comments
… create orig_old Load the schema into the target database: mysql orig_old < /tmp/orig.schema.sql Ensure innodb_import_table..._old Make sure that the files are owned by mysql: chown mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/orig_old/* For each table, run: ALTER TABLE…_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA=’orig’ AND ENGINE=’InnoDB’; EOF mysql -N -B <<'EOF' > import-ddl.sql SELECT CONCAT(‘ALTER TABLE…
