May 25, 2012

Post: Introducing Zend DBi as a MySQL Replacement on IBM i

…. The result is Zend DBi. It is basically a renamed build of MySQL for IBM i. It’s a 100% compatible… Percona involved? Because providing quality server builds is a substantial engineering effort that requires a lot of expertise to do right, and Percona has that expertise, as we’ve proven by providing our own Percona Server variant of the MySQL…

Comment: Announcing Percona Server 5.5.19-24.0

Jonathan – It was a one-off experimental build for Mac OS X. We might support Mac OS as a first-class binary package platform at some point in the future. OTOH, Percona Server compiled from sources on Mac OS should work just fine, although obviously this packaging option is not as convenient.

Post: Percona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany

…the OSDC is the opportunity for social networking and community building. Beside the comprehensive conference program, there will be much …main topic “Agile Infrastructures”, open source experts like Kenny Gryp (Percona), Mark Burgess (CFEnigine), Kris Buytaert (inuits) or Kristian Köhntopp (booking…

Comment: Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 released!

Yep, much appreciated – thanks! Btw, is Percona looking to create a build for the 5.6.x series? We are trying to decide between Percona 5.5.x vs Mysql 5.6.x (assuming that goes GA by summer) for a new project and would like to know your thinking. (FWIW – we have a support contract w/ Percona) AD

Comment: Testing Percona Replication Manager (prm) with Vagrant

Is the PRM based on Percona‘s XraDB cluster? I think I might have blogged a HOWTO about building such a system. http://www.mysqlfanboy.com/2012/02/the-full-monty-version-2-3/

Post: Percona builds with patches

… many requests for Debian binary packages in our announcement of Percona builds with custom patchsets, we decided to play with it and…

Post: How Percona Develops Open-Source Software

… moment are the following: Percona patches, which are included in our own MySQL builds and then in OurDelta builds and perhaps others as… features into our Percona builds. Firstly, customers get to choose whether they want us to do this. Secondly, the builds are designed to… to you, too!) If you would like Percona to create custom MySQL features or builds for you, please contact us. Why We…

Post: Percona's patches spread to a wider audience

Percona‘s patches are now available to a wider audience via OurDelta, a community effort to provide  builds with features (Percona patches, Google… get a build that you know authoritatively came from us and was built by us.  The Percona patches and builds represent our… trying these things out.  The Percona builds and patches are conservative (except for the -highperf builds, which are experimental) and won’t…

Post: 5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries

… the 20th build of MySQL server with Percona patches. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based… to --<percona build version>....rpm Example: MySQL-server-percona-5.0.87-b20.29.rhel5… the build 20 MySQL server with Percona patches is available in Percona RPM repository via YUM. To make it working add a file Percona

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

…’ll usually capture two of these. It looks like this: [percona@db1 ~]$ mysqladmin ext -ri10 +———————————–+———————-+ | Variable_name | Value | +———————————–+———————-+ | Aborted_clients | 205174… no other technique that approaches the amount of information a Percona build can give you. Having found the desired information about the…