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 [...]
Verifying backup integrity with CHECK TABLES
February 1, 2012 By 4 Comments
An attendee to Espen’s recent webinar asked how to check tables for corruption. This kind of ties into my recent post on InnoDB’s handling of corrupted pages, because the best way to check for corruption is with CHECK TABLES, but if a page is corrupt, InnoDB will crash the server to prevent access to the [...]
How Percona Server handles data corruption more gracefully
January 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
I got a question a while ago about how Percona Server handles corrupted data more gracefully than the standard MySQL server from Oracle. The short version is that it won’t crash the whole server. With standard MySQL from Oracle, if any page of data in InnoDB is found to be corrupt, the entire instance will [...]
Connecting orphaned .ibd files
May 13, 2011 By 19 Comments
There are two ways InnoDB can organize tablespaces. First is when all data, indexes and system buffers are stored in a single tablespace. This is typicaly one or several ibdata files. A well known innodb_file_per_table option brings the second one. Tables and system areas are split into different files. Usually system tablespace is located in [...]
Battery Learning still problem many years after
February 10, 2011 By 7 Comments
The performance problems caused by battery auto learning go many years back. We wrote about it, other people from MySQL Community too. The situation did not get better, at least not with Dell RAID controllers, H700 and H800 have the same problem too. At the same time situation got worse as a lot more people [...]
Percona at WebConf Riga 2010
October 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My colleague Aleksandr Kuzminsky will be speaking at WebConf Riga 2010 next month on XtraBackup: Hot Backups and More and Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables. WebConf is the first big conference of its kind in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and we are very happy to be participating. In addition to Aleksandr’s [...]
Percona talks at OpenSQL Camp this weekend
August 19, 2010 By 3 Comments
Four Perconians (perconites?) will be at OpenSQL Camp in Sankt Augustin, Germany this weekend presenting talks on: Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what XtraDB — InnoDB on steroids Xtrabackup for MySQL If you would like to stop by and say hello, we are Aleksandr, Istvan, Morgan [...]
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 [...]
Presentations Announcement: 2010 O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo
April 29, 2010 By 4 Comments
The Percona team participated at this year’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo held April 12-15, 2010 in Santa Clara, California. We gave a lot of talks on…
Author: Peter Zaitsev, Justin Swanhart
MySQL Graphing and Trending with Cacti
Author: Baron Schwartz
Percona‘s Performance and Feature Enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB
Author: Bill Schuler, Baron Schwartz…a Bottleneck
Author: Morgan Tocker
XtraBackup Hot Backups and More
Author: Vadim Tkachenko, Morgan Tocker
You can also read more about this conference on Percona site.
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 [...]
