May 25, 2012

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

… to Oracle’s MySQL on another platform, it will work seamlessly. Why is Percona involved? Because providing quality server builds is a substantial… do right, and Percona has that expertise, as we’ve proven by providing our own Percona Server variant of the MySQL server. We have a history of improving the MySQL server and finding and…

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

…by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly  by Kenny Gryp …opportunity for social networking and community building. Beside the comprehensive conference program, there…”, open source experts like Kenny Gryp (Percona), Mark Burgess (CFEnigine), Kris Buytaert (inuits) …

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

Post: Stripped MySQL builds, the optimization that isn't

I usually tell people to use official MySQL builds from MySQL, or from their operating system distribution if they don’t … use third-party builds such as Percona‘s.) Sometimes, though, people want to create their own builds, or use a build that is “optimized… a stripped build only makes that harder to do. Besides, it’s far too easy to subtly mess up a MySQL build and…

Post: Profiling MySQL stored routines

… analyze queries in the slow query log generated by our mysql build running with long_query_time=0, get the slowest ones… Community tree based Percona MySQL builds since it is part of MySQL community version ever since 5.0.37 (note – not all Percona builds are done on Community tree) – comes into play. Let me show you how this works: mysql> set profiling=1…

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 well… to you, too!) If you would like Percona to create custom MySQL features or builds for you, please contact us. Why We Don…, though. Percona is not the ultimate upstream source. Community contributions ought to be going into the MySQL codebase, not the Percona codebase. Percona‘s…

Post: 5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries

… 20th build of MySQL server with Percona patches. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5… has changed to -<mysql version>-<percona build version>....rpm Example: MySQL-server-percona-5.0.87-b20.29.rhel5…

Post: 5.0.86-build19 Percona binaries

build of MySQL server with Percona patches is available. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL… http://www.percona.com/mysql/5.0.86-b19/ There is Debian packages repository available since Build 19. To install MySQL with Percona patches with…

Post: Scaling problems still exist in MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5

MySQL 5.5 and Percona Server 5.5 do not solve all scalability problems even … see the number is 2.3 for Percona Server 5.1 and around 6 for Percona Server 5.5 which is way…_spin,pfs_rw_lock_s_lock_fu nc,btr_search_build_page_hash_index,btr_search_info_update_slow,btr_search…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 1.6

…) Ported XtraBackup to MySQL 5.1.55, MySQL 5.5.9, Percona Server 5.1.55-12.6, and Percona Server 5.5.9… is now based on Percona Server 5.5, rather than MySQL 5.5. Support for building against InnoDB plugin in MySQL 5.1 has…, please see the following links: Downloads – binary distributions and Percona Software Repositories Installation instructions Consulting, support, training, and custom development…