May 25, 2012

Comment: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool

… at DotDeb.org led me to percona and I have a few questions: 1. Will the Percona Toolkit version just released work… better) with a Percona type version of MySQL – ie one of Percona‘s “improved” versions of MySQL (that is what Percona does, isn… help and information. I just made the MySQL, apache2 and php updates available to Debian Squeeze avalable on DotDeb.org, and…

Comment: Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 released!

… idea which upcoming version of Percona Server will incorporate this important bugfix: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=61209 We’ve…

Comment: How FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK works with Innodb Tables

… (Percona, MariaDB, MySQL) also provide a solution. See “START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT INNODB SNAPSHOT” in https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note…

Post: Percona Welcomes Justin Swanhart

… welcome Justin Swanhart to our team of consultants. Before joining Percona, Justin worked as a MySQL DBA at Gazillion, Yahoo, and… in MySQL 5.1 as well as instrumentation-for-php, a suite of PHP classes for easing the implementation of instrumentation in…

Post: Percona at PHP Quebec 09

Percona presented two talks at PHP Quebec last week – one on A Tour of MySQL High … the quick-wins that can be found by using the Percona patches. Unfortunately, the one thing that I forgot to mention…

Post: Dot-Org Pavilion at the Percona Live MySQL Conference

… MySQL users, such as Nginx, PHPMyAdmin, Drupal, Jenkins, PHP, and so on? Percona just published the application form for dot-org groups to have a free expo hall booth in the Percona Live MySQL Conference in April. Please submit your applications now…

Post: Want a discount to Percona Live?

We’ve given discount coupon codes to all of our Percona Live sponsors, so watch the Twitter tag #perconalive to find… OmniTI Sphinx Tokutek We Build Pages Zmanda DaniWeb New York PHP PalominoDB

Post: Percona sessions at the MySQL conference

Many Percona employees will be at the 2010 MySQL conference. We’ll …: Performance and Feature Enhancements to MySQL and InnoDB Fernando Ipar: PHP Object-Relational Mapping Libraries In Action Baron Schwartz: Read-Write…

Post: mk-query-digest, query comments and the query cache

… instrumentation application for the LAMP stack. Instrumentation-for-php collects information about the PHP process such as wall time, cpu time, mysql… from this test. You can enable query cache stripping in Percona Server at runtime: mysql> set global query_cache_strip_comments… in your queries, consider using Percona Server and turning on the –strip-query-cache-comments feature. * Percona Server 11.1 still has…

Post: Drop table performance

… reports: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=51325 and http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=56332.) It may not sound… implemented “background table drop”, which is available in Percona Server 5.1.56 and Percona Server 5.5.10. Also, looking at….6.2. (Disclaimer: The “innodb_lazy_drop_table” feature in Percona Server and this benchmark are sponsored by a Well Known…