Attending MySQL Connect ? Do not miss our talks! Peter Zaitsev is doing “Optimizing MySQL Configuration” talk at 2:30 PM in Golden Gate 4 room Vadim Tkachenko is talking about “MySQL and Solid-State Drives: Usage and Tuning” at 4:00 PM in the same room. See you around !
What attendees are saying about Percona Live NYC ?
September 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
With Percona Live NYC right around the corner I decide some of attendees what did they like on the last year event and what they are looking forward to in 2012. Here are some responses I got. If you’ve attended in 2011 or planning to join us in 2012 please feel free to comment with [...]
Data compression in InnoDB for text and blob fields
May 30, 2012 By 2 Comments
Have you wanted to compress only certain types of columns in a table while leaving other columns uncompressed? While working on a customer case this week I saw an interesting problem where a table had many heavily utilized TEXT fields with some read queries exceeding 500MB (!!), and stored in a 100GB table. In this [...]
Speaking at POSSCON
March 23, 2012 By 1 Comment
I’m speaking at POSSCON in Columbia,SC next week (March 28). My talk will be about Open Source software Percona Produces – Percona Server, Percona Xtrabackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster. If you want to get a birds eye view about Open Source software Percona has created this is a great talk to attend. We’re also [...]
Last chance for a discount on Percona Live DC!
January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In just over a week, we’ll be running a Percona Live MySQL conference in the nation’s capital, in a beautiful modern conference facility that has its own Metro rail stop. And for a limited time, you can save 20% with this discount code: PerLiveDC. If you’re in the DC area and you use MySQL, this [...]
Understand InnoDB spin waits, win a Percona Live ticket
September 2, 2011 By 2 Comments
It’s Friday again (so soon!) and time for our TGIF contest, to give away a free ticket to Percona Live London. Before we do that, though, just what in the world does this output from SHOW INNODB STATUS mean?
1 | Mutex spin waits 5870888, rounds 19812448, OS waits 375285 |
To understand this text, you have to understand how InnoDB handles mutexes. It tries a [...]
Win a free ticket to Percona Live London!
August 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Win a free ticket to Percona Live London on October 24-25! Watch @percona on Twitter, and retweet our TGIF contest tweet to enter. We’ll pick a random retweet and give away a free ticket each week. If you don’t win this time, try again, or register and get the early-bird discount (but don’t wait too long: it expires [...]
Percona turns 5 years old
August 1, 2011 By 11 Comments
It’s August 1st, 2011, and five years ago on or about this date (who can remember clearly?) Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko founded Percona. What’s happened in the last five years?
How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Many of the prominent companies in the MySQL ecosystem are Percona customers, including hardware manufacturers, software developers, hosted service providers, and appliance developers. We perform paid and unpaid research on their products, and we publish blog posts related to their products or services. Independence and objectivity are core Percona values. How do we balance the [...]
Video: The InnoDB Storage Engine for MySQL
March 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
(This is a cross post from percona.tv – the home of percona material in video form.) Last month I gave a presentation at the PHP UK Conference on the InnoDB storage engine. I was a last minute speaker, and I want to thank them for the time-slot and their hospitality at short notice.
