We are very pleased to announce the addition of HP and Amazon Web Services as keynote speakers for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo which is April 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. Amazon Web Services is sending Simone Brunozzi, Senior Technology Evangelist, who will speak on “Databases in the Cloud: Present and Future.” HP [...]
Amazon Web Services and HP Keynotes at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
February 14, 2013 By 1 Comment
Read/Write Splitting with PHP Webinar Questions Followup
January 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
Today I gave a presentation on “Read/Write Splitting with PHP” for Percona Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I answered as many as I could during the session, but here are [...]
New Keynote Speakers and Sponsors and Applications Open for DotOrg Pavilion for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I’m pleased to announce the first of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 keynote speakers and new sponsors including Amazon Web Services, Google, Clustrix, Scalebase, PalominoDB, Database Trends & Applications, and Linux Journal. We are also now accepting applications for the DotOrg Pavilion. Also, nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 MySQL [...]
Filling the tmp partition with persistent connections
August 6, 2012 By 14 Comments
The use of tmpfs/ramfs as /tmp partition is a common trick to improve the performance of on-disk temporary tables. Servers usually have less RAM than disk space so those kind of partitions are very limited in size and there are some cases were we can run out of space. Let’s see one example. We’re running [...]
On Character Sets and Disappearing Tables
June 21, 2012 By 1 Comment
The MySQL manual tells us that regardless of whether or not we use “SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0″ before making schema changes, InnoDB will not allow a column referenced by a foreign key constraint to be modified in such a way that the foreign key will reference a column with a mismatched data type. For instance, if we [...]
Migrating to XtraDB Cluster Webinar follow up questions
June 6, 2012 By 3 Comments
Thanks to all who attended my webinar today. The session was recorded and will be available to watch for free soon here. There were a lot of great questions asked during the session, so I’d like to take this opportunity to try to answer a few of them: Q: Is there an easy way to [...]
Percona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany
April 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona has 2 talks lined up at OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany: – Taking hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by Kenny Gryp Feel free to come and say Hi! On April 25 & 26, 2012 the Open Source Data Center Conference will invite experienced administrators and architects [...]
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 11 Comments
I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert your existing [...]
linux.conf.au 2012 roundup
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I spent last week at linux.conf.au in Ballarat, Victoria (that’s the Victoria in Australia, not wherever else there may be one) which is only a pleasant two hour drive from my home town of Melbourne (Australia, not Florida). I sent an email internally to our experts detailing bits of the conference that may interest them [...]
Improved InnoDB fast index creation
November 6, 2011 By 4 Comments
One of the serious limitations in the fast index creation feature introduced in the InnoDB plugin is that it only works when indexes are explicitly created using ALTER TABLE or CREATE INDEX. Peter has already blogged about it before, here I’ll just briefly reiterate other cases that might benefit from that feature: when ALTER TABLE [...]
