We’re very pleased with community support for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We’ve got wonderful speakers providing content… conference which you surely should not miss: Pythian is stepping in to organize traditional MySQL Community Dinner event during Tutorial Day of… are free to attend (registration needed) whenever you’re attending MySQL Conference and Expo or not. Furthermore Birds of the Feather…
Post: Community events around Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Post: A note about Pythian
April 17, 2008 By 4 Comments
… we’re somewhat competing businesses this is indeed only somewhat. Pythian focuses on Remote DBA with long term commitments while we…. Pythian is able to provide services for number of databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL) while we provide services for number of full MySQL… this office are some noisy servers we use for tests. Pythian on other hand has most of employees in the offices…
Post: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
March 26, 2008 By 10 Comments
… like Percona, Pythian, Proven Scaling, Open Query. All of these companies should offer more personal professional services than MySQL and would be more open to customize services. All by Pythian are also lead by seasoned MySQL experts – it… I’m not questioning level of MySQL Expertise Pythian provide I am just pointing out to MySQL background of CEO of the companies…
Comment: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
April 4, 2008 By 10 Comments
… do take issue with the idea that Pythian‘s isn’t led by seasoned MySQL leadership. What am I, chopped liver? 
I hope you don’t mind if I share some Pythian trivia to… heard of). All of those happily paid a Pythian invoice this month. Our two Mysql team leads are Sheeri Cabral (everyone knows…
Comment: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
April 4, 2008 By 10 Comments
… provide MySQL Services and I mentioned Pythian, your employer among them. I chose to mention some of them are founded by seasoned MySQL experts and Pythian is not ? So what ? We can also say Proven Scaling and Pythian is lead by…
Comment: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
April 4, 2008 By 10 Comments
… stating facts that are not correct. Firstly, the structure at Pythian is very flat and cooperative — if you can’t get… the CEO, he *is* well-versed in MySQL. True, he was not a MySQL employee as yourself or Jeremy was, but really you’re just being elitist, and that’s completely unfair to Pythian…
Comment: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
April 5, 2008 By 10 Comments
… the my roots with MySQL are not that shallow; Pythian‘s services for MySQL launched the same year you joined MySQL in 2002. That’s all. If your point was that as the CEO I am not also Pythian‘s leading MySQL…
Comment: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
April 4, 2008 By 10 Comments
Peter, you say “All by Pythian are also lead by seasoned MySQL experts” Pythian has over 60 DBAs and while there are many seasoned Oracle experts, I can tell you firsthand that there are seasoned MySQL and SQL Server experts as well. The teams that support MySQL are led by seasoned MySQL experts.
Comment: xtrabackup-0.9.5rc
October 26, 2009 By 13 Comments
… older versions of MySQL, upgrading might fix your problems if you have version more than a few months old. Pythian has clients on Percona’s build of MySQL and the official MySQL builds, and we use both… backup is very expensive) — the numbers are here: http://www.pythian.com/news/4177/taste-test-innobackup-vs-xtrabackup
Comment: Watch out for your CRON jobs
October 19, 2009 By 19 Comments
… be converted to MySQL Events. Obviously if there are actions outside MySQL, it’s not useful as a MySQL Event. Pythian actually mitigates this…
