Nice to see this writeup on ZFS and MySQL. One question, why with 192GB of memory, did you limit the ARC…
Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - MySQL Webinar: June 5
… holistic fashion and help guide you towards asking the right questions when considering a new or upgraded HA deployment. This webinar…
Comment: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL available for download
… 2.1.2 version (see http://www.percona.com/forums/questions-discussions/percona-xtradb-cluster/10198-can-not-get-percona-xtradb…
Post: Percona Toolkit for MySQL Webinar Followup Questions
I didn’t have time to answer all of the questions during Wednesday’s MySQL webinar, “5 Percona Toolkit Tools That… Your Day,” but as promised, here are all of the questions and my answers. (A recording is available here.) Q: One…
Comment: Investigating MySQL Replication Latency in Percona XtraDB Cluster
Manish, Blog post comment is not the best place for asking questions specific to your case. I’d encourage you to ask the question on our forums instead http://www.percona.com/forums/questions-discussions/percona-xtradb-cluster
Post: More on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization
… by Dimitri Kravchuk, we have received a large number of questions on why the benchmark results in both posts look rather… were curious as well, so we tried to answer that question by retrying benchmarks on various combinations of hardware and dataset…
Post: Finally. How to verify if all MySQL records were recovered
After nearly every recovery case the same question arises: How many MySQL records were recovered and how many … lost. Until now there was no way to answer the question without manual investigation. As it turned out a small change…
Post: Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table
… of columns in MySQL?”. Before you read on, ponder those questions and come up with your own answers… and see if… cannot be greater than 64kb. The bit of code in question that comes into play around the maximum number of columns…
Comment: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)
… ’90s. (Think Netscape.) We are now re-raising those old questions about business practices, in yet a different way. “History — know…
Comment: Is Synchronous Replication right for your app?
@Serge – I’m starting to put together some ways to analyze query workloads with pt-query-digest that can start to answer some of these questions. Stay tuned for a future blog post on the subject.

