May 25, 2013

My Sessions at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013

April 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment

As is typical at the beginning of every April, many of us who submitted talks to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo are wondering why we submitted so many.  I had 3 official talks selected, including one that is a 6-hour tutorial, as well as a BoF.  Here’s the highlights: Percona XtraDB Cluster / [...]

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InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

March 4, 2013 By 7 Comments

This is part 2 in a 3 part series. In part 1, we took a quick look at some initial configuration of InnoDB full-text search and discovered a little bit of quirky behavior; here, we are going to run some queries and compare the result sets. Our hope is that the one of two things [...]

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Why do we care about MySQL Performance at High Concurrency?

February 26, 2013 By 9 Comments

In many MySQL Benchmarks we can see performance compared with rather high level of concurrency. In some cases reaching 4,000 or more concurrent threads which hammer databases as quickly as possible resulting in hundreds or even thousands concurrently active queries. The question is how common is it in production ? The typical metrics to use [...]

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Amazon Web Services and HP Keynotes at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo

February 14, 2013 By 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Deadline Near for BOFs and Lightning Talk Submissions for Percona Live MySQL Conference

February 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

The deadline is fast approaching to submit proposals for the Birds of a Feather Sessions (BOFs) and the Lightning Talks (presented during the Wednesday Evening Networking Reception) for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013. Applications for the DotOrg Pavilion close soon as well. The deadline is February 24th for all three opportunities so [...]

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Feature in details: Incremental state transfer after a node crash in Percona XtraDB Cluster

January 31, 2013 By 2 Comments

With our newest release of Percona XtraDB Cluster, I would like to highlight a very nice ability to recovery a node and bring it back to the cluster with an incremental transfer after a crash. This feature was available even in previous release, but now I want to give some details. So, MySQL crashes from [...]

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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 [...]

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Initial Keynote Speakers for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & the MySQL Community Awards

January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment

I’m pleased to announce the initial list of keynote speakers for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo, April 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. The conference promises great content with over 90 speakers in more than 110 sessions, 15 tutorials, and multiple keynotes. The MySQL Community Awards 2013 are also now accepting nominations. And do [...]

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FOSDEM 2013: MySQL & Friends Devroom CfP is open !

November 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

2013 is near… and so is the next FOSDEM edition ! This year again, MySQL will be represented by its Community. If you want to discuss with friends of MySQL it’s the place to be in February ! Like every year, FOSDEM takes place the first week-end of February in Brussels. We will again have [...]

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Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Part 1

November 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I was honored to be asked to be a member of the committee for the “big” MySQL conference: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 in Santa Clara, CA.  Personally, I’ve been attending this conference for 6 or 7 years and missing it only when my wife was pregnant with a due date in April [...]

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