… might have heard that Oracle made the decision not to support MySQL for IBM i any longer. This is certainly understandable. However, there… for MySQL on the IBM i platform. Zend approached us to say that they want to ensure there’s a way forward for… is Zend DBi. It is basically a renamed build of MySQL for IBM i. It’s a 100% compatible drop-in replacement…
Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23
May 14, 2012 By 11 Comments
… and improvements. List of changes: Fixes merged from upstream (Codership-mysql) Support for MyISAM, now changes to MyISAM tables are replicated to other… from downloads area or from our repositories. For this release we will provides binaries for Ubuntu 12.04, they are coming soon… tracking system. Links: We provide tar.gz and RPM binaries for RedHat (CentOS, Oracle Linux) 5 and 6, and Debian packages…
Post: Community events around Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
… with community support for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We’ve got wonderful speakers providing content of phenomenal session lineup for the conference… sessions on Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, taking place Tuesday and Wednesday in the evening are free for anyone to atten.
Post: How We Got Here
April 9, 2012 By 6 Comments
… it goes beyond pure business. We see an ongoing need for MySQL-focused, inclusive, balanced, technical conferences that is not met anywhere… to our sponsors, speakers, attendees, committee members, and friends for your support, encouragement, and participation. We’ll see you in Santa Clara…
Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0 GA
April 4, 2012 By 11 Comments
… entire backup to restore a single table). Percona XtraBackup now supports streaming incremental backups. In previous versions streaming backups were performed… included as well. Support for compiling and running Percona XtraBackup against debug versions of InnoDB. This is only for very advanced users. The new features in Percona XtraBackup will be part of the topics at the upcoming Percona Live MySQL…
Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 5, 2012 By 17 Comments
… that our support contracts cover MariaDB as a first-class member of the MySQL family of databases. Finally, High Performance MySQL, Third Edition… to this list. For example, Percona Server has the same group commit fix, and MySQL 5.6 offers microsecond timestamp support, as well… a great development for MySQL users. Users now have more choice than ever — there are three great versions of MySQL that suit different…
Post: Join Optimizations in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5
April 4, 2012 By 2 Comments
… Hash Joins. Hash Join As I have told before MySQL has only supported one join algorithm and that is Nested Loop Join… as follows: MySQL 5.6 (2) is for MySQL 5.6 w/ buffer size 6M MariaDB 5.5 (2) is for MariaDB 5.5… for MySQL 5.6 becomes approximately equal to that of MySQL 5.5. MariaDB 5.5 is quite slow as compared to both MySQL…
Post: Troubleshooting MySQL Memory Usage
March 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
… 60 done Check for Table Cache Related Allocations There are cases when MySQL will allocate a lot of memory for table cache, especially… can’t be connected to any known resource use. For example for global memory leaks you would see memory usage continues to… and fixed. This is where your MySQL Support contract can be handy. Conclusion Understanding where MySQL can allocate memory can help us to…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool
April 5, 2012 By 9 Comments
… Toolkit. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL. With this release we introduce a new version of pt… tables with no blocking or downtime. As you know, MySQL locks tables for most ALTER operations, but pt-online-schema-change performs… tools rapidly, for example, to support new types of RAID controllers. Percona Toolkit is a hot topic at the upcoming MySQL Conference and…
Post: Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release
April 3, 2012 By 10 Comments
… Related talks: Tutorial on PL MySQL Conference Galera Synchronous Multi-Master Replication for MySQL. My talk on PL MySQL Conference Percona XtraDB Cluster: New…Oy company and Galera 2.x supports such new features as: Incremental State Transfer, especially useful for WAN deployments RSU, Rolling …
