Attending MySQL Connect ? Do not miss our talks! Peter Zaitsev is doing “Optimizing MySQL Configuration” talk at 2:30 PM in Golden Gate 4 room Vadim Tkachenko is talking about “MySQL and Solid-State Drives: Usage and Tuning” at 4:00 PM in the same room. See you around !
What attendees are saying about Percona Live NYC ?
With Percona Live NYC right around the corner I decide some of attendees what did they like on the last year event and what they are looking forward to in 2012. Here are some responses I got. If you’ve attended in 2011 or planning to join us in 2012 please feel free to comment with [...]
Great Talks on Percona Live,NY!, Free Pass opportunity inside
You surely have heard about Percona Live,NY taking place October 1-2 in New York, you however might have been wondering what kind of talks you would see on this event and why would should you attend. The day one of this event is Tutorial day, which is long (half to a full day) presentations which [...]
Meet Percona at Southeast Linux Fest
Percona will be at Southeast Linux Fest tomorrow and Saturday. We’re supporting the event, and we hope to meet you there. If you’ve never been, this is a great regional show that’s grown enormously in the last few years. Peter and I will both be speaking: Peter about optimizing MySQL configuration, and I will talk [...]
Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool
I’m proud to announce the GA release of version 2.1 of Percona Toolkit. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL. With this release we introduce a new version of pt-online-schema-change, a tool that enables you to ALTER large tables with no blocking or downtime. As you know, MySQL locks tables for [...]
Speaking at POSSCON
I’m speaking at POSSCON in Columbia,SC next week (March 28). My talk will be about Open Source software Percona Produces – Percona Server, Percona Xtrabackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster. If you want to get a birds eye view about Open Source software Percona has created this is a great talk to attend. We’re also [...]
Index Condition Pushdown in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5 and its performance impact
I have been working with Peter in preparation for the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. We are taking a look at and benchmarking optimizer enhancements one by one. So in the same way this blog post is aimed at a new optimizer enhancement Index Condition Pushdown (ICP). Its available [...]
MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
Congratulations to Monty Program and the many community contributors for releasing the GA version of MariaDB 5.3. We were in our annual all-staff meeting last week, so we are a little slow to blog about this and acknowledge the great work that has gone into MariaDB. Better late than never, I hope. Before I discuss [...]
Last chance for a discount on Percona Live DC!
In just over a week, we’ll be running a Percona Live MySQL conference in the nation’s capital, in a beautiful modern conference facility that has its own Metro rail stop. And for a limited time, you can save 20% with this discount code: PerLiveDC. If you’re in the DC area and you use MySQL, this [...]
Understand InnoDB spin waits, win a Percona Live ticket
It’s Friday again (so soon!) and time for our TGIF contest, to give away a free ticket to Percona Live London. Before we do that, though, just what in the world does this output from SHOW INNODB STATUS mean?
1 | Mutex spin waits 5870888, rounds 19812448, OS waits 375285 |
To understand this text, you have to understand how InnoDB handles mutexes. It tries a [...]

