… remind everyone about the next big Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 in Santa Clara, Californa on April 22-25, 2013… pretaining to being a MySQL DBA and would be an excellent choice for anyone either just getting started in MySQL, or who has… well rounded and represents where the community is today and where it is headed in the future (and, of course, encourages as…
Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Tutorial Selection Complete
December 3, 2012 By 1 Comment
Post: Two Types of MySQL Users
May 10, 2010 By 5 Comments
… of MySQL Community looks a lot larger than it is. Think about this – you might think most relevant players in MySQL community participated in MySQL… lot but it is just a drop in the total amount of MySQL users which is in hundreds of thousands to the millions… important group of users. Because of them MySQL got popularity and market position it has today. Users what want boring database What…
Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: The talks I want to see
February 12, 2013 By 4 Comments
… I’d choose today: Tutorial Day I’m giving my own all-day tutorial on Percona XtraDB Cluster / Galera in Practice, so… about new Xtrabackup feature sets. Internals of new InnoDB features in MySQL 5.6 - (Vadim Tkachenko, Percona) – Tuning Innodb is a huge…. State of the Art for MySQL Multi-Master Replication - (Robert Hodges, Continuent) – Robert is the master in discussing the pros and cons…
Post: What Linux Distribution do you use to run MySQL ?
December 14, 2012 By 17 Comments
In the last poll we discovered some 90% of responders run MySQL on Linux which is not totally a surprise. Number of… what specific Linux distributions are most popular in MySQL space hence this is the poll for today. Please answer what Linux Distribution you… your Linux distribution is missing please ether select the closest in the list or add the comment so I can add…
Post: 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
… Saver pricing ends today, January 22. Confirmed Keynote Presenters We are pleased to announce the first three Percona Live MySQL Conference and… database and application engineering experience in his keynote entitled “Thinking Small About Big Data — How MySQL Can Thrive in the World of Massive… Live MySQL Conference and Expo are available now. Super Saver rates end today, January 22, so act now. If you are interested in…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 released today with beta support for MySQL 5.6
January 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
….1.8 was released today and the new version comes with some pretty cool news: Beta support for MySQL 5.6 (which as you might know is also in beta). In addition to various bug fixes… handles this correctly. Fixed bug 1015590: pt-mysql-summary doesn’t handle renamed variables in Percona Server 5.5. Some renamed variables…
Post: MySQL Performance Blog was down today
November 21, 2009 By 3 Comments
MySQL Performance Blog (and percona.com too) were down today because the switch in our rack died completely. It took a while to…
Post: Percona's "Developer Training for MySQL" is now available via Live Virtual Training
July 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Today, Percona announces that Live Virtual Training is now an option … month of August, you can enroll in one of the LVT sessions for Developer Training for MySQL and save over 35%. The… offer, go to our online store and purchase a seat today. We will announce availability of other LVT offerings as they…
Post: Site was down today, support and web hosting.
August 31, 2007 By 27 Comments
… was running) but I do not remember significant downtime, until today we went down for few hours. All this time the…. This time I got less lucky and in about a week after we moved MySQL Performance Blog to the new server, it… was the case in MySQL and Tom Basil had a magic of calming down most of rare offended customers. In our Consulting Work…
Post: CentOS 5.8 users: your UTF-8 data is in peril with Perl MySQL
February 22, 2013 By 3 Comments
… things. First, DBD::mysql v3.0007 was released in September 2006, but this very old problem still exists today because CentOS 5 is…. In conclusion, if you Run CentOS 5 Have UTF-8 data in MySQL Use Perl to access that data Have not upgraded DBD::mysql (perl-DBD-MySQL) then your UTF-8 data is in peril…
