Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.18-23.0 on December 19th, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.18-23.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona ‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.
December 8, 2011 By 38 Comments
One of the more common questions I get asked is which Linux distribution I would use for a MySQL database server. Bearing the responsibility for someone else’s success means I should advise something that is stable, reliable, easy to manage and has plenty of resources available online. It should also allow running MySQL without too [...]
MySQL Life Cycle. Your Feedback is needed.
November 18, 2011 By 6 Comments
When I started with MySQL 3.22 I would start running MySQL from early beta (if not alpha) and update MySQL the same date as release would hit the web. Since that time I matured and so did MySQL ecosystem. MySQL is powering a lot more demanding and business critical applications now than 12 years ago [...]
Percona Welcomes Patrick Crews
October 3, 2011 By 2 Comments
I am very happy to welcome Patrick Crews to the Percona development team. Patrick joins Percona at a very exciting time for the development team. We are getting regular releases of Percona Server and Percona Xtrabackup out the door, we have been heavily using the Jenkins continuous integration system to maintain and improve the quality of [...]
Percona XtraBackup 1.6.3
September 23, 2011 By 5 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.3 on 22 September, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona Xtrabackup. If the innodb_file_per_table server option is being used and DDL operations, TRUNCATE TABLE, DROP/CREATE the_same_table or ALTER statements on InnoDB tables are [...]
Percona Server 5.5.14-20.5
August 17, 2011 By 4 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.14-20.5 on August 12, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.14, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.14-20.5 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all [...]
What’s the recommended MySQL version?
August 15, 2011 By 24 Comments
I see this message on our forums, and I think it’s a great question: “Which version of Percona Server is currently recommended?” It’s really the same question as “Which version of MySQL is currently recommended?” I’ll respond here and then post a link in the forum as a reply. In my opinion, it’s important to [...]
Different flavors of InnoDB flushing
January 13, 2011 By 9 Comments
In my recent benchmarks, such as this one about the Virident TachIon card, I used different values for innodb_buffer_pool_size, like 13GB, 52GB, and 144GB, for testing the tpcc-mysql database with size 100G. This was needed in order to test different memory/dataset size ratios. But why is it important, and how does it affect how InnoDB works [...]
Announcing Percona Live: San Francisco February 16th
January 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
Today we’re announcing Percona Live – a one day event to be held at the Bently Reserve on February 16th in San Francisco. Live is our way of showcasing some of the awesome work that has been going into MySQL recently – and the theme of this event is Beyond MySQL 5.1. Our first guest [...]
Data Corruption, DRBD and story of bug
November 29, 2010 By 6 Comments
Working with customer, I faced pretty nasty bug, which is actually not rare situation , but in this particular there are some lessons I would like to share. The case is pretty much described in bug 55981, or in pastebin. Everything below is related to InnoDB-plugin/XtraDB, but not to regular InnoDB ( i.e in MySQL [...]
