Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.16-22.0 on October 14, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.16, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.16-22.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the [...]
When Does InnoDB Update Table Statistics? (And When It Can Bite)
October 6, 2011 By 7 Comments
An InnoDB table statistics is used for JOIN optimizations and helping the MySQL optimizer choose the appropriate index for a query. If a table’s statistics or index cardinality becomes outdated, you might see queries which previously performed well suddenly show up on slow query log until InnoDB again updates the statistics. But when does InnoDB [...]
Percona Server 5.5.13-20.4 Stable Release
July 1, 2011 By 3 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.13-20.4 on July 1st, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.13, Percona Server Percona Server 5.5.13-20.4 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 [...]
Shard-Query turbo charges Infobright community edition (ICE)
May 6, 2011 By 23 Comments
Shard-Query is an open source tool kit which helps improve the performance of queries against a MySQL database by distributing the work over multiple machines and/or multiple cores. This is similar to the divide and conquer approach that Hive takes in combination with Hadoop. Shard-Query applies a clever approach to parallelism which allows it to [...]
Modeling MySQL Capacity by Measuring Resource Consumptions
March 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
There are many angles you can look at the system to predict in performance, the model baron has published for example is good for measuring scalability of the system as concurrency growths. In many cases however we’re facing a need to answer a question how much load a given system can handle when load is [...]
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 5th
March 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What’s new this week in Percona Server:
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, February 26th
February 27, 2011 By 5 Comments
Percona Server has a new logo:
Percona Server 5.1.49-rel12.0
September 15, 2010 By 6 Comments
Dear Community, Starting with this release, we introduce a new release model for Percona Server. From now on, we will have both Stable and Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates will introduce new features not yet available in Stable releases. Along with new features, our new 5.1.49-12.0 RC contains a couple of patches from the Facebook-MySQL [...]
Percona Server 5.1.49-rel11.3
September 10, 2010 By 1 Comment
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.49-rel11.3 is now available for download. The changes in this release include: New features Percona Server 5.1.49-rel11.3 is based on MySQL 5.1.49. A new variable was introduced: innodb_use_sys_stats_table. If ON, the table’s statistics are stored statically in the internal table SYS_STATS. The table is populated with the ANALYZE TABLE command. [...]
Introducing tcprstat, a TCP response time tool
August 31, 2010 By 13 Comments
Ignacio Nin and I (mostly Ignacio) have worked together to create tcprstat[1], a new tool that times TCP requests and prints out statistics on them. The output looks somewhat like vmstat or iostat, but we’ve chosen the statistics carefully so you can compute meaningful things about your TCP traffic. What is this good for? In [...]
