May 21, 2013

Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: The talks I want to see

February 12, 2013 By 4 Comments

I’ve been woefully neglectful of my responsibilities to post regularly about Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 (PLCME 2013), but here’s some highlights of what I am planning to attend from the schedule.  Read to the very bottom for the chance to win a free full pass to the conference! When picking talks to attend, [...]

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Sphinx search performance optimization: multi-threaded search

January 16, 2013 By 6 Comments

Queries in MySQL, Sphinx and many other database or search engines are typically single-threaded. That is when you issue a single query on your brand new r910 with 32 CPU cores and 16 disks, the maximum that is going to be used to process this query at any given point is 1 CPU core and [...]

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Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters

January 15, 2013 By 9 Comments

One of the most common causes of a poor Sphinx search performance I find our customers face is misuse of search filters. In this article I will cover how Sphinx attributes (which are normally used for filtering) work, when they are a good idea to use and what to do when they are not, but [...]

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Full Text Search Webinar Questions Followup

August 24, 2012 By 5 Comments

I presented a webinar this week to give an overview of several Full Text Search solutions and compare their performance.  Even if you missed the webinar, you can register for it, and you’ll be emailed a link to the recording. During my webinar, a number of attendees asked some good questions.  Here are their questions and my [...]

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Updated Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup documentation

October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

We’ve just gone live with a new way of publishing and maintaining documentation for Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup. We are now using Sphinx to generate the documentation that we publish on the web site. Sphinx was originally created for the new Python documentation, and has won us over due to the simple markup, ease of [...]

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Introducing our Percona Live speakers

May 10, 2011 By 4 Comments

We have mostly finalized the Percona Live schedule at this point, and I thought I’d take a few minutes to introduce who’s going to be speaking and what they’ll cover. A brief explanation first: we’ve personally recruited the speakers, which is why it has been a slow process to finalize and get abstracts on the [...]

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Percona’s Sessions at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo

April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I just realized that we haven’t blogged a list of our sessions at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo (#mysqlconf) yet. Here is a hopefully complete list.

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Using Flexviews – part two, change data capture

March 25, 2011 By 26 Comments

In my previous post I introduced materialized view concepts. This post begins with an introduction to change data capture technology and describes some of the ways in which it can be leveraged for your benefit. This is followed by a description of FlexCDC, the change data capture tool included with Flexviews. It continues with an [...]

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Friends of Percona Get 20% Off at the MySQL Conference!

February 24, 2011 By 5 Comments

We have a special Friends of Percona discount code that you can use to get 20% off of registration at the MySQL conference in April: mys11pkb. If you click the image to the left, or this special link, it will pre-fill the code for you when you check out. Read on to see the list [...]

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Blog Redesign 2011

January 16, 2011 By 9 Comments

After more than four years of using a theme that can charitably be described as rustic, we’ve updated our look. We’re using the News theme from StudioPress, which is a bargain; their themes and theme framework are an engineering marvel. We’re still using the amazing Sphinx search plugin from Ivinco for fast and relevant searches. [...]

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