Do you have a query you never dared to touch? Do you know it’s bad, but it’s needed? Does it fit your screen? Does it really have to be that expensive? Do you want to do something about it? During the next Percona webinar on February 27, I will present some techniques that can be [...]
Percona MySQL Webinar: Really Large Queries: Advanced Optimization Techniques, Feb. 27
February 18, 2013 By 2 Comments
Webinar: Building a highly scaleable distributed row, document or column store with MySQL and Shard-Query
February 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
On Friday, February 15, 2013 10:00am Pacific Standard Time, I will be delivering a webinar entitled “Building a highly scaleable distributed row, document or column store with MySQL and Shard-Query” The first part of this webinar will focus on why distributed databases are needed, and on the techniques employed by Shard-Query to implement a distributed [...]
Read/Write Splitting with PHP Webinar Questions Followup
January 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
Today I gave a presentation on “Read/Write Splitting with PHP” for Percona Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I answered as many as I could during the session, but here are [...]
Webinar on Read/Write Splitting with PHP
January 17, 2013 By 2 Comments
I’ll be presenting a webinar next Wednesday, January 23 at 10 a.m. (Pacific Time), about issues application developers should think about for scaling out read-query traffic using multiple MySQL instances in a replication pair. Specifically, about the care we have to take because replication is asynchronous. This means the slave may not have current data [...]
Common MySQL traps webinar questions followup
January 17, 2013 By 1 Comment
Thanks to all attendees of the webinar yesterday! If you missed it, you can watch the video recording. Here are some questions that remained unanswered due to time constraints. Q: Are there any technical considerations or best practice tips to have a replicated slave in the cloud, for example on Amazon AWS? Hardware resources are [...]
Join us for our first Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. Jan 29
January 10, 2013 By 4 Comments
At Percona we focus on education a lot, which we believe is critical for us to be successful with our mission of making businesses successful with their use of MySQL. The MySQL Performance Blog, our first effort in this space, by now contains over 1,000 technical articles. We have spoken on countless conferences and Meetups [...]
Webinar: Avoiding common traps when designing a MySQL application
January 7, 2013 By 4 Comments
On January 16th at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern, I will give a webinar about the main traps that are awaiting you when designing and building a stable and high-performance MySQL application. I will discuss a broad range of topics, from hardware and backups to instrumentation and indexing. I often see during my consulting practice [...]
Percona Toolkit Webinar followup Q&A
December 19, 2012 By 1 Comment
First, a thank you to everyone who attended the webinar Today, I appreciate your time and nice comments. As promised, here are answers to questions that couldn’t be answered during the talk: Q: How do you install the tools? The manual has full details, but it’s important to know that the latest release for [...]
Webinar: 10 Percona Toolkit tools every MySQL DBA should know about
December 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
On December 19th at 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific, I will be giving a webinar entitled “10 Percona Toolkit Tools Every MySQL DBA Should Know About”. As a Consultant, I make heavy use of Percona Toolkit tools while solving customers’ problems, and I have used this experience to select what I consider to [...]
Webinar: Looking for Painless MySQL High Availability ?
November 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I have a pleasure to deliver Webinar on Industrial-Strength MySQL Applications Using Percona and Continuent together with Robert Hodges next week, Nov 28. We will talk about how you can use technologies from Percona and Continuent to build Highly Performance and Highly Available Applications utilizing MySQL Replication. I’ve been interesting in doing this Webinar for [...]
