…we have the atomic data, not just the aggregated data that I showed how to maintain cheaply in the previous post. Here are some things we can…what happened. The server didn’t stall, it merely had a number of queries with longer service…
Post: Announcing Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012
August 9, 2011 By 11 Comments
…We can make this a success. (It helps that we‘ve brought in the people who ran the very first MySQL conferences in 2003 and 2004.) We…what made the MySQL conference such a vibrant, living place in the past. Personally, I always looked forward from…
Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent
March 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
…the latest technologies, but good research takes money and time, so we can‘t always know about every product or service. We are…we might not have looked into otherwise. We always make recommendations and suggestions based on what we know, and never because we…
Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
…what the operating parameters are. Can we suggest upgrades, rewriting queries, or whatnot? Sometimes there are rigid constraints on what types of solutions we can propose, and we…MySQL status Now we‘re starting to get into the really interesting bits. Alas, these are the bits where there is the…
Post: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
February 21, 2011 By 54 Comments
…we can see performance throughout the day. If you’re not familiar with the diskstats tool, the columns are the number of seconds in the sample, the…
Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
…can work remotely Before leaving MySQL I actually talk to MySQL Professional Services Director – Josh, to check if I should move to the role of MySQL…we work remotely we can make pauses as needed spending time on different things. If you need couple of weeks to implement homework which we…
Post: Percona's Commitments to MySQL Users
November 5, 2010 By 10 Comments
…we make our money from services, not software. Our job is to tell our customers what we think is best for them. That’s partly why we are…what is already in the community’s hands; at worst, they can only stop updating it with new versions. And we can…
Post: Percona Launches New Support Option for MySQL
October 5, 2010 By 9 Comments
…are great for the support provider, but end up being a very expensive insurance policy for the customer. Our pricing is significantly different from the…the size of the deployment, makes the world a better place. 2. Focused on Support This new service is about support for the MySQL database and the…
Post: MySQL Sizing questions
June 23, 2006 By 4 Comments
…are you selling 100 items or millions of items as amazon.com. What search services are you going to offer ? Is there any extra services…from single MySQL server. Of course not, because their application is a lot different even though it is doing about the…
Post: MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 4, 2011 By 10 Comments
…from your MySQL database. When you do, the limitations on the core counts and effective CPU speeds can be a bottleneck. My experience and intuition are…are careful with your physical and logical design, you can make certain workloads, such as insert-heavy, work better in the…
