May 26, 2012

Post: MySQL - to use or not to use

need other features than MySQL adding in newer MySQL releases. In other cases I can see people using forFor Web shops and for most of enterprises you can use MySQL for free same as Linux. You do not have to pay for

Post: MySQL Releases first real Community Release

when it really got some real meaning from technical standpoint ? I guess it is mainly to be able to sell to more customers which would not have to pay for MySQLto reach end of life faster, so you will need to upgrade to new MySQL

Post: Percona Launches New Support Option for MySQL

for support, when you wanted a more focused offering at a lower price. Our new support offering is less expensive than our payneed it at a price that makes sense. There is a vacuum in the market for MySQL support, and we want to

Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent

… the MySQL ecosystem are Percona customers, including hardware…to customers who pay for our research. When we work on paid research with the intent to publish, we try to…the solution meets their needs. We are happy to do this, provided … any questions or comments, I invite you to use the comment form…

Post: When would you use SAN with MySQL ?

to pay forfor) meaning concurrent transaction commits will need to be serialized. Second, MySQL is often not able toto 1TB+ databases. My Take: I view SAN as solution for niche circumstances when it comes to MySQL. It may be you need

Post: MySQL Replication vs DRBD Battles

need to have processes to ensure your application does not uses this storage engine which may be hard to guaranty in many environments whento pay for yet another penalty DRBD introduce and do

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

… is to find out what MySQL instances are on the machine. It doesn’t do to just assume…for things that look wrong. When I find something, I compare it against the server’s variables or whatever other data I need… where more effort is likely to pay off, and mention those to the customer. Or we economize…

Post: Top 5 Wishes for MySQL

MySQL level which needs to be taken care of. Many of these issues were known forto do requiring complex application programming to do efficiently in distributed manner. Of course there are summary tables and other tricks we use when such need

Post: SELECT LOCK IN SHARE MODE and FOR UPDATE

to pay for multiversioning. Lets also think how these modifiers can be user and what doneed to be upgraded when update happens. SELECT FOR UPDATE also blocks access to

Post: Active Cache for MySQL

when there is a lot of updates happening to the data – counters, last login, scores etc which do not really need toneeds to be synced to database. I‘d like to hear some feedback if you think such concept would be helpful for