… 2013. I am happy to see Oracle’s engineers coming with talks — and now with a great MySQL 5.6 release — and I have great… drinks during the Community Networking Reception). I am personally looking forward to another lengthy discussion with Dimitri Kravtchuk on how benchmarks should be… the few engineers in the world who knows everything about InnoDB. If you seriously work with MySQL, then you should not miss…
Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013: It feels like 2007 again
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Post: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)
May 10, 2013 By 13 Comments
… Now let me state that I am not an Open Source fanatic and I totally accept different models. …lock-in. Customers should be able to choose who provides services for your product. Independent expertise. …to attract paying customers and had to merge with SkySQL. I name that a business failure (even …
Comment: MySQL and Sun - Oportunity for smaller companies ?
April 4, 2008 By 10 Comments
…, but I do take issue with the idea that Pythian’s isn’t led by seasoned MySQL leadership. What am I, chopped liver? 
I hope you don’t mind if I share some Pythian trivia to set…, who has been doing MySQL architecture at Internet scale since we launched our services in 2002. I would compare this team with confidence…
Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster - installation and setup webinar follow up Q&A
October 28, 2012 By 4 Comments
…, who attended my webinar, I got many questions and I wanted to take this opportunity to answer them…. as per my testing…or am I wrong here ? A: In the demo I used a blank root …Does galera async replication fit in with percona XtraDB Cluster? i.e. can I run a production cluster in synchronous…
Comment: Getting MySQL to use full key length
February 15, 2007 By 5 Comments
… weakness of MySQL. I am running 5.0.32 enterprise and I have the same experience. I am working with MySQL support who really have not been…
Post: What's up with HandlerSocket?
March 28, 2011 By 43 Comments
… build the HandlerSocket plugin from source. This is being changed with Percona-Server. The HandlerSocket plugin is now included by default… an inherent distrust of benchmarks when done only by parties who have an interest in the product; there needs to be… more third-party involvement with bug reports, feature requests, and patches. I see lots of interest in HandlerSocket and am tremendously optimistic about…
Post: KISS KISS KISS
March 1, 2009 By 7 Comments
… but creative solutions also means unproven and people who had to become creative with their system often did that because they had… of failure database backend with application constantly going down because of bad code or something unpredicted. Summary: So am I denying all MySQL industry practices (which we also covered in a great depth in our book) ? Not really. I‘m…
Post: Percona Replication Manager, a solution for MySQL high availability with replication using Pacemaker
November 29, 2011 By 102 Comments
…, Baron Schwartz and I, to develop a solution using Pacemaker, a well known and established cluster manager with a bullet proof communication… the truly new thing in the resource agent. I am grateful to Florian Haas who told me to use node attributes to avoid… should be improved, a fairly easy task I believe. Of course, I‘ll work with the maintainers of the Pacemaker resources agents to…
Post: MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant - part 1
October 15, 2009 By 16 Comments
….  I am still getting a really solid # of hits in memcached, but the # of writes in MySQL coupled with the still… be! Memcached is not a cure all. I have talked to many client’s who say “we will just throw memcached… be helpful. I am still getting a really solid # of hits in memcached, but the # of writes in MySQL coupled with the still…
Comment: New MySQL Community Release Policies published
August 9, 2007 By 9 Comments
… such a great teacher. who once said: “I think I was wrong once in 1978, but I am not sure ….”. You know who said that ???? Here… (so I am told) is on having those bleeding edge community patches. I will say no more as I am not in direct touch with Community… also was amended with some very nice improvements not directly related to slow query log. 3) No comment. Who introduced latency can…
