June 19, 2013

Post: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)

…-in. Customers should be able to choose who provides services for your product. Independent expertise….. I expect that some vendors tend to love “vendor lock-in,” and it also helps …is not because everybody likes “free beer,” but because customers like freedom of choice. Everything here is my personal…

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster - installation and setup webinar follow up Q&A

Thanks for all, who attended my webinar, I got many questions and I wanted to take … cluster, but won’t store or serve data. Q: Is the configuration file my.cnf ? A: Yes. Q: If the cluster blocks… full data is copied when you SST again. Q: Thanx Peter, I loved the webinar!  Especially the fact that that everything is live…

Post: MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant - part 1

is silly. Yes the guy who blogs on bigdbahead.com and is writing this on the mysqlperformanceblog is … temporarily ) outside the DB. Think memcached. Almost everyone loves memcached, it’s simple, fast, and just works… hitting as high as 1800 TPS. My guess is the movement is caused by the random #’s …

Post: linux.conf.au 2012 roundup

who are interested in all levels of the software stack. For those that don’t know: linux.conf.au is…a similar study on the database servers we all love and use. Migrating to PHP 5.4 Probably … on Drizzle. Mentoring: we’re Doing It Wrong My Talk: Multi-tenancy, multi-master, sharding, scaling and …

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

…to keep secrets from you. To the contrary, I’d love to share it all with you. But that’s … or you’re not. It’s just like a mechanic who listens to the car and says “I hear the …weird: [percona@db1 ~]$ grep -v ‘^#’ /etc/my.cnf | grep . My goal here is to look at the my.cnf without seeing all the …

Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own

…kept a lot of independence with my boss Tom Basil supporting my creativity rather than forcing me … is more the question of knowing there to change things rather than changing things ourselves. We love these…the same problem as everybody else who does MySQL Related work – it is very hard to find …

Post: Faster MySQL failover with SELECT mirroring

my favorite MySQL configurations for high availability is master-master replication, which is just like normal master-slave replication … matters, I did some tests for a customer who was having troubles with this type of scenario. … an article on warm standby for PostgreSQL. Link love for interested …

Post: Leaving MySQL, MySQL Consulting

… MySQL starting 1st of August. This is surely not news for my collegues and friends who knew this is comming. We’re starting our… of well known Web Statistics company in Russia and I loved it a lot. I will keep you posted as soon… Source projects. If you have any referrals or leads for my new Consulting Venture let me know. If you worked with…

Comment: Should we give a MySQL Query Cache a second chance ?

… bring this up Peter. This is something that’s been buzzing around in my head for the last 6 months. … rows a.k.a per-table invalidation. I would love the ability to provide a context hint to table … will take the dev out for lots of beers who implements this. All these kind of changes would give …

Comment: Should we give a MySQL Query Cache a second chance ?

… bring this up Peter. This is something that’s been buzzing around in my head for the last 6 months. … rows a.k.a per-table invalidation. I would love the ability to provide a context hint to table … will take the dev out for lots of beers who implements this. All these kind of changes would give …