If you have been waiting for Percona’s highly rated MySQL courses to be taught near you, your wait is over. We will be holding our Developer, DBA, InnoDB, and Operations training in the following cities: Dublin, Ireland – December 5 – 8, 2011 San Diego, CA – December 12 – 15, 2011 New York, NY [...]
Percona Training in London and Frankfurt
December 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For those that missed it – last week we added training in Frankfurt and London to our website. This includes our new Operations Training announced in September. (While in Europe, we’d love to speak at your meetup group on Percona Server and/or MySQL Optimization. If you’re a meetup organizer in London or Paris, please feel [...]
Percona at WebConf Riga 2010
October 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My colleague Aleksandr Kuzminsky will be speaking at WebConf Riga 2010 next month on XtraBackup: Hot Backups and More and Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables. WebConf is the first big conference of its kind in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and we are very happy to be participating. In addition to Aleksandr’s [...]
Instrumentation and the cost of Foreign Keys
September 20, 2010 By 8 Comments
I occasionally get in to light arguments healthy discussions with students about whether or not to use Foreign Key constraints on InnoDB tables. My standard response has always been: “it depends on how much of a tradeoff you are willing to make for performance. In some situations the cost can be considerable”. .. that’s when [...]
Percona talks at OpenSQL Camp this weekend
August 19, 2010 By 3 Comments
Four Perconians (perconites?) will be at OpenSQL Camp in Sankt Augustin, Germany this weekend presenting talks on: Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what XtraDB — InnoDB on steroids Xtrabackup for MySQL If you would like to stop by and say hello, we are Aleksandr, Istvan, Morgan [...]
Announcing Training for Operations Teams
August 18, 2010 By 3 Comments
We’re opening up registration for our new training courses today. In short: we are moving from two days to a new four-day format. The new additions are created by: Splitting our current InnoDB day in half. We now have one day for DBAs, and one day just on InnoDB topics. A new Operations Day – covering [...]
Announcing New Training Venues for May-August
April 8, 2010 By 3 Comments
We’ve just launched training for London, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Orlando, Columbus, Dallas, San Diego, Denver, Minneapolis, New York City, Chicago & Washington DC. This is in addition to Los Angeles, Raleigh & Toronto – which had previously been scheduled. If you organize a meetup group in one of these cities, get in touch. In [...]
2010 Percona Training Schedule
January 14, 2010 By 5 Comments
After a nice long vacation, it’s time to unveil our destinations for public classes in 2010. We are now offering a course for Developers as well as DBAs.  The dates are: Seattle 16 February San Francisco 18-19 February Boston 22-23 February New York City 25-26 February Montréal 8-9 March Denver 15-16 March Chicago 18-19 March [...]
Speaking at the LA MySQL Meetup – 18th November
November 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A recent photo from Highload.ru I said in my last post, that we’re interested in speaking at MySQL meetups, and I’m happy to say that the Los Angeles MySQL Meetup has taken us up on the offer. On November 18th, I’ll be giving an introductory talk on InnoDB/XtraDB Performance Optimization. I will be the second [...]
Training Updates
October 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I wanted to provide an update on two things: Firstly, we have opened registration for InnoDB/XtraDB training in Los Angeles (Nov 18th). The second is that while I am in New York City for training (Oct 29th), I’ll be giving a (free) talk at the MySQL Meetup group there (Oct 28th). We love to speak [...]
