I’m going to be speaking on Highload++ conference October 3,4 in Moscow, Russia. This is a great conference which gathers amazing quality of speakers from Russia and around the world and I usually learn a lot and enjoy talking to a lot of great people on this event. My talk is going to be about […]
Read MoreIt’s Friday again (already?) and as usual, we have a free ticket for Percona Live London. This time Tokutek is doing the honors of running the contest and selecting the winner. Instructions for entering the contest are on their blog, at the top of my recent guest post about covering indexes.
Read More. Baron Schwartz This guest post is from our friends at Percona. They’re hosting Percona Live London from October 24-25, 2011. Percona Live is a two day summit with 100% technical sessions led by some of the most established speakers in the MySQL field. In the London area and interested in attending? We are giving […]
Read MoreI wrote about Intel 320 SSD write performance before, but I was not satisfied with these results. Somewhat each time on Intel 320 SSD I was getting different write performance, so it made me looking into this with details.
Read MoreReview of the O’Reilly Strata Making Data Work Conference (reprinted from my guest blog for the Cloud Council of 7) Monica Rogati of LinkedIn told a story of the early days at the firm, when the reporting system consisted of a single server under someone’s desk. One day, someone needed an Ethernet cable and […]
Read MorePercona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.3 on 22 September, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona Xtrabackup. If the innodb_file_per_table server option is being used and DDL operations, TRUNCATE TABLE, DROP/CREATE the_same_table or ALTER statements on InnoDB tables are […]
Read MoreIn a month, the 24th of October, Johan Andersson (severalnines.com) and I will be giving a full day tutorial on NDB cluster which will include both presentations and hands-on. Be ready for a fast ramp-up on NDB! Among items covered: – Achitecture – Installation – Loading data – Administration (common procedures) – Node recovery – […]
Read MoreSome indexing structures are write optimized in that they are better than B-trees at ingesting data. Other indexing structures are read optimized in that they are better than B-trees at query time. Even within B-trees, there is a tradeoff between write performance and read performance. For example, non-clustering B-trees (such as MyISAM) are typically faster […]
Read MoreThe TokuDB engine is truly impressive and I cannot contain my anticipation on what might be the next great breakthrough for my application.
Read MorePercona is happy to announce that our conference schedule is up online! We are thrilled to be able to offer such a wide variety of talks from so many MySQL experts. Come see Devananda van der Veen a Percona Consultant speak on Replication. “Replication is one of MySQL’s most widely-used features, and despite significant improvements over the years, […]
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