by Baron Schwartz | Jan 10, 2011 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
Finding bad queries is a big part of optimization. A scientific optimization process can be simplified to “can anything be improved for less than it costs not to improve it? – if not, we’re done.” In databases, we care most about the work the...
by Baron Schwartz | Jan 10, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Software
I’ve posted a new white paper about the implementation and benefits of Percona Server’s fast-restart capabilities. Briefly, after shutting down and restarting or rebooting the server, it can be back to full performance in a couple of minutes. That’s...
by Baron Schwartz | Jan 8, 2011 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I am constantly referring to the amazing MySQL manual, especially the option and variable reference table. But just as frequently, I want to look up blog posts on variables, or look for content in the Percona documentation or forums. So I present to you what is now my...
by Yves Trudeau | Jan 7, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
On January 31st, I’ll be giving a webinar whose title is “Choosing a High-Availability Solution”. Although the subject is not new, we keep receiving many questions regarding HA and MySQL so we thought it would be a good idea to present a webinar on...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 7, 2011 | Benchmarks, MySQL
I again work with the system which needs high insertion rate for data which generally fits in memory. Last time I worked with similar system it used MyISAM and the system was built using multiple tables. Using multiple key caches was the good solution at that time and...
by Morgan Tocker | Jan 5, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
Today we’re announcing Percona Live – a one day event to be held at the Bently Reserve on February 16th in San Francisco. Live is our way of showcasing some of the awesome work that has been going into MySQL recently – and the theme of this event...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 3, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
I’m speaking at MySQL/PHP Meetup at Charlotte,NC next week with topic being Scaling MySQL Applications. We will have a presentation probably for about an hour and the good amount of time for questions. So come prepared. Great thanks to Red Ventures, LLC for help...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 3, 2011 | Benchmarks, MySQL
In my post MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive I mentioned that I used innodb-log-block-size=4096 in Percona Server to get better throughput, but later Dimitri in his article MySQL Performance: Analyzing Percona’s TPCC-like Workload on MySQL 5.5...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 3, 2011 | Benchmarks, MySQL
A couple of days ago, Dimitri published a blog post, Analyzing Percona’s TPCC-like Workload on MySQL 5.5, which was a response to my post, MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive. I will refer to Dimitri’s article as article [1]. As always,...
