by Martin.FarachColton | Apr 9, 2012 | MySQL
We are excited to announce TokuDB® v6.0, the latest version of Tokutek’s flagship storage engine for MySQL and MariaDB. This version offers feature and performance enhancements over previous releases, support for XA (two-phase transactional commits), better...
by Baron Schwartz | Apr 9, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
We have spent months planning and preparing for the MySQL conference that begins tomorrow. It seems appropriate to reflect on this process, where the open source and business communities are now, and what we have planned for the future. The annual April MySQL...
by Yves Trudeau | Apr 6, 2012 | MySQL
(a slightly modify rebroadcast of Florian’s post) If you are interested by High availability solution with MySQL, Florian Haas from and myself myself will be co-presenting next Tuesday a tutorial on the topic. It is never too late to register! For the ones who...
by Baron Schwartz | Apr 5, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
I’m proud to announce the GA release of version 2.1 of Percona Toolkit. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL. With this release we introduce a new version of pt-online-schema-change, a tool that enables you to ALTER large...
by Ovais Tariq | Apr 4, 2012 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This is the third blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. This blog post is targeted at the join related optimizations introduced in the optimizer. These optimizations are...
by Stewart Smith | Apr 4, 2012 | MySQL
I’m really excited to today announce the first GA (Generally Available; i.e. stable) release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We have worked hard since our last major release on improving the reliability and user experience of Percona XtraBackup as well as adding...
by Stewart Smith | Apr 4, 2012 | MySQL
I am happy to also announce the latest minor release in the Percona XtraBackup 1.6 series. We recognise that not everybody will want or be able to make the leap to our new major release, Percona XtraBackup 2.0 and so we’re also releasing Percona XtraBackup...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 3, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering...
by Tokutek | Apr 2, 2012 | MySQL
Looks like we’ll be having some more fun at the Percona Live MySQL Conference! In addition to our booth and my colleague Tim’s talk, my lightning talk was accepted. The title is “OLTP and OLAP – Have Your Cake and Eat it Too!” The...
by Terry Erisman | Apr 2, 2012 | Cloud, Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
I’m excited by all of the recent developments surrounding the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo! Our own Baron Schwartz will moderate the Diamond Keynote Panel entitled “Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL” which will feature a panel of MySQL industry...
by Stewart Smith | Mar 29, 2012 | MySQL
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.9.2 on 28th March 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here. This is a late BETA release in the process of going towards Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0. This is a BETA quality release and is not...
by Tokutek | Mar 28, 2012 | MySQL
On Monday, I took a break from planning for the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference (where we have a session, lightning talk, booth, and other misc activities planned) to go attend the UK-Massachusetts Innovation Economies Conference at the MIT Media Lab. The event...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Mar 27, 2012 | MySQL
One of the most important features of InnoDB is the row level locking. This feature provides better concurrency under heavy write load but needs additional precautions to avoid phantom reads and to get a consistent Statement based replication. To accomplish that, row...
by Baron Schwartz | Mar 26, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
I frequently see questions about how to understand the nature of errors in MySQL’s error log. Now, there is a lot of complexity to this — the flowchart would be quite large, as with any nontrivial piece of software. But there is one particular class of...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 26, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’re very pleased with community support for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We’ve got wonderful speakers providing content of phenomenal session lineup for the conference this year. We have community helping by spreading the world, about...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 23, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Many backup tools including Percona Xtrabackup, MyLVMBackup, and others use FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK to temporary make MySQL read-only. In many cases, the period for which server has to be made read-only is very short, just a few seconds, yet the impact of FLUSH...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 23, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
I’m speaking at POSSCON in Columbia,SC next week (March 28). My talk will be about Open Source software Percona Produces – Percona Server, Percona Xtrabackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster. If you want to get a birds eye view about Open Source...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 23, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Many people use mysqldump –single-transaction to get consistent backup for their Innodb tables without making database read only. In most cases it works, but did you know there are some cases when you can get table entirely missing from the backup if you use...
by Terry Erisman | Mar 22, 2012 | Cloud, Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo is going to be awesome! Great speakers, an A-list of sponsors, countless opportunities to engage with the community, and an enthusiastic crowd of MySQL users ensure this is going to be a great event. The conference...
by Ovais Tariq | Mar 21, 2012 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This is the second blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. This blog post is aimed at the optimizer enhancement Multi Range Read (MRR). Its available in both MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB...
