by Terry Erisman | Oct 1, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
I’m pleased to announce that speakers from Oracle will join the lineup at the Percona Live London 2013 MySQL conference which is November 11 & 12. Percona Live London 2013 features 4 keynotes, 30 breakout sessions, and 7 tutorials by leading MySQL users and...
by Alexander Rubin | Oct 1, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Webinars
MySQL DBAs know that integrating MySQL and a big data solution can be challenging. That’s why I invite you to join me this Wednesday (Oct. 2) at 10 a.m. Pacific time for a free webinar in which I’ll walk you through how to implement a successful big data strategy with...
by Matt Griffin | Sep 30, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona’s development teams are always delighted to hear about the many ways that engineers and operations teams use our open source software. Companies say they value the enterprise-grade features and high performance that Percona Server delivers for free and use the...
by Stewart Smith | Sep 27, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
I recently blogged on setting up Experimental Git mirror of Oracle MySQL trees up on GitHub. I’m now happy to announce that there are also mirrors for: Percona Server Percona XtraBackup Percona Playback I’ve also updated the Oracle MySQL GIT mirror to...
by Leif.Walsh | Sep 26, 2013 | MySQL
When I get to talk to people about TokuMX and how it’s an optimized MongoDB, I sometimes get follow-up questions like: “Is it an in-memory proxy?” “Write optimized? So you buffer all of the writes in memory and lose them on crash?” “Did...
by Stewart Smith | Sep 26, 2013 | MySQL
I’ve been working on setting up mirrors on github of all our BZR branches. My first efforts that are at a suitable stage to share are mirrors of the Oracle MySQL trees. This is currently a snapshot of MySQL 5.1, 5.5 and 5.6 with all the tags preserved....
by Dave Rosenlund | Sep 25, 2013 | MySQL
Save Time & Money – Do It Right The First Time SPEAKER: Tim Callaghan, VP Engineering, Tokutek DATE: Thursday, September 26th TIME: 1pm ET If you are thinking of using the leading NoSQL database in a project, learn just how easy it is to get started with...
by Nilnandan Joshi | Sep 25, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Editor’s Note: This post was written for MySQL 5.1/5.5 and that the default for innodb_file_per_table was turned ON in 5.6 and the behaviors/process noted below may not be necessary for someone running 5.6/5.7. When innodb_file_per_table is OFF and all data is...
by Christian.Rober | Sep 24, 2013 | MySQL
Last week I described TokuDB’s new Hot Backup feature. This week we are going to briefly discuss the same feature, but as it was added to TokuMX, our version of MongoDB. Since the Hot Backup library is essentially a shim between MySQL and the Linux kernel,...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 24, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
This Wednesday in our next webinar I’ll share how to configure a better-performing MySQL 5.6 server. You’ll lean a practical approach to generating a sensible configuration file that sets what is needed and omits what is not. Why dedicate an entire webinar...
by Jay Janssen | Sep 23, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is different enough from async replication that it can be a bit of a puzzle how to do things the Galera way. This post will attempt to illustrate the basics of setting up 2 node PXC cluster from scratch. Requirements Two servers (could be...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 20, 2013 | MySQL
Percona is glad to announce the fourth Release Candidate of Percona Server 5.6.13-60.6 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.6.13, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.13-60.6 is the fourth RC...
by Rich.Prohaska | Sep 20, 2013 | MySQL
One of our customers sometimes observed lots of simple insertions taking far longer than expected to complete. Usually these insertions completed in milliseconds, but the insertions sometimes were taking hundreds of seconds. These stalls indicated the existence of a...
by Muhammad Irfan | Sep 20, 2013 | MySQL
I recently stumbled upon a post that Peter Zaitsev published back in 2007 titled “Innodb Performance Optimization Basics.” It’s a great post and reading it inspired me to examine what’s changed in the nearly six years that have followed in...
by Christian.Rober | Sep 19, 2013 | MySQL
In my last post, I discussed the existing backup solutions for MySQL. At the end I briefly discussed why the backup solutions for InnoDB do not apply to TokuDB. Now I’m going to outline the backup solution we created. Our solution works for both TokuDB and...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 19, 2013 | Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.5 on September 19th, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.1 series....
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 19, 2013 | MySQL
Later this week I’m traveling to San Francisco to attend MySQL Connect – which looks like an exciting event to be at. I’m going to deliver two talks at this show, both on Sunday – MySQL Indexing Best Practices for MySQL 5.6 and Optimizing MySQL...
by Leif.Walsh | Sep 18, 2013 | MySQL
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 18, 2013 | MySQL
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.33-23.7.6 on September 18, 2013. Binaries are available from the downloads area or from our software repositories. New Features: Default State Snapshot Transfer method, defined in wsrep_sst_method...
by David Busby | Sep 18, 2013 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
With the close of call for papers earlier this month, the Percona Live London conference committee was in full swing this past week reviewing all of the many submissions for November’s Percona Live London MySQL Conference. The submissions are far ranging and...
