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Robert Barabas
Robert joined the US consulting team of Percona in 2014. He is an avid fan of opensource and all things IT. Before joining Percona he worked in various roles for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company, most recently as an Infrastructure Architect / Engineer. He is originally from Europe, Hungary where he used to be an instructor and taught various Sun Microsystems classes across Europe. Robert has some academic background and he used to manage the network services of his old Department and his Dormitory. In those rare hours when he is not in front of a computer he spends time with his family or plays around with his RC gear.

When mysqld kills mysqld

Oct 09, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL

The other day a colleague and friend of mine, Peter Boros, had a case where one of our clients had to track down the process shutting down MySQL. This blog is based on the discussion we had about that internally. Our client wanted Peter to identify the culprit behind periodic shutdowns. This proved to be […]

New PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA defaults in MySQL 5.7.7

Jun 01, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL

I thought it was worth a moment to reiterate on the new Performance Schema related defaults that MySQL 5.7.7 brings to the table, for various reasons. For one, most of you might have noticed that profiling was marked as deprecated in MySQL 5.6.7. So it is expected that you invest into learning more about Performance […]

What stopped MySQL? Tracing back signals sent to MySQL

Mar 06, 2015 | MySQL

Have you ever had a case where you needed to find a process which sent a HUP/KILL/TERM or other signal to your database? Let me rephrase. Did you ever have to find which process messed up your night? 😉 If so, you might want to read on. I’m going to tell you how you can […]