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Ryan LoweThe 2009 Percona Performance Conference finished up last week, and was overall a resounding success. Thanks to all of the speakers, O’Reilly, and Sun/MySQL for help making it happen! Most slides have been uploaded; look for the stragglers over the next couple of days.
The schedule for the 2009 Percona Performance Conference has been released. Take a look, see what interests you, and (optionally) register to come. We look forward to seeing you all there!
The web is going the way of utf8. Drizzle has chosen it as the default character set, most back-ends to websites use it to store text data, and those who are still using latin1 have begun to migrate their databases to utf8. Googling for “mysql convert charset to utf8” results in a plethora of sites, […]
We have written before about the importance of using numeric types as keys, but maybe you’ve inherited a schema that you can’t change or have chosen string types as keys for a specific reason. Either way, the character sets used on joined columns can have a significant impact on the performance of your queries. Take […]