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March 26, 2014
Explosive OpenStack growth at the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo
The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 runs April 1-4 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Santa Clara [...]
March 24, 2014
7 Key MySQL clustering technologies – A joint webinar with 451 Research
I’m looking forward to Wednesday’s joint webinar on MySQL clustering technologies with Matt Aslett, research director of data management and [...]
March 20, 2014
How to log slow queries on Slave in MySQL 5.0 with pt-query-digest
Working as a Percona Support Engineer, every day we are seeing lots of issues related to MySQL replication. One very common [...]
March 19, 2014
Great Speakers, Fun, and Insights at Percona Live MySQL Conference
The Percona Live MySQL Conference 2014 is less than two weeks away, running April 1-4, and excitement is building for [...]
March 14, 2014
MySQL Slow Query Log: Tools and Tips
MySQL has a nice feature: MySQL slow query log, which allows you to log all queries that exceed a predefined [...]
March 13, 2014
Open Source Appreciation Day at the Percona Live MySQL Conference
I am very pleased to announce a new event in conjunction with the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this [...]
March 11, 2014
Introducing backup locks in Percona Server
TL;DR version: The backup locks feature introduced in Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0 is a lightweight alternative to FLUSH TABLES WITH READ [...]
March 6, 2014
Many-table joins in MySQL 5.6
I recently worked on an uncommon slow query: less than 100 rows were read and returned, the whole dataset was [...]
March 3, 2014
Oracle’s Mats Kindahl to weave MySQL Fabric into Percona Live session
MySQL Fabric is an integrated framework for managing farms of MySQL servers with support for both high-availability and sharding. Its [...]
February 28, 2014
How to avoid common (but deadly) MySQL development mistakes
MySQL software developers are under pressure to do more in less time and create applications that adapt to ever-changing requirements. [...]
February 28, 2014
How rows_sent can be more than rows_examined?
When looking at queries that are candidates for optimization I often recommend that people look at rows_sent and rows_examined values [...]
February 27, 2014
DBA 101: Sometimes forgotten functionality in the MySQL client
The MySQL client has some functionalities some of us never use. Why would you use them and what is the [...]
February 26, 2014
ClusterControl: Percona XtraDB Cluster Monitoring
First of all we would like to thank all of you who attended the Feb. 19 MySQL webinar, “Performance Monitoring [...]
February 24, 2014
The MySQL ARCHIVE storage engine – Alternatives
In my previous post I pointed out that the existing ARCHIVE storage engine in MySQL may not be the one that [...]
February 14, 2014
ClusterControl: Percona XtraDB Cluster Monitoring – Webinar
Next Wednesday, Severalnines CTO Johan Andersson and I will co-present a webinar about ClusterControl, a cluster management tool created by Severalnines [...]
February 13, 2014
Keynote Speakers for Percona Live MySQL Conference 2014 and $5 Expo Only Passes
The Percona Live MySQL Conference 2014 in Santa Clara, California is just around the corner: April 1-4. There is a [...]
February 12, 2014
8 common (but deadly) MySQL operations mistakes and how to avoid them
January 22 I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Common (but Deadly) MySQL Operations Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. [...]
February 11, 2014
PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA vs Slow Query Log
A couple of weeks ago, shortly after Vadim wrote about Percona Cloud Tools and using Slow Query Log to capture [...]
February 5, 2014
Analyze MySQL Query Performance with Percona Cloud Tools: Feb. 12 webinar
Next week (Wednesday, February 12 at 10 a.m. Pacific) I will host a webinar titled “Analyze MySQL Query Performance with [...]
February 3, 2014
Quick installation guide for Percona Cloud Tools for MySQL
Here in Percona Support, we’re receiving several requests per day for help with Percona Cloud Tools installation steps. So I [...]