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May 9, 2013
How to Create a New (or Repair a Broken) GTID-Based Slave with Percona XtraBackup
Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 has been published with support for GTID based replication. As promised, here is the step-by-step guide on [...]
May 2, 2013
Galera Flow Control in Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL
Last week at Percona Live, I delivered a six-hour tutorial about Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL. I actually had [...]
May 1, 2013
Follow these basics when migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL
Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL is a hot thing right now and some users jump right in without enough [...]
April 25, 2013
Finally. How to verify if all MySQL records were recovered
After nearly every recovery case the same question arises: How many MySQL records were recovered and how many were lost. [...]
April 22, 2013
How to recover table structure from InnoDB dictionary
To recover a dropped or corrupt table with Percona Data Recovery Tool for InnoDB you need two things: media with [...]
April 19, 2013
The write cache: Swap insanity tome III
Swapping has always been something bad for MySQL performance but it is even more important for HA systems. It is [...]
April 18, 2013
Rotating MySQL Slow Logs Safely
This blog post is part two of two. Like part one, published Wednesday, this is a cross-post from Groupon’s engineering [...]
April 17, 2013
Disconnecting a replication slave is easier with MySQL 5.5+ (RESET SLAVE vs. RESET SLAVE ALL)
It’s not uncommon to promote a server from slave to master. One of the key things to protect your data [...]
April 16, 2013
Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!
Today’s blog post diving into the waters of the MySQL buffer pool is a cross-post from Groupon’s engineering blog, and [...]
April 15, 2013
Keynotes, BOFs, and the Community Networking Reception at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
The Birds of a Feather sessions on Tuesday night and the Wednesday night Community Networking Reception will be fun and [...]
April 11, 2013
10 years of MySQL User Conferences
In preparing for this month’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, I’ve been reminiscing about the annual MySQL User Conference’s history – [...]
April 10, 2013
Why use encrypted backup with Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL?
We just released our first alpha of Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL and with it we included the ability to [...]
April 3, 2013
Learn About MySQL 5.6 at the Percona Live MySQL Conference
5.6 has redefined MySQL performance and usability. Some great talks at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo will provide [...]
March 20, 2013
Percona MySQL University coming to Toronto this Friday!
Percona MySQL University, Toronto is taking place this Friday and I’m very excited about this event because it is a special [...]
March 19, 2013
Facebook at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo and Advanced Registration Ending Soon
Facebook is a major user of MySQL and has pushed the performance limits of the technology. Their MySQL experts have [...]
March 13, 2013
MySQL Backup tools used by Percona Remote DBA for MySQL
As part of Percona Remote DBA for MySQL service we recognize that reliable backups are one of the most important [...]
March 12, 2013
Oracle Technical Experts at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
I’m pleased to announce that Oracle is sending some of their top technical people to speak at the Oracle, will [...]
March 4, 2013
InnoDB MySQL full text search: Part 2, the queries!
This is part 2 in a 3 part series on InnoDB MySQL full-text searches. In part 1, we took a [...]
February 28, 2013
MySQL 5.5 lock_wait_timeout: patience is a virtue, and a locked server
Like Ovais said in Implications of Metadata Locking Changes in MySQL 5.5, the hot topic these days is MySQL 5.6, but [...]