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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 [...]
February 26, 2013
InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6 (part 1)
I’ve never been a very big fan of MyISAM; I would argue that in most situations, any possible advantages to [...]
February 26, 2013
Why do we care about MySQL Performance at High Concurrency?
In many MySQL Benchmarks we can see performance compared with rather high level of concurrency. In some cases reaching 4,000 [...]
February 25, 2013
Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Your own MySQL Database Server for Under $80
There are many reasons for wanting a small MySQL database server: You’re a uni student who wants to learn the [...]
February 25, 2013
Percona Welcomes MySQL 5.6!
MySQL 5.6 was made generally available as a production-ready solution earlier this month. This release comes about 2 years after [...]
February 21, 2013
MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6 default variable values differences
As the part of analyzing surprising MySQL 5.5 vs MySQL 5.6 performance results I’ve been looking at changes to default [...]
February 20, 2013
Mystery Performance Variance with MySQL Restarts
Based on a lot of surprising comments about my MySQL 5.5 vs 5.6 performance post I decided to perform deeper [...]
February 18, 2013
Analyzing Slow Query Table in MySQL 5.6
Next week I’m teaching an online Percona Training class, called Analyzing SQL Queries with Percona Toolkit. This is a guided [...]
February 4, 2013
Can’t Create a New Thread: Errno 11 Fixes
Recently some of my fellow Perconians and I have noticed a bit of an uptick in customer cases featuring the [...]