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July 13, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 5: Preparing Your QA Run with pquery
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode #5! In this episode we’ll be setting up and running pquery for the first time… [...]
July 8, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 4: QA Framework Setup Time!
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 4! In this episode we’ll look into setting up our QA Framework: percona-qa, pquery, reducer & [...]
July 7, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 3: How to use the debugging tool GDB
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 3: “Debugging: GDB, Backtraces, Frames and Library Dependencies” In this episode you’ll learn how to [...]
May 15, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 2: Build a MySQL server – Git, Bazaar, Compiling & Build tools
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 2: Build a MySQL Server – Git, Bazaar (bzr), Compiling, and Build Tools In this [...]
April 9, 2015
pquery binaries with statically included client libs now available!
After we released pquery to the community, and as we started logging bug reports with pquery testcases, it quickly became clear [...]
April 7, 2015
More on (transactional) MySQL metadata locks
Two years ago Ovais Tariq had explained in detail what kinds of problems existed before MySQL introduced metadata locks in [...]
March 17, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun
MySQL QA Episode #1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun This episode consists of 13 parts, and an [...]
March 17, 2015
Free MySQL QA & Bash/Linux Training Series
Welcome to the MySQL QA Training Series! If you have not read our introductory blog post on pquery yet, I’d [...]
March 13, 2015
MySQL and geospatial programming: An introduction to GIS
Geographic information systems (GIS) are used by application developers to incorporate geographic information into their datasets to create apps with [...]
February 4, 2015
The future of MySQL quality assurance: Introducing pquery
Being a QA Engineer, how would you feel if you had access to a framework which can generate 80+ crashes [...]
January 7, 2015
Django with time zone support and MySQL
This is yet another story of Django web-framework with time zone support and pain dealing with python datetimes and MySQL [...]
November 14, 2014
RDS for Aurora unveiled at AWS re:Invent
One of the big announcements at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2014 conference this week was the unveiling of Aurora. The [...]
October 23, 2014
MySQL 5.6 Full Text Search Throwdown: Webinar Q&A
Yesterday (Oct. 22) I gave a presentation titled “MySQL 5.6 Full Text Search Throwdown.” If you missed it, you can [...]
September 25, 2014
More then 1000 columns – get transactional with TokuDB
Recently I encountered a specific situation in which a customer was forced to stay with the MyISAM engine due to [...]
September 12, 2014
OpenStack Live 2015: Call for speakers open through November 9
I am proud to announce Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. The inaugural event, OpenStack Live 2015, is April [...]
August 15, 2014
Make a difference! See the world! Speak at Percona Live London; Santa Clara!
Twice each year members of the global open-source community converge on London in November and Santa Clara in April to [...]
July 17, 2014
Q&A: Even More Deadly Mistakes of MySQL Development
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Even More Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL [...]
July 16, 2014
High Availability with mysqlnd_ms | Percona XtraDB Cluster
This is the second part of my series on High Availability with mysqlnd_ms. In my first post, “Simple MySQL Master HA [...]
July 14, 2014
Simple MySQL Master HA with mysqlnd_ms
I had the pleasure of presenting to the PHP Users Group Philippines a few days ago about mysqlnd_ms. The mysqlnd [...]
July 8, 2014
TIMESTAMP Columns, Amazon RDS 5.6, and You
This comes from an issue that I worked on recently, wherein a customer reported that their application was working fine [...]