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June 9, 2014
Architecture and Design of MySQL-powered applications: June 11 Webinar
The architecture of MySQL-powered applications is one of my favorite topics to talk about. It’s a very important topic because [...]
June 4, 2014
Why did we develop percona-agent in Go?
We recently open-sourced our percona-agent and if you check out the source code, you’ll find that it is written in the [...]
May 22, 2014
A technical WebScaleSQL review and comparison with Percona Server
The recent WebScaleSQL announcement has made quite a splash in the MySQL community over the last few weeks, and with [...]
April 25, 2014
Managing farms of MySQL servers with MySQL Fabric
While built-in replication has been a major cause for MySQL’s wide adoption, official tools to help DBAs manage replication topologies [...]
April 17, 2014
How to find bugs in MySQL
Finding bugs in MySQL is not only fun, it’s also something I have been doing the last four years of [...]
March 28, 2014
Innodb redo log archiving
Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 introduces a new “log archiving” feature. Percona XtraBackup 2.1.5 supports “apply archived logs.” What does it mean [...]
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 7, 2014
Q&A: Common (but deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. [...]
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 11, 2014
WITHer Recursive Queries?
Over the past few years, we’ve seen MySQL technology advance in leaps and bounds, especially when it comes to scalability. [...]
January 14, 2014
InnoDB file formats: Here is one pitfall to avoid
UPDATED: explaining the role of innodb_strict_mode and correcting introduction of innodb_file_format Compressed tables is an example of an InnoDB feature [...]
January 13, 2014
Webinars: Common (but deadly) MySQL mistakes
On January 22 I’ll be presenting the first of a series of two new webinars focusing on avoiding common MySQL [...]
December 26, 2013
2 cases for MySQL server overload
Your MySQL server is overloaded. You see hundreds of running queries in the SHOW PROCESSLIST taking many seconds to run, [...]
November 11, 2013
How Percona tested Percona Server 5.6: A world premiere in advanced testing
8PM. One of the servers found a critical bug. Hop online and discuss, log bug. 10PM. Patch ready. 10:30PM. New [...]
November 11, 2013
QA: Advanced Option Combinatorics (Pairwise Testing): Combinatorial mysqld Option Test Case Generation
How do we ensure that, when we have 35+ testable option combinations for mysqld, we test each and every combination [...]
November 11, 2013
How to Extract All Running Queries (Including the Last Executed Statement) from a Core File?
This post builds on the How to obtain the “LES” (Last Executed Statement) from an Optimized Core Dump? post written [...]
October 10, 2013
SSL Performance Overhead in MySQL
NOTE: This is part 1 of what will be a two-part series on the performance implications of using in-flight data [...]
October 6, 2013
How can we bring query to the data?
Baron recently wrote about sending the query to the data looking at distributed systems like Cassandra. I want to take [...]
October 1, 2013
Join my Oct. 2 webinar: ‘Implementing MySQL and Hadoop for Big Data’
MySQL DBAs know that integrating MySQL and a big data solution can be challenging. That’s why I invite you to [...]