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September 18, 2013
Percona Live London 2013: an insider’s view of the schedule
With the close of call for papers earlier this month, the Percona Live London conference committee was in full swing this [...]
September 10, 2013
How InnoDB promotes UNIQUE constraints
The other day I was running pt-duplicate-key-checker on behalf of a customer and noticed some peculiar recommendations on an InnoDB [...]
August 26, 2013
MySQL Security Webinar: Follow-up Q&A
Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar on MySQL security; hopefully you’ve all gone out and set SELinux to [...]
August 15, 2013
Percona University at Washington, D.C. – Sept. 12
Following our events earlier this year in Raleigh, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Portland, we bring Percona University to Washington, [...]
August 1, 2013
Schema Design in MongoDB vs Schema Design in MySQL
For people used to relational databases and doing MySQL database design, using NoSQL solutions such as MongoDB brings interesting challenges. [...]
July 31, 2013
InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 3, Performance
This is part 3 of a 3 part series covering the new InnoDB full-text search features in MySQL 5.6. To [...]
July 26, 2013
Checking B+tree leaf nodes list consistency in InnoDB
If we have InnoDB pages there are two ways to learn how many records they contain: PAGE_N_RECS field in the [...]
July 19, 2013
What kind of queries are bad for MySQL?
In writing a recommendation for our Web development team on how to use MySQL, I came up with the following [...]
June 22, 2013
Setting up MySQL SSL and Secure Connections
There are different articles on how to setup MySQL with SSL but it’s sometimes difficult to end up with a [...]
June 7, 2013
Choosing a MySQL HA Solution – Post-Webinar Q&A
Thanks to everyone who was in attendance on 05 June 2013 for my “Choosing a MySQL HA Solution” webinar. If [...]
June 4, 2013
Implementing SchemaSpy in your MySQL environment
Lately I have been working with a set of customers on a longer term basis which has given me time [...]
June 3, 2013
MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized – Webinar questions followup
On Friday I gave a presentation on “MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized” for Percona MySQL Webinars. If you missed it, you can [...]
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 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 14, 2013
MySQL 5.6.10 Optimizer Limitations: Index Condition Pushdown
While preparing the webinar I will deliver this Friday, I ran into a quite interesting (although not very impacting) optimizer [...]
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 [...]