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August 21, 2013
Amazon RDS with MySQL 5.6 – Configuration Variables
One longstanding complaint I have heard for the past several years, and still hear today, is that Amazon’s Relational Database [...]
August 20, 2013
Why is the ibdata1 file continuously growing in MySQL?
We often receive this question about the ibdata1 file in MySQL at Percona Support. The panic starts when the monitoring [...]
August 17, 2013
MySQL 5.6 security vs ease of use
MySQL 5.6 surely changes the game when it comes to security vs ease of use. Before MySQL 5.6 we would [...]
August 16, 2013
MySQL Security: Armoring Your Dolphin
My colleague and teammate Ernie Souhrada will be presenting a webinar on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 10 a.m. PDT [...]
August 15, 2013
TokuMX tip: Create any field name you want
A common MongoDB tip is to create short field names to save storage space. Because MongoDB does not compress its [...]
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 14, 2013
Getting Percona PAM to work with Percona Server & its client apps
Percona Server is bundled with the PAM plugin which opens a plethora of ways to authenticate to MySQL such as [...]
August 12, 2013
Want to archive tables? Use Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver
Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver is one of the best utilities to archive the records from large tables to another tables or [...]
August 11, 2013
Can you really be Bias free ?
When we started Percona about 7 years ago one of the ideas behind the business was to provide customer focused [...]
August 9, 2013
Percona XtraBackup 2.1.4 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.4 on August 9th, 2013. Downloads are available from our [...]
August 9, 2013
The top 5 proactive measures to minimize MySQL downtime
I’m happy to announce that the recording for my recent webinar “5 Proactive Measures to Minimize MySQL Downtime” is now [...]
August 8, 2013
Big Data with MySQL and Hadoop at MySQL Connect 2013
I will be talking about Big Data with MySQL and Hadoop at MySQL Connect 2013 (Sept. 21-22) in San Francisco as well [...]
August 7, 2013
Building TokuMX and TokuDB for Production
Recently, we’ve seen a few people ask us about building TokuMX from scratch. While it’s best if you just use [...]
August 7, 2013
Percona Server 5.6 Webinar follow-up and Q&A
Good news everyone! I recently presented a webinar: Percona Server 5.6: Enterprise Grade MySQL. It was also recorded so you [...]
August 5, 2013
John Cesario of Go Daddy on Percona MySQL Training
Senior MySQL DBA John Cesario of Go Daddy spoke at Percona Live in April and shared his views on Percona [...]
August 2, 2013
Slides from Boston MongoDB User Group Meetup on 7/31/13
On Wednesday night, the Boston MongoDB User group was kind enough to have me speak about TokuMX Internals. I spoke [...]
August 2, 2013
Advanced MySQL Query Tuning: Webinar followup Q&A
Thanks to all who attended my “MySQL Query Tuning” webinar on July 24. If you missed it, you can you [...]
August 1, 2013
Percona celebrates its 7th anniversary by giving to open source ecosystem
Today we’re celebrating Percona’s 7th anniversary. A lot has changed in these past 7 years – we have grown from a [...]
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 [...]