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December 19, 2012
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC): what about GRA_*.log files ?
How easy is it to identify and debug Percona XtraDB Cluster replication problem ? If you are using PXC, you [...]
December 19, 2012
Percona and the MariaDB Foundation
There have been several reports (1,2,3) describing Percona’s stance regarding the MariaDB Foundation that are not totally accurate so I [...]
December 18, 2012
Migrating several single standalone MySQL server to one Percona XtraDB Cluster… MariaDB to the rescue !
Some weeks ago I had to migrate some independent MySQL servers (some standard MySQL masters, and some just standalone) to [...]
December 14, 2012
What Linux Distribution do you use to run MySQL ?
In the last poll we discovered some 90% of responders run MySQL on Linux which is not totally a surprise. [...]
December 14, 2012
The Optimization That (Often) Isn’t: Index Merge Intersection
Prior to version 5.0, MySQL could only use one index per table in a given query without any exceptions; folks [...]
December 14, 2012
Thank You Percona Live London 2012 Attendees!
Percona Live London wrapped up last week to very positive reviews from attendees and sponsors like those from Johan De [...]
December 12, 2012
Webinar: 10 Percona Toolkit tools every MySQL DBA should know about
On December 19th at 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific, I will be giving a webinar entitled “10 Percona [...]
December 7, 2012
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.2 on December 7th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). [...]
December 6, 2012
Percona response to recent MySQL security bugs
Recently there have been discussions on several vulnerabilities in MySQL and closely related projects such as MariaDB and Percona Server. [...]
December 6, 2012
Fractal Tree Indexing Overview
We get a lot of questions about how Fractal Tree indexes work. It’s a write-optimized index with fast queries, but [...]
December 5, 2012
Quickly finding unused indexes (and estimating their size)
I had a customer recently who needed to reduce their database size on disk quickly without a lot of messy [...]
December 4, 2012
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0.4
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.4 on December 4th, 2012. Downloads are available from our [...]
December 4, 2012
A closer look at Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL
The Web And PHP Magazine just published an article describing Percona XtraDB Cluster written by Liz van Dijk and Kenny Gryp. It [...]
December 3, 2012
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – News from the Committee – Tutorial Selection Complete
As Percona Live London is raging in the UK, I thought it fitting to remind everyone about the next big [...]
November 30, 2012
Percona Live London 2012: Percona XtraDB Cluster in a nutshell
On Monday I will deliver with Seppo Jaakola from Codership a tutorial on Percona XtraDB Cluster (Percona Server + Galera). [...]
November 30, 2012
What Operating System do you run MySQL on in Production
This Friday we’ll have two polls instead of one to learn about Operating system we’re using to run MySQL. First [...]
November 28, 2012
Replication of the NOW() function (also, time travel)
Notice the result of the NOW() function in the following query. The query was run on a real database server [...]
November 27, 2012
Webinar: Best Practices for a Successful TokuDB Evaluation
In this webinar we will show step by step how to install, configure, and test TokuDB for a typical performance [...]
November 26, 2012
Announcing Percona Playback 0.5
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Playback 0.5 on November 26th, 2012. Downloads are available from our [...]