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May 30, 2012
Data Compression in InnoDB for Text and Blob Fields
Have you wanted to compress only certain types of columns in a table while leaving other columns uncompressed? While working [...]
May 30, 2012
Percona at SELF
There is a great conference – SELF (South East Linux Fest) taking place in June 8-9 in Charlotte,NC This conference [...]
May 27, 2012
Secure passwords being insecure
If you follow the general advices to create secure password the following ones seem to be secure, right? s11P$||!sh&2 pr0&!!ke0 [...]
May 24, 2012
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 on May 24th, 2012 (Downloads are available from Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 [...]
May 24, 2012
Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL – IOUG Presentation
Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to [...]
May 24, 2012
Webinar – Migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster
Whenever I learn about a new technology, I typically want to know the major administrative touch points more than I want [...]
May 24, 2012
Binary log file size matters (sometimes)
I used to think one should never look at max_binlog_size, however last year I had a couple of interesting cases [...]
May 23, 2012
Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012 Prize Winners and Percona Live New York 2012
I’m pleased to announce a variety of prize winners associated with the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012. The [...]
May 22, 2012
btrfs – probably not ready yet
Every time I have a conversation on SSD, someone mentions btrfs filesystem. And usually it is colored as a solution [...]
May 21, 2012
Intel 520 SSD in MySQL sysbench oltp benchmark
In my raw IO benchmark of Intel 520 SSD we saw that the drive does not provide uniform throughput and [...]
May 18, 2012
Tutorial Tomorrow, 5/19, at the 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
This Saturday afternoon in New York, Martin Farach-Colton and I will run a tutorial on the theoretical foundations of memory sensitive [...]
May 16, 2012
SwRI Chooses TokuDB to Tackle Machine Data for an 800M+ Record Database
Tackling machine data on the ground to ensure successful operations for NASA in space Issues addressed: Scaling MySQL to multi-terabytes [...]
May 16, 2012
Greg Dunn, Senior Research Engineer, SWRI
The impact to our required storage was dramatic. We benefited from over 9x compression. In our comparison benchmarks, we went [...]
May 16, 2012
Training in London next week
I’m going to deliver MySQL Training next week (May 21-24) in London. This is a rare opportunity as I do [...]
May 16, 2012
Benchmarking single-row insert performance on Amazon EC2
I have been working for a customer benchmarking insert performance on Amazon EC2, and I have some interesting results that [...]
May 16, 2012
Percona Server 5.5.23-25.3 released!
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.23-25.3 on May 16, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). [...]
May 14, 2012
Tokutek Welcomes Gerry Narvaja!
We are excited to have Gerry Narvaja start today at Tokutek! Gerry has spent more than 25 years in the software [...]
May 14, 2012
Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23
Our previous GA release of Percona XtraDB Cluster caused a lot of interest and feedback. I am happy to announce [...]
May 10, 2012
Percona Live Slides and Video Available: The Right Read Optimization is Actually Write Optimization
In April, I got to give a talk at Percona Live, about why The Right Read Optimization is Actually Write [...]
May 10, 2012
Testing Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo
I was lucky enough to get my hands on new Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo card. So I decided to run the [...]