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March 2, 2011
What is innodb_support_xa?
A common misunderstanding about innodb_support_xa is that it enables user-initiated XA transactions, that is, transactions that are prepared and then [...]
February 28, 2011
Is VoltDB really as scalable as they claim?
Before I begin, a disclaimer. VoltDB is not a customer, and did not pay Percona or me to investigate VoltDB’s [...]
February 28, 2011
Percona Server Scales Vertically with Virident tachIOn Drives
We’ve published a new white paper that explains how to stop sharding and start scaling vertically with PCI-E flash drives, [...]
February 27, 2011
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, February 26th
Percona Server has a new logo:
February 24, 2011
Friends of Percona Get 20% Off at the MySQL Conference!
We have a special Friends of Percona discount code that you can use to get 20% off of registration at [...]
February 24, 2011
Tokutek CEO talks to Wikibon about Big Data and MySQL
John Partridge, President and CEO of Tokutek, sits down to talk about MySQL performance and scalability with the Wikibon Project’s Dave [...]
February 21, 2011
Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS
Is it a good idea to deploy your database into the cloud? It depends. I have seen it work well [...]
February 21, 2011
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, February 19th
This week’s announcement is short: last week was pretty much all-hands-on-deck for our first 5.5.8 release. Still, it wasn’t ALL [...]
February 18, 2011
The Data is Coming! The Data is Coming!
This was an interesting week for data discussions in the Boston area. There were two back-to-back events this week — [...]
February 17, 2011
How to syntax-check your my.cnf file
For a long time, I’ve used a little trick to check whether there are syntax errors in a server’s my.cnf [...]
February 16, 2011
Percona Server 5.5.8 Beta Release
It’s finally here! Percona Server Percona Server 5.5.8-20.0 is now available for download. This is a beta release of Percona’s [...]
February 16, 2011
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 6 – Publishing server location
This post is the sixth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now [...]
February 15, 2011
High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 5 – The instance monitoring script
This post is the fifth of a series that started here. From the previous posts of this series, we now [...]
February 14, 2011
3 Common Rails + MySQL Mistakes
This is a cross-posting of an article we wrote for Engine Yard: Rails makes database interaction so simple that it’s [...]
February 14, 2011
My-Shhhh!-QL
I gave a talk entitled “How to Index Massive Data Sets Quickly” at the Morrelly Homeland Security Center. The event [...]
February 14, 2011
Moving Subtrees in Closure Table Hierarchies
Many software developers find they need to store hierarchical data, such as threaded comments, personnel org charts, or nested bill-of-materials. [...]
February 14, 2011
Basic performance and diagnostic tools on Solaris
Much has been written about tools to inspect Linux systems, and much has been written about Solaris’s Big Important Tools [...]
February 13, 2011
Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, February 12th
Here’s the second installment of the weekly Percona Server news roundup. There’s no team or personnel-related news, so let’s dive [...]
February 10, 2011
Battery Learning still problem many years after
The performance problems caused by battery auto learning go many years back. We wrote about it, other people from MySQL [...]
February 7, 2011
White Paper: “Scaling MySQL Deployments Efficiently” from Percona and Virident
Percona was working closely with Virident on evaluating tachIOn as solution for MySQL, and as result you can find whitepaper [...]