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December 20, 2010
MySQL 5.5.8 and Percona Server: being adaptive
As we can see, MySQL 5.5.8 comes with great improvements and scalability fixes. Adding up all the new features, you have a [...]
December 20, 2010
Impact of the number of idle connections in MySQL (version 2)
Last Friday I published results of DBT2 performance while varying the number of idle connections here, but I had compiled [...]
December 17, 2010
Impact of the number of idle connections in MySQL
Be careful with my findings, I appear to have compile in debug mode, I am redoing the benchmarks. Updated version [...]
December 16, 2010
Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7
Percona Server version 5.1.53-11.7 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current [...]
December 14, 2010
Percona Server now both SQL and NOSQL
Just yesterday we released Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 which includes HandlerSocket. This is third-party plugin, developed by Akira Higuci, DeNA Co., [...]
December 13, 2010
Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3
Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current [...]
December 13, 2010
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download. This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general [...]
December 11, 2010
MySQL Partitioning for Performance Optimization
I wanted for a while to write about using MySQL Partitioning for Performance Optimization and I just got a relevant [...]
December 9, 2010
Announcing TokuDB for MariaDB
Tokutek is pleased to announce support for MariaDB for the first time with TokuDB v4.1.1 for MariaDB v5.1.47. Our customers [...]
December 9, 2010
How well does your table fits in innodb buffer pool ?
Understanding how well your tables and indexes fit to buffer pool are often very helpful to understand why some queries [...]
December 9, 2010
Using MySQL OPTIMIZE tables for InnoDB? Stop!
Innodb/XtraDB tables do benefit from being reorganized often. You can get data physically laid out in primary key order as [...]
December 9, 2010
Using XtraBackup on NFS for MySQL backups
XtraBackup works great for backing MySQL up to an NFS volume, but there is a gotcha that you need to [...]
December 8, 2010
Getting History of Table Sizes in MySQL
One data point which is very helpful but surprisingly few people have is the history of the table sizes. Projection [...]
December 7, 2010
Speaking at MySQL Meetup event in NYC, December 15
I’m going to be in NY next week and as part of the meeting I agreed to speak on New [...]
December 7, 2010
Stripped MySQL builds, the optimization that isn’t
I usually tell people to use official MySQL builds from MySQL, or from their operating system distribution if they don’t [...]
December 1, 2010
Doing Re-run of Migrating MyISAM to Innodb Webinar
We had some technical difficulties with Webex today which prevented from all registered attendees to be able to join webinar. [...]
November 29, 2010
Data Corruption, DRBD and story of bug
Working with customer, I faced pretty nasty bug, which is actually not rare situation , but in this particular there [...]
November 29, 2010
Speaking on San Francisco Meetup 14-Dec : What’s new in XtraDB/InnoDB-plugin 5.1+
Erin and Mike, organizers of SF Meetup generously invited me to talk on coming SF Meetup on Dec-14 about new [...]
November 23, 2010
Percona Server 5.1.52-rel11.6
Percona Server version 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current [...]
November 22, 2010
Moving from MyISAM to Innodb or XtraDB. Basics
I do not know if it is because we’re hosting a free webinar on migrating MyISAM to Innodb or some [...]