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May 18, 2010
OpenSQL Camp Boston 2010
OpenSQL Camp Boston 2010 will be held at the Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 15-17, 2010. The Stata Center [...]
May 18, 2010
Is your server’s performance about to degrade?
I’ve been talking and writing a bit lately about the scaling problems I’m seeing on fast servers running lots of [...]
May 18, 2010
FlashCache: more benchmarks
Previously I covered simple case with FlashCache, when data fits into cache partitions, now I am trying to test when [...]
May 17, 2010
Joining on range? Wrong!
The problem I am going to describe is likely to be around since the very beginning of MySQL, however unless [...]
May 14, 2010
mysql_upgrade and Innodb Tables
Upgrading from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1 or Percona Server 5.1 you may run into issues with mysql_upgrade – it [...]
May 11, 2010
OpenSQL (2009 Portland) talk on an Open Storage Engine API
I just spotted the youtube video of my OpenSQL Camp (Portland 2009) talk on An Open Storage Engine API. I [...]
May 10, 2010
Two Types of MySQL Users
In comments to my previous post I got number number of comments saying if MySQL would not have multiple storage [...]
May 10, 2010
FlashCache: first experiments
I wrote about FlashCache there, and since that I run couple benchmarks, to see what performance benefits we can expect. [...]
May 8, 2010
The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines
One of the big “Selling Points” of MySQL is support for Multiple Storage engines, and from the glance view it [...]
May 7, 2010
Percona Server 5.0.90-build21
Dear Community, Percona Server 5.0.90, release 21 is available for use. Comparing to the previous release it has following new [...]
May 6, 2010
Debugging MySQL Problems with Row-Based Replication
MySQL 5.1 introduces row-based binary logging. In fact, the default binary logging format in GA versions of MySQL 5.1 is [...]
May 6, 2010
How much memory Innodb Dictionary can take ?
The amount of memory Innodb will require for its data dictionary depends on amount of tables you have as well [...]
May 5, 2010
Checking for a live database connection considered harmful
It is very common for me to look at a customer’s database and notice a lot of overhead from checking [...]
May 4, 2010
What is a Performance Model for SSDs?
Here are the slides and video for my MySQL UC ignite talk on measuring the performance of SSDs. You can [...]
May 4, 2010
Goal-Driven Performance Optimization white-paper available
If you were at last month’s MySQL conference, you might have seen a small flyer we were distributing, titled “A [...]
April 30, 2010
MongoDB Approach to Availability
Another thing I find interesting about MongoDB is its approach to Durability, Data Consistency and Availability. It is very relaxed [...]
April 30, 2010
MongoDB Approach to database synchronization
I went to MongoSF today – quite an event, and I hope to have a chance to write more about [...]
April 30, 2010
Fractal Tree Video from OpenSQL Camp (Portland in 2009)
I recently discovered that there’s a youtube video of the talk I gave at OpenSQL Camp in Portland in 2009. [...]
April 29, 2010
Seeking volunteers for Percona documentation
Percona wants to upgrade our documentation to improve its readability and to make it more useful for you, our clients [...]
April 28, 2010
“How Fractal Trees Work” talk at MySQL 2010
Here’s the talk I presented at the MySQL User Conference. This talk is a fairly technical talk on how fractal [...]