by Morgan Tocker | Jan 5, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
Today we’re announcing Percona Live – a one day event to be held at the Bently Reserve on February 16th in San Francisco. Live is our way of showcasing some of the awesome work that has been going into MySQL recently – and the theme of this event...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 3, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
I’m speaking at MySQL/PHP Meetup at Charlotte,NC next week with topic being Scaling MySQL Applications. We will have a presentation probably for about an hour and the good amount of time for questions. So come prepared. Great thanks to Red Ventures, LLC for help...
by Ryan Lowe | Dec 30, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is pleased to officially (and belatedly) welcome Sasha Pachev to our team of consultants. Before joining Percona, Sasha worked as an independent MySQL consultant. Sasha was the original implementer and maintainer of MySQL replication from 3.23 to 4.02. He is...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 29, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.53-12.4 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4 is based on MySQL 5.1.53.  New Features Added: Precompiled UDFs for Maatkit (FNV and...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 16, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.53-11.7 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7 is now based on MySQL...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release also includes the HandlerSocket plugin, which provides NoSQL features...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download. This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general availability version of XtraBackup. This is a beta release. Functionality Added or Changed Support for MySQL 5.5...
by John.Partridge | Dec 9, 2010 | MySQL
Tokutek is pleased to announce support for MariaDB for the first time with TokuDB v4.1.1 for MariaDB v5.1.47. Our customers are choosing MariaDB more and more frequently for their most demanding database applications. We are delighted to help raise MariaDB performance...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 7, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
I’m going to be in NY next week and as part of the meeting I agreed to speak on New York MySQL Meetup. I’m going to speak about Scaling MySQL driven applications by us of caching, replication, sharding and other technologies. Hope to see you...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 1, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
We had some technical difficulties with Webex today which prevented from all registered attendees to be able to join webinar. I personally would be very upset having booked my time to attend event, pre-registered to ensure there is a space available and when unable to...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 29, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Erin and Mike, organizers of SF Meetup generously invited me to talk on coming SF Meetup on Dec-14 about new features in InnoDB in MySQL 5.1 and 5.5 and, what is pay attention to, when you upgrade from MySQL 5.0. Although I personally mostly in 5.1->5.5 upgrade area,...
by Fred Linhoss | Nov 23, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now based on...
by Fred Linhoss | Nov 22, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup 1.4 is now available for download. Version 1.4 fixes problems related to incremental backups. If you do incremental backups, it’s strongly recommended that you upgrade to this release. Functionality Added or Changed Incremental backups have...
by Baron Schwartz | Nov 16, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Ewen and I have just published Percona’s latest white paper, Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law. This is essentially a streamlined walk-through of Dr. Neil J. Gunther’s book Guerrilla Capacity Planning, with examples to show...
by Baron Schwartz | Nov 8, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Register now for a free Percona webinar about migrating your MyISAM databases to InnoDB. Save the date: Dec 1, 2010 at 9:00 AM PST (California) time. Update: the date was originally listed as December 2nd, but that was a mistake. It’s December 1st. We know that...
by Baron Schwartz | Nov 1, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
There’s an interview with Baron Schwartz (that’s me) on WebPulp.tv. Topics include the history of Percona’s software such as Percona Server (our version of the MySQL database server) and XtraBackup, what we do at Percona, what tools we use to do it,...
by Fred Linhoss | Oct 28, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Community, Percona Server version 5.1.51-rel11.5 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.51-rel11.5...
by Baron Schwartz | Oct 21, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’ve published our first case study. The customer, ideeli, had a database that was struggling on standard MySQL and InnoDB. The big win was the upgrade to XtraDB. The business continued to grow quickly, and months later under much more traffic, the database is...
by Baron Schwartz | Oct 20, 2010 | Percona Events
I’ve just added two categories to our forum, so you can post your job listings if you’re looking for someone to help you, and you can post your qualifications if you are available for hire.
by Fred Linhoss | Oct 14, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel12.1 RC is now available for download. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50. New Features Added: innodb_lru_dump_restore – Implemented automatic dumping of the...
