by Morgan Tocker | Oct 6, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
My colleague Aleksandr Kuzminsky will be speaking at WebConf Riga 2010 next month on XtraBackup: Hot Backups and More and Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables. WebConf is the first big conference of its kind in the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and...
by Morgan Tocker | Aug 19, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Four Perconians (perconites?) will be at OpenSQL Camp in Sankt Augustin, Germany this weekend presenting talks on: Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what XtraDB — InnoDB on steroids Xtrabackup for MySQL If you...
by Michael Rikmas | Apr 29, 2010 | Percona Events
The Percona team participated at this year’s O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo held April 12-15, 2010 in Santa Clara, California. We gave a lot of talks on various topics and all of those presentations are now available. Here’s the list: Achieving...
by Morgan Tocker | Jan 22, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
February and March as busy months for Community events. There’s MySQL University, Fosdem, the Seattle MySQL Meetup & Confoo.ca. Here are the details: February 4th – I’ll be presenting a talk via MySQL University on Optimizing Queries with...
by Morgan Tocker | Jan 14, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
After a nice long vacation, it’s time to unveil our destinations for public classes in 2010. We are now offering a course for Developers as well as DBAs.  The dates are: Seattle 16 February San Francisco 18-19 February Boston 22-23 February New York City...
by Morgan Tocker | Nov 20, 2009 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
Following on from our earlier announcement, Paul McCullagh has responded with the answers to your questions – as well as a few I gathered from other Percona folks, and attendees of OpenSQL Camp. Thank you Paul! What’s the “ideal” use case for the...
by Morgan Tocker | Nov 16, 2009 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I forwarded on a list of questions about PBXT to Paul McCullagh today. While Paul’s busy answering them, I’d like to announce that Robert Dempsey (InfiniDB storage engine) and Bradley C. Kuszmaul (TokuDB storage engine) have also accepted an interview....
by Morgan Tocker | Nov 5, 2009 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’ve been busy expanding our training curriculum to include training for developers building applications with MySQL. We have reached the point where we’re ready for a pilot teach – and it brings me great pleasure to announce that we’re...
by Morgan Tocker | Nov 1, 2009 | MySQL, Percona Events
A recent photo from Highload.ru I said in my last post, that we’re interested in speaking at MySQL meetups, and I’m happy to say that the Los Angeles MySQL Meetup has taken us up on the offer. On November 18th, I’ll be giving an introductory talk on...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 30, 2009 | Percona Events
I’m going to give a talk on Goal Driven Performance Optimization next Tuesday. This is one of my favorite talks as it goes beyond MySQL to the principles you can apply to performance optimizations of the complex systems, especially when you have to do a lot in...
by Morgan Tocker | Oct 16, 2009 | MySQL, Percona Events
I wanted to provide an update on two things: Firstly, we have opened registration for InnoDB/XtraDB training in Los Angeles (Nov 18th). The second is that while I am in New York City for training (Oct 29th), I’ll be giving a (free) talk at the MySQL Meetup group...
by Morgan Tocker | Sep 10, 2009 | Percona Events
Today’s the day I fly to Los Angeles to teach a private training class, en route to Santa Clara/San Francisco for our public training workshops next week. Our Montreal practice teach at Station-C went great – it was an opportunity to do a road test and...
by Aleksandr Kuzminsky | Aug 17, 2009 | Percona Software
Dear Community, Today we are announcing XtraDB release 7. This is the last release based on InnoDB plugin version 1.0.3, as you might know Innobase has released 1.0.4. The release includes following new features: MySQL 5.1.37 as a base release speed hack for...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 11, 2009 | Insight for DBAs
As you might have seen Innodb Plugin 1.0.4 was released today. I am very excited to see this release which is released exactly 5 months after release of Innodb Plugin 1.0.3 (I honestly expected to see Innodb Plugin 1.0.4 to be released by MySQL Conference and Expo in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 10, 2009 | Insight for Developers
I will be presenting at upcoming MySQL Meetup at San Francisco this Thursday, August 13. I will talk about Sphinx covering the new cool features this search engine has as well as showing the demo on how simple it is to use Sphinx to implement high performance full...
by Ryan Lowe | Jul 24, 2009 | Insight for Developers
Have you ever wondered how optimized your Memcached installation is? There is a common misconception that one doesn’t have to think too deeply about Memcached performance, but that is not true. If your setup is inefficient, you could: Burn Memory Waste Network...
by Ryan Lowe | Jun 26, 2009 | Insight for DBAs
With the growing adoption of Google’s User Statistics Patch**, the need for supporting scripts has become clear. To that end, we’ve created check-unused-keys, a Perl script to provide a nicer interface than directly querying the INFORMATION_SCHEMA...
by Ryan Lowe | Jun 18, 2009 | Percona Events
Today marks the official launch of Percona.tv. We’ll be uploading technical screencasts, conference video, and anything else cool we can think up. If you’ve got ideas or requests, let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate!
by Peter Zaitsev | May 21, 2009 | Percona Events
I find it very interesting how Sun does not get the very basic principle of true community Open Source development – you’ve got to give up on making a big splash. Traditional close source company often develop product in the secret and when it comes out as...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 20, 2009 | Percona Events
I should say I can see results of new engineering/refactoring/bug hunt efforts inside Sun/MySQL. Over last couple of weeks I started getting a lot of messages from the bugs system about bugs I reported long ago which were deferred to be fixed later or were left in...
