by Peter Zaitsev | May 13, 2009 | Percona Events
Percona and Monty Programming AB announced formation of Open Database Alliance. Read on press release for details.
by Peter Zaitsev | May 13, 2009 | Percona Events
As you know Sun/MySQL and MeetUp.com could not agree on terms of the sponsorship and so now all MySQL meetup organizers have to pay for their Meetups or move them to the different location. Facebook is suggested as one of alternatives. I’m not to take any sides...
by Ryan Lowe | Apr 27, 2009 | Percona Events
The 2009 Percona Performance Conference finished up last week, and was overall a resounding success. Thanks to all of the speakers, O’Reilly, and Sun/MySQL for help making it happen! Most slides have been uploaded; look for the stragglers over the next couple of...
by Morgan Tocker | Apr 20, 2009 | Percona Events
This year we’ve assembled a team of seven Perconian representatives for the MySQL Conference & Expo/Percona Performance Conference. If you like a particular blog post we’ve written over the last year, have any other feedback, or just want to say hello...
by Ryan Lowe | Mar 24, 2009 | Percona Events
The schedule for the 2009 Percona Performance Conference has been released. Take a look, see what interests you, and (optionally) register to come. We look forward to seeing you all there!
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 24, 2009 | Percona Events
A couple of weeks ago Sphinx Technologies, a company behind Sphinx Full Text Search Engine launched Sphinx Support Packages which I think is a great value for everyone using Sphinx in Production. This is also a great way to support the project and get something in...
by Ryan Lowe | Mar 17, 2009 | Insight for Developers
The web is going the way of utf8. Drizzle has chosen it as the default character set, most back-ends to websites use it to store text data, and those who are still using latin1 have begun to migrate their databases to utf8. Googling for “mysql convert charset to...
by Baron Schwartz | Mar 9, 2009 | Percona Events
Even though we haven’t yet gotten a schedule online, we’re still accepting proposals for the Percona Performance Conference. As a teaser, let me just share one accepted proposal with you: Cary Millsap. If you are even vaguely involved with Oracle, you...
by Baron Schwartz | Feb 5, 2009 | Percona Events
All of us here at Percona warmly invite you to Percona Performance Conference 2009 on April 22 and 23, 2009 in the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California. The theme for the conference is Performance Is Everything. This conference is about application performance...
by Aurimas Mikalauskas | Jan 19, 2009 | Insight for Developers
These days I’m working with a customer who has an application based entirely on stored routines on MySQL side. Even though I haven’t worked much with stored procedures, I though it’s going to be a piece of cake. In the end – it was, but...
by Baron Schwartz | Jan 9, 2009 | Percona Software
Percona has been building and contributing to open-source software since the company was founded, and individually we’ve been doing the same thing for many years. We think it’s a huge value for our customers and the community. We’re involved in a...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 10, 2008 | Percona Events
I had a call with Monty the other day and I told him why I think MySQL Server Quality will never be the same again. I’ve been thinking a bit more about it and here is the extended list. In particular I think MySQL Server will never be able to reach its original...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 10, 2008 | Percona Events
MySQL 5.1 release as “GA” seems to be the most controversial to date. It had very negative response from Monty, original MySQL Founder and controversial responses in community including another beating by Kevin Burton. There is also very interesting...
by Yasufumi Kinoshita | Nov 13, 2008 | Benchmarks, Percona Software
Do you know that there are two limits about dirty (modified but not flushed to disk) blocks of InnoDB buffer pool? One is the limit of “amount”. The other is the limit of “age”. — limit of “amount” — As you know, buffer...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 7, 2008 | Percona Events
We have finally found the time to update out presentation pages – we’ve added the presentation on MySQL Scaling by Sharding and Replication as well as Russian Language presentations I’ve given at HighLoad++ conference back in October. Innodb...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 2, 2008 | Percona Events
OpenSQLCamp is coming close and it is your last change to register. I’m very excited about this event as it looks to be marketing free community gathering, having much fewer attendees but many of them are well known MySQL Professionals. Besides hopefully in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 27, 2008 | Percona Events
November 3rd, I’m speaking at San Francisco MySQL Meetup – The talk will be about Scaling MySQL driven Web Sites by Sharding and Replication. This is Free event and you’re surely most welcome to join. At this point I see there are some 70 people...
by Baron Schwartz | Oct 13, 2008 | Percona Software
Percona’s patches are now available to a wider audience via OurDelta, a community effort to provide builds with features (Percona patches, Google patches, etc) and storage engines (PBXT, Sphinx, etc) that aren’t in the main MySQL server. Arjen Lentz is...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 21, 2008 | Percona Events
I’ll be speaking at HighLoad++ conference in Moscow,Russia taking place 6,7 Oct 2008. This conference was quite success with very interesting presentation last year and I’m hoping it would be even better this year. I also will have a full dayMaster Class...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 22, 2008 | Percona Events
We’ve discussed today how we should implement MySQL Version advisory in mk-audit tool. One obvious questions was to look at the end of life – it is often bad idea to run MySQL versions past end of life as even security bugs may not be fixed in these...
