by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 11, 2008 | Percona Events
I should be faster with publishing slides but things are how they are. The slides from my OSCON2008 talk are now published at Percona Presentation Pages. Enjoy 🙂
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 8, 2008 | Percona Events
Wow!. New MySQL Community release – MySQL 5.0.67 is just out which as manual says first community release since 5.0.51b. I just recently complained about community release irregularity and I’m glad to see the new release after all. I only hope this will...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 6, 2008 | Percona Events
People are asking me if Percona will support Drizzle and what is in general our position regarding this project. First about Support. We surely will support the customers if they select to run the Drizzle instead of MySQL Server. For us it is same as supporting MySQL...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 27, 2008 | Percona Events
So I’m back from OSCON 2008. As usually it is fun conference to attend. Though I could only come for couple of days (Wed/Thu) as things are too busy here. Same as previous year I would note the conference is not as much backend and high performance focused as...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 20, 2008 | Insight for Developers
As you probably already seen in a post by Baron, Sphinx Release 0.9.8 is finally out, just in time for OSCON 2008. Even though it is “minor release” if you look at the number, it is major release in practice (and you can view snapshots as minor releases)....
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 19, 2008 | Percona Events
MySQL 5.1 was in RC stage for around 10 months now finally planned to be released as GA soon. As Monty Says MySQL 5.1.26 will be renamed as GA if no serious bugs are discovered. Lets help MySQL to ensure GA release will be indeed GA quality and support Monty in his...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 8, 2008 | Percona Events
I’ve now published slides from my talk at Velocity conference on Percona web site. Enjoy.
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 6, 2008 | Percona Events
It looks like I never blogged about it but I’m going to be speaking on OSCON 2008. Similar to the last year presentation I’ll do overview of MySQL Open Source storage engines. I’ll do brief overview of different storage engines available out there as...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 1, 2008 | Percona Events
We were chatting with Jeremy Cole today and he brought to my attention last version of MySQL Community Eddition (5.0.51) was released in November 2007 – over 7 months ago. MySQL 5.0.51a and MySQL 5.0.51b security fixes were released but these can’t be...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 26, 2008 | Insight for Developers
I spent Monday and Tuesday this week on Velocity Conference It was quite interesting event worth attending and it was very good to see the problems in this are going beyond Apache, PHP, Memcache and MySQL. A lot of talks on this conference was focusing on what is...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 13, 2008 | Percona Events
I should have written about it a while ago but I never had a change. I’m speaking at Velocity conference taking place in the Bay Area 23-24 of June. At the same conference we will have a book signing event for our book High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition which is...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 18, 2008 | Insight for DBAs
Quite frequently I would log in to customers system and find MySQL using too much memory. I would look at memory consumed by Innodb (it is often higher than innodb_buffer_pool_size) substract memory used by other global buffers such as query_cache_size and key_buffer...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 13, 2008 | Percona Events
Looking at Kaj’s Blog Annoucement MySQL has pulled back on the plans to release portions of the servers as close Source only. I am extremely happy to hear these news ! This is good for MySQL as a company, MySQL customers and MySQL users. I’m hoping...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 30, 2008 | Percona Events
If you’ve missed our presentations on MySQL Users Conference you can catch up now by taking a look at the slides, which are now published in presentations section of our company web site. You can also find a lot of old presentations in the same location. Enjoy...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 25, 2008 | Hardware and Storage
I read very nice post by Matt today and it has many good insights though I can’t say I agree on all points. First there is a lot of people out where which put it as disk is everything. Remember Paul Tuckfield saying “You should ask how many disks they have...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 24, 2008 | Percona Events
Friday after MySQL Users Conference we had a smaller meeting at Google campus to talk about MySQL architecture mainly focusing on storage engine vendors and other extension areas. It was very interesting to see all these storage engine interface extensions which are...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 23, 2008 | Percona Events
If you’re following PlanetMySQL you’ve already seen Baron’s post about MySQL Conference which many of us just have returned from. It was great event as well as 5 conferences I’ve been before that, though however it more and more becomes MySQL...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 17, 2008 | Insight for DBAs
MySQL Users Conference 2008 has number of Storage Engines presented which claim to Kick Ass. Walking in exhibition hall you could see KickFire, Infobright, Tokutek, ScaleDB. I have not seen NitroDB in the exhibition call this year but they are also worth to mention....
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 17, 2008 | Percona Events
On Monday I had a chance to have a chat with Paul Vallee from Pythian. This was quite an enlightening talk, and I was very impressed by Paul openness and willing to share with me a lot of internal operations details. I wish there would be more people out where as open...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
As you probably have already heard Innodb Announced new Plugin version for MySQL 5.1 So now you can see Heikki and the Team were not just doing only bug fixes for last two years, but rather kept very quite. We had access to this code for few weeks and should say we...
