by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 15, 2008 | Percona Events
Reading evening news and rss feeds I found interesting next sequence: Jeremy’s post “MySQL to launch new features only in MySQL Enterprise” basically about some new features of MySQL will be available only for paid customers Then Kaj’s post...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I had a chance to speak to Igor – head of MySQL optimizer team and Timur – both of them expressed concern with TPC-H run results I posted and notes about little gains in MySQL 6.0. Do not get this post wrong. I’m not saying MySQL 6.0...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2008 | Percona Events
Yesterday we started the conference early with MySQL Community Dinner which was quite a success with about 30-50 people showing up (hard to count as people come and go) even though it was conflicting with Silicon Valley MySQL Meetup and which at least prevented Jeremy...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2008 | Percona Events
Percona, the company maintaining MySQL Performance Blog has a good presence on the conference this year. We have me (Peter), Vadim, Aurimas, Baron and Andrew attending the show. Alexey had to stay because he could not get Visa in time and Maciek is staying to be able...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 9, 2008 | Insight for DBAs
There are interesting posts these day about future of MySQL Replication by Brian Frank and Arjen. I think it very interesting to take a look at a bit bigger picture using framework from Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution. I’m not going to speak about...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 9, 2008 | Benchmarks
Reading Barons post about Kickfire Appliance and of course talking to them directly I learned a lot in their product is about beating data processing limitations of current systems. This raises valid question how fast can MySQL process (filter) data using it current...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 4, 2008 | Percona Events
So it looks like these days Kickfire welcomed everyone to tell they’ve been working with Kickfire – Baron Keith Frank is writing about KickFire. Good Job Kickfire PR team you really energized community. We also were working with Kickfire for quite a while...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 3, 2008 | Percona Events
On his way to MySQL Users Conference Andrew will stop by in Moscow, Russia and give a talk about Sphinx current features, development plans, and deployment use cases. Interesting enough the meeting will take place at Moscow State University, Computer Science Faculty...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 26, 2008 | Percona Events
As you may have seen from his blog, Baron Schwartz is joining our consulting company – Percona in less than a week. This is exciting news for us as Baron is renowned MySQL community member, blogger, co-author of High Performance MySQL second edition book, author...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 26, 2008 | Percona Events
Reading Martens interview we see the quite: “As soon as the deal closed we immediately secured a big deal with a major European national police agency,” said Mickos, now SVP database products at Sun. “Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 25, 2008 | Percona Events
MySQL made some tasks from their internal task tracking tool – Worklog a while back. I just have not look at it besides checking Maria related tasks until couple of days ago as Jay announced new Forge going live. Check it out – there are a lot of nice...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 21, 2008 | Percona Events
During the recent days we had few announcements of people leaving Sun/MySQL – few days ago I’ve seen announcement by Ronald Bradford and now I see Antony Curtis followed. I know bunch of other guys which are considering to leave or stay. I do not...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
MySQL Users Conference is coming and with it my presentation about Innodb Scalability limits. We did bunch of tests but we surely could get benefit of some extra hardware for testing, so if you could provide us with dedicated remote access for benchmarks it would be...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 17, 2008 | Insight for DBAs
I posted a simple INFORMATION_SCHEMA query to find largest MySQL tables last month and it got a good response. Today I needed little modifications to that query to look into few more aspects of data sizes so here it goes: Find total number of tables, rows, total data...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 16, 2008 | Insight for DBAs
What MySQL honestly was never good at is giving good helpful error messages. Start with basics for example – The error message in case of syntax error gives you information about tokens near by but little details: mysql> select * from user oder by pwd; ERROR...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 13, 2008 | Insight for Developers
I think every person responsible for Development or Operations of growing application sooner or later have to decide on couple few questions on how to tackle application performance. These questions are: Should we Optimize Application or get more Hardware ? Should we...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 6, 2008 | Insight for Developers
Andrew Aksenoff is pretty slow with release numbers for Sphinx. By MySQL Users Conference 2007 Sphinx version 0.9.7 was released and today we had just 0.9.8-rc1 announced This minor change in version number corresponds to about double source size (looking at download...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 27, 2008 | Benchmarks, Percona Events
I got first Sun/MySQL Newsletter Today which among other things lead to the site publishing among other things links to various stuff related to Sun and MySQL and among other things – These Benchmarks This may be great piece of Benchmarks for Sales and Marketing...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 15, 2008 | Insight for Developers
I never liked how build in WordPress search works. it shows full documents rather than snippets it does not search comments and it does not have any query language so I always used Google search if I wanted to find something on MySQL Performance Blog. Today we have...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 14, 2008 | Percona Events
As some of you surely know already I’m moving back to USA, so does Vadim. From very beginning we had much more business from US than from rest of the world combined so this is a great step in company development having more comfortable time zones for our...
