In this blog, we’ll look at how to manually build Percona Server for MySQL RPM packages. Several customers and other people from the open source community have asked us how they could make their own Percona Server for MySQL RPM binaries from scratch. This request is often made by companies that want to add custom patches […]
Read MoreWant to tweet out a personalized holiday video to your friends? Heckenlights is a Christmas lights installation playing Christmas songs that lets viewers customize and share it. Heckenlights was created by software developer Mark Paluch (@mp911de) who thought it was time to introduce some American-style holiday bling to his hometown of Weinheim, Germany. A year ago, […]
Read MoreThe Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 is just two months away. I’m very excited about this year’s event which continues our tradition of open technical discussions and inviting all parties to the table. We have a great amount of technical talks from Oracle – I’m especially excited about future-focused talks shedding some light […]
Read MoreI recently blogged on setting up Experimental Git mirror of Oracle MySQL trees up on GitHub. I’m now happy to announce that there are also mirrors for: Percona Server Percona XtraBackup Percona Playback I’ve also updated the Oracle MySQL GIT mirror to include MySQL 5.7 and the (now abandoned) MySQL 6.0. I include the abandoned […]
Read MoreSuppose you want to remove auto_increment from 100G table. No matter if it’s InnoDB or MyISAM, you’d usually ALTER TABLE huge_table CHANGE id id int(6) NOT NULL and then wait hours for table rebuild to complete. If you’re unlucky i.e. you have a lot of indexes and not too much RAM – you could end […]
Read MoreIts almost a month since I promised Heikki Tuuri to answer Innodb Questions. Heikki is a busy man so I got answers to only some of the questions but as people still poking me about this I decided to publish the answers I have so far. Plus we may get some interesting follow up questions […]
Read MoreWhat is the difference between “MySQL Support” and “Support for MySQL” ? In my mind there is not much difference in meaning just first one is shorter and I would use it also because how people would search stuff in Google. It turns out however there is significant legal differences – first one would be […]
Read MoreTry number two. We have moved to the new server yet again, now it is server hosted by ServerBeach as recommended by Kevin Burton and few other guys. Lets hope this will run stable and we’ll not need to move it back in emergency in less than a week as we had to last time. […]
Read MoreOK, I am not getting too much people feedback on what would they like to hear about on MySQL Users Conference, so I went ahead and submitted few presentation ideas. I do not expect all of them would be accepted, furthermore it would be hard to prepare so many good presentations if they are so […]
Read MoreAbout three months ago I announced ClickAider to become available to general public. And I think it is about the time to write about the progress we have with this project for those who interested. The project generates decent interest and we have about 3000 sites Registered over this time, which I consider decent number […]
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