by Alexander Rubin | Oct 23, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The upcoming Percona Live London conference, November 11-12, features quite a number of talks about the latest MySQL features and related technologies. There will be a lots of talks about the new MySQL 5.6 features: Opening keynote highlights MySQL 5.6 new features....
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Oct 2, 2013 | MySQL
Recently Oracle announced several new features for the latest available development version of MySQL that is 5.7.2 at the time of writing this article. Most of them are performance and replication related that show us how incredible the new release will be. In this...
by Terry Erisman | Oct 1, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
I’m pleased to announce that speakers from Oracle will join the lineup at the Percona Live London 2013 MySQL conference which is November 11 & 12. Percona Live London 2013 features 4 keynotes, 30 breakout sessions, and 7 tutorials by leading MySQL users and...
by Stewart Smith | Aug 7, 2013 | MySQL, Webinars
Good news everyone! I recently presented a webinar: Percona Server 5.6: Enterprise Grade MySQL. It was also recorded so you can watch along or view the slide deck. As with all my talks, I am not simply reading the slides so it really is worth to listen to the audio...
by Terry Erisman | Apr 29, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 was April 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. This was Percona’s second year organizing the conference and we were very pleased with the event and the feedback (check the #perconalive hashtag for a sampling of the...
by Terry Erisman | Apr 15, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live, Percona Software
The Birds of a Feather sessions on Tuesday night and the Wednesday night Community Networking Reception will be fun and entertaining with the presentation of the Community Awards and the
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 21, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events
I actually don’t remember exactly whether it was in 2006, 2007 or 2008 — but around that time the MySQL community had one of the greatest MySQL conferences put on by O’Reilly and MySQL. It was a good, stable, predictable time. Shortly thereafter, the MySQL...
by kuszmaul | Jul 9, 2012 | MySQL
Solving the Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL When you’re using MySQL for big data (more than ten times as large as main memory), these challenges often arise: loading data fast; maintaining indexes under insertions deletions, and updates; adding and removing...
by Zardosht.Kasheff | Jun 21, 2012 | MySQL
As a TokuDB storage engine developer, numerous times I’ve been struck by the similarities between MySQL Cluster and TokuDB. Namely, many times where I find myself thinking, “TokuDB would benefit from this feature”, I also end up thinking “MySQL...
by Tokutek | Nov 1, 2011 | MySQL
I had the pleasure of being invited to blog at the MassTLC unConference on Friday. The event was a full day of diverse topics and discussions ranging from the latest in recipe sharing sites, to entrepreneurial CEO war stories, to hot trends in venture...
by kuszmaul | Oct 25, 2011 | MySQL
Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting data while maintaining indexes; changing schemas without downtime; and supporting...
by kuszmaul | Oct 1, 2011 | MySQL
Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting data while maintaining indexes;...
