by Kortney Runyan | Oct 20, 2015 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
The Call for Papers for the fifth annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo (formerly MySQL Conference and Expo) taking place April 18-21, 2016, in Santa Clara, California, is now officially open! Ask yourself… “Do I have…” Fresh...
by Jim Doherty | Oct 18, 2015 | Percona Events
This year’s Percona Live for Europe proved to be a turning point for the conference. First and most obvious was the change of venue. After several years in London we decided to move the show to Amsterdam and we were quite pleased. The weather was not much different...
by Kortney Runyan | Sep 10, 2015 | Percona Events
The countdown for the annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo in Europe continues with today’s announcement of our keynote speakers! This three-day conference focuses on the latest trends, news and best practices in the MySQL, NoSQL and data in the...
by Kortney Runyan | Aug 18, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Events, Percona Live
In the past years, both MySQL 5.6, MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB 10 have been successful implementing new features. For many DBAs, the “old way” of replicating data is comfortable so taking the action to implement these new features seems like a momentous leap...
by Tom Diederich | Aug 13, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Storage. Everyone needs it. Whether your data is in MySQL, a NoSQL, or somewhere in the cloud, with ever-growing data volumes – along with the need for SSDs to cut latency and replication to provide insurance – an organization’s storage footprint is an...
by Kortney Runyan | Jun 10, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Percona Live is moving from London to Amsterdam this year and the event is also expanding to three full days. Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23, will be at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre. The call for speakers and Super Saver registration are now...
by Sveta Smirnova | Apr 30, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
In version MySQL 5.7.7 Oracle presented a new promising feature: optimizer hints. However it did not publish any documentation about the hints. The only note which I found in the user manual about the hints is: It is now possible to provide hints to the optimizer by...
by Tom Diederich | Apr 24, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
With highlights that included news of Percona’s acquisition of Tokutek, a lively keynote discussion with Apple legend Steve “Woz” Wozniak, scores of technical sessions, tutorials and a festive MySQL community dinner and game night, last week’s...
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Apr 13, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Software
I’ve started my long journey from Florianópolis, Brazil, to Santa Clara, California and I type this words while waiting for a connection flight. Next Wednesday, Daniel Guzmán Burgos and I will be presenting in the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (PLMCE)....
by Nilnandan Joshi | Apr 9, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Recently, I was working on one of the issue related to locks and deadlocks with InnoDB tables and I found very interesting details about how InnoDB locks and deadlocks works with or without index for different Isolation levels. Here, I would like to describe a small...
by Valerii Kravchuk | Apr 7, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Services
Two years ago Ovais Tariq had explained in detail what kinds of problems existed before MySQL introduced metadata locks in 5.5.3 and how these locks help to prevent them. Still, some implications of metadata locking in MySQL remain unclear for users – DBAs and...
by Tom Diederich | Mar 27, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Here’s your chance to get on stage with Woz! Sort of. Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist Steve Wozniak will participate in a moderated Q&A on creativity and innovation April 14 during the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 27, 2015 | MySQL
TechCrunch reported yesterday that Apple has acquired FoundationDB. And while I didn’t see any mention if this news on the FoundationDB website, they do have an announcement saying: “We have made the decision to evolve our company mission and, as of today,...
by Tom Diederich | Mar 25, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses, Yelp has some 135 million monthly unique visitors. With those traffic volumes Yelp’s 300+ engineers are constantly working to keep things moving smoothly – and when you move that fast you learn many...
by Matt Griffin | Mar 24, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Services, Percona Software
Percona Toolkit is one of our most mature open source applications. Derived from Maatkit and Aspersa, Percona Toolkit has evolved significantly over the years. The software now contains 32 tools, over 4,000 tests, and has been downloaded over 250,000 times. Anyone who...
by George O. Lorch III | Mar 18, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
So you want to contribute to OpenStack? I can help! For the last year or so I have been involved with OpenStack and more specifically the Trove (DBaaS) project as sort of an ambassador for Percona, contributing bits of knowledge, help and debugging wherever I could...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 5, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
I am thrilled to announce that Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist Steve Wozniak will participate in a moderated Q&A on creativity and innovation April 14 during this year’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California....
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 3, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
Talking with Percona Live attendees last year I heard a couple of common themes. First, people told me that there is a lot of great advanced content at Percona Live but there is not much for people just starting to learn the ropes with MySQL. Second, they would like...
by Kortney Runyan | Feb 3, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
It’s hard to believe that the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is just over two months away (April 13-16 in Santa Clara, California). So if you’ve been thinking about submitting a proposal for the popular “Lightning Talks” and/or...
by Kortney Runyan | Jan 30, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
This April 13-14 Percona is introducing an annual conference called OpenStack Live. I’ve seen a few questions about the new event so decided to help clarify what this show is about and who should attend. Unlike OpenStack Summits, held twice a year and dedicated to...
