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 Jay Janssen | Jun 18, 2013 | Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) was released over a year ago and since then there has been tremendous interest and adoption. There’s plenty of talks that explain the fundamentals of PXC, but we’re starting to reach a threshold where it’s easier to find...
by Jay Janssen | May 14, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
I talk with lot of people who are really interested in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and mostly they are interested in PXC as a high-availability solution. But, what they tend not to think too much about is if moving from async to synchronous replication is right for...
by Jay Janssen | May 3, 2013 | Percona Software
Few people realize that Galera/Percona XtraDB (PXC) replication can be encrypted via SSL for secure transfer of your replicated data. Setting this up is actually quite easy to do and probably will look familiar to a lot of people. Setting up SSL and Galera Create and...
by Jay Janssen | May 2, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Live, Percona Software
Last week at Percona Live, I delivered a six-hour tutorial about Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL. I actually had more material than I covered (by design), but one thing I regret we didn’t cover was Flow control. So, I thought I’d write a post...
by Jervin Real | May 1, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL is a hot thing right now and some users jump right in without enough testing. Consequently, they’re more likely to either suffer failure or issues that prevent them from moving forward. If you are thinking of...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Apr 17, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.30-23.7.4 for MySQL on April 17, 2013. Binaries are available from the downloads area or from our software repositories. New Features: Percona XtraDB Cluster has implemented initial implementation...
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 Jay Janssen | Apr 1, 2013 | Percona Live, Percona Software
As is typical at the beginning of every April, many of us who submitted talks to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo are wondering why we submitted so many. I had 3 official talks selected, including one that is a 6-hour tutorial, as well as a BoF....
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 20, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live, Percona Software
Percona MySQL University, Toronto is taking place this Friday and I’m very excited about this event because it is a special opportunity to fit a phenomenal number of specific and focused MySQL technical talks all into one day, for free. Over the course of the...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 6, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 3, 2013 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 28, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Following Roel’s post, Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Your own MySQL Database Server , I thought what other crazy gadget can I run Percona Server on? And having an Asus Nexus 7 Android tablet I decided to give it a try. Anything below contains a risk that...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 13, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.29-23.7.2 on February 13th, 2013. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Bugs fixed: DML operations on temporary tables would try to append the key for...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 31, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
With our newest release of Percona XtraDB Cluster, I would like to highlight a very nice ability to recovery a node and bring it back to the cluster with an incremental transfer after a crash. This feature was available even in previous release, but now I want to give...
by Tom Diederich | Jan 9, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 was released today and the new version comes with some pretty cool news: Beta support for MySQL 5.6 (which as you might know is also in beta). In addition to various bug fixes, Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 also offers beta support for Percona XtraDB...
