by Roel Van de Paar | Mar 17, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Services
MySQL QA Episode #1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun This episode consists of 13 parts, and an introduction. See videos below In HD quality (set your player to 720p!) Introduction Part 1: echo, ls, cp, rm, vi, cat, df, du, tee, cd, clear, uname,...
by Roel Van de Paar | Mar 17, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Services
Welcome to the MySQL QA Training Series! If you have not read our introductory blog post on pquery yet, I’d recommend reading that one first to get a bit of background. The community is enthuastic about pquery, and today I am happy to announce a full training...
by Matt Griffin | Feb 18, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona has submitted seven talks for the next Voting ends February 23, and if you aren’t already an OpenStack Foundation member (required to vote), you can join now for free MySQL and OpenStack Deep Dive Speakers: Peter Boros, Jay Pipes (Mirantis) MySQL on Ceph...
by Justin Swanhart | Feb 17, 2015 | MySQL
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...
by Michael Coburn | Jan 23, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
For months when speaking with customers I have been positioning Percona Cloud Tools (PCT) as a valuable tool for the DBA/Developer/SysAdmin but only recently have I truly been able to harness the data and make a technical recommendation to a customer that I feel would...
by Liz van Dijk | Jan 16, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events
As you may already be aware, FOSDEM and its wonderful MySQL and Friends track are once again descending upon the campus of the ULB in Brussels, Belgium. Logically, a traditional MySQL and Friends Community Dinner must follow! Signups for that dinner, on January 31,...
by Kortney Runyan | Jan 13, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Today we announced the full conference sessions schedule for April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 and this year’s event, once again at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara and Santa Clara Convention Center, looks to be the biggest yet with networking and...
by Przemysław Malkowski | Jan 5, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Sometimes it is desired to use particular software versions in production, and not necessary the latest ones. There may be several reasons for that, where I think the most common is when a new version should spend some time in testing or a staging environment before...
by Rich.Prohaska | Dec 17, 2014 | MySQL
TokuDB offers high throughput for write intensive applications, and the throughput scales with the number of concurrent clients. However, when the binary log is turned on, TokuDB 7.5.2 throughput suffers. The throughput scaling problem is caused by a poor...
by Tom Diederich | Dec 15, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
The many hours of intensive tutorials, led by some of the top minds in MySQL, have always been a major draw each year to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. And 2015’s event will be no exception. Percona Live 2015 runs April 13-16 in Santa Clara, Calif....
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 9, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
On behalf of the OpenStack Live Conference Committee, I am excited to announce the sneak peek schedule for the inaugural OpenStack Live 2015 Conference! This new annual conference, running in parallel with the already established Percona Live MySQL Conference and...
by Peter Boros | Dec 4, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
Fact: MySQL is the most commonly used database in OpenStack deployments. Of course that includes a number of MySQL variants – standard MySQL by Oracle, MariaDB, Percona Server, MySQL Galera, Percona XtraDB Cluster, etc. However, there are many misconceptions and...
by Tom Diederich | Dec 4, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
You know you’ll be there so why not save some $$ by registering now for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 (April 13-16 in Santa Clara, Calif.). Super Saver registration discounts are available through Dec. 14 at 11:30 p.m. PST. (That’s just 10...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live MySQL Conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-16, 2015) features a full day of tutorial sessions and three full days with keynote talks and breakout sessions from leading MySQL experts from around the world. Birds of a Feather sessions, two networking...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The OpenStack Live conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-14, 2015) will emphasize the essential elements of making OpenStack perform better with emphasis on the critical role of MySQL and Trove. If you use OpenStack and have a story to share or a skill to teach, we...
by Frederic Descamps | Oct 27, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events
You can already feel the cold of February coming slowly… you can also smell waffles, fries and see a large amount of beards walking around with laptops… you are right, FOSDEM is coming! And as every year, the MySQL Community will also be present! For the...
by Tim.Callaghan | Oct 16, 2014 | MySQL
In a few weeks I’m presenting “Performance Benchmarking: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned” at Percona Live London 2014 (November 3-4). I continue to learn lessons and improve my benchmarking capabilities, so the content is a full upgrade from my...
by Rich.Prohaska | Aug 6, 2014 | MySQL
Covering indexes can result in orders of magnitude performance improvements for queries. Bradley’s presentation on covering indexes describes what a covering index is, how it can effect performance, and why it works. However, the definition of a covering index...
by Tim.Callaghan | Apr 4, 2014 | MySQL
The MySQL community continues to amaze me, everyone is friendly and always willing to answer questions and help others. It’s always nice to meet people in-person that I’ve met virtually in the last 12 months. Percona Live 2014 MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara...
