by Ryan Lowe | Dec 30, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is pleased to officially (and belatedly) welcome Sasha Pachev to our team of consultants. Before joining Percona, Sasha worked as an independent MySQL consultant. Sasha was the original implementer and maintainer of MySQL replication from 3.23 to 4.02. He is...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 29, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.53-12.4 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4 is based on MySQL 5.1.53.  New Features Added: Precompiled UDFs for Maatkit (FNV and...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 16, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.53-11.7 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7 is now based on MySQL...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Dec 14, 2010 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Just yesterday we released Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 which includes HandlerSocket. This is third-party plugin, developed by Akira Higuci, DeNA Co., Ltd and explained in Yoshinori Matsunobu’s blog post. What is so special about it: It provides NOSQL-like...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release also includes the HandlerSocket plugin, which provides NoSQL features...
by Fred Linhoss | Dec 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download. This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general availability version of XtraBackup. This is a beta release. Functionality Added or Changed Support for MySQL 5.5...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 9, 2010 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Understanding how well your tables and indexes fit to buffer pool are often very helpful to understand why some queries are IO bound and others not – it may be because the tables and indexes they are accessing are not in cache, for example being washed away by...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 1, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
We had some technical difficulties with Webex today which prevented from all registered attendees to be able to join webinar. I personally would be very upset having booked my time to attend event, pre-registered to ensure there is a space available and when unable to...
by Fred Linhoss | Nov 23, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server version 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now based on...
by Fred Linhoss | Nov 22, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup 1.4 is now available for download. Version 1.4 fixes problems related to incremental backups. If you do incremental backups, it’s strongly recommended that you upgrade to this release. Functionality Added or Changed Incremental backups have...
by Fernando Ipar | Nov 16, 2010 | Percona Events
As part of our growth process and with the introduction of our Support and Maintenance services, we’re looking for a new Support Engineer. You would be a part of a unit that operates 24×7 and be the first line of contact for our customers. Responsibilities...
by Baron Schwartz | Nov 5, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
You probably saw the Twitter storm over Oracle’s pricing changes and InnoDB in the last few days. The fear about Oracle removing InnoDB from the free version of MySQL was baseless — it was just a misunderstanding. Still, in the years since MySQL has been...
by Fred Linhoss | Oct 28, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Community, Percona Server version 5.1.51-rel11.5 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality Added or Changed  Percona Server 5.1.51-rel11.5...
by Fred Linhoss | Oct 14, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel12.1 RC is now available for download. Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50. New Features Added: innodb_lru_dump_restore – Implemented automatic dumping of the...
by Baron Schwartz | Oct 5, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’ve just announced a new support offering for MySQL. There’s a press release here, and product information page here. But what does this new service really mean for you, in practical terms? This is actually important — it will open up a range of...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 27, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
During my visit to Moscow, Russia next month I’m going to give a full day training/tutorial presentation on Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems . This even will be based on updated and expanded tutorial from MySQL Conference & Expo which was so...
by Aleksandr Kuzminsky | Sep 15, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Dear Community, Starting with this release, we introduce a new release model for Percona Server. From now on, we will have both Stable and Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates will introduce new features not yet available in Stable releases. Along with new...
by Morgan Tocker | Aug 18, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’re opening up registration for our new training courses today. In short: we are moving from two days to a new four-day format. The new additions are created by: Splitting our current InnoDB day in half. We now have one day for DBAs, and one day just on...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 11, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Recently we had couple posts dedicated to performance monitoring, i.e. Color code your performance numbers, Performance Optimization and Six Sigma, so you may understand we consider stability of performance numbers as one of important area for database management....
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 29, 2010 | Percona Software
Percona Server release 11.0 which we announced few days ago unfortunately was released with a bug introduced while implementing stripping comments in query cache which could cause server crash with certain types of queries if query cache is enabled. We have released...
