by Vadim Tkachenko | Dec 23, 2008 | Percona Software
As you may know Sun / MySQL made release of community 5.0.75 only as source code release. We made binaries with our patchset. Patches are mostly equal to build 10 https://www.percona.com/blog/2008/12/11/mysql-binaries-percona-build10/, only change: it includes bugfix...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Dec 16, 2008 | Percona Software
Today we officially announce our new storage engine, “Percona XtraDB”, which is based on the InnoDB storage engine. It’s 100% backwards-compatible with standard InnoDB, so you can use it as a drop-in replacement in your current environment. It is...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 14, 2008 | Percona Events
As Giuseppe just reminded MySQL 4.0 is reaching its end of life in about 2 weeks from now. When it becomes unsupported by MySQL via normal support agreements together with 3.23 version. At Percona we do not have such restriction and we will continue to support your...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Dec 11, 2008 | Percona Software
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 10 which include next fixes: We addressed concerns about potential logging and statistics overhead, so now you can fully turn on / off query statistics for microslow patch and user statistics in runtime. Next variables were...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 8, 2008 | Percona Events
Being completely distributed team, meetings are very important for us and this time we went to the Turkey in the end of October (yes, yes I could be faster with sharing photos) This went we went to Turkey, Antalya region, which is a destination which is very easy to...
by Baron Schwartz | Dec 4, 2008 | Percona Events
Percona has a new Chief Operating Officer! It is Tom Basil, who was Employee #11 at MySQL and led the Support organization there for almost eight years. He was the founding Director of Support at MySQL, and built it into a team of about 60 people all across the world....
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 14, 2008 | Percona Software
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 7 which include patches we recently announced. The -percona release includes: | innodb_check_defrag.patch | Session status to check fragmentation of the last InnoDB scan | 1.0 | Percona <[email protected]> | GPL | The...
by Yasufumi Kinoshita | Nov 13, 2008 | Benchmarks, Percona Software
Do you know that there are two limits about dirty (modified but not flushed to disk) blocks of InnoDB buffer pool? One is the limit of “amount”. The other is the limit of “age”. — limit of “amount” — As you know, buffer...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 11, 2008 | Percona Software
After some pause we are going to announce bunch of patches we made and ported for last period. Ported patches (ported from Google V2 patch): – innodb_fsync_source.patch – Show information about callers of fsync, more info – innodb_io_tune.patch...
by Piotr Biel | Nov 5, 2008 | Insight for Developers
Today was epoch day in American history. Maybe even most important day this year, but it’s not what I’d like to write about here. What does it mean for US citizens and all other people around the world? We know, but what does it mean for us – IT...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Nov 1, 2008 | Percona Events
This is a fantastic addition to the Percona team. Congratulations.
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 20, 2008 | Percona Software
There is patch from Google to improve SMP performance , but for some workloads it showed for us reverse scalability. E.g. update_key benchmark from sysbench. There are also results with Yasufumi’s rw_locks (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=26442) ThreadsStandard...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 10, 2008 | Percona Events
I guess many of you know us and so our company for MySQL related services. It is true this is majority of our business at this point but it is far from everything. Our goal in reality is to help people to build and operate quality systems, typically web sites, which...
by Baron Schwartz | Oct 1, 2008 | Percona Events
Although we haven’t announced any new members in a while, the Percona team has continued to grow steadily behind the scenes. Our hiring policy is to have a few months’ provisional period to ensure the absolute highest quality of service and consistency of...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 8, 2008 | Percona Software
We gathered together our ideas of MySQL improvements on this page https://www.percona.com/percona-lab/dev-plan.html and we are going to implement some of them. My favorite one is – make InnoDB files .ibd (one created with –innodb-file-per-table=1) movable...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 6, 2008 | Percona Events
People are asking me if Percona will support Drizzle and what is in general our position regarding this project. First about Support. We surely will support the customers if they select to run the Drizzle instead of MySQL Server. For us it is same as supporting MySQL...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 1, 2008 | Percona Events
July 31st 2006 was my last day working for MySQL and August 1st I started what later was incorporated Percona with Vadim joining me September 1st as co-founder. Two years is a significant anniversary for any startup – surviving (and being profitable) for 2 years...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 31, 2008 | Percona Software
We prepared RPMs of our release for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64 platform. https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql/RPM/RHEL5/5.0.62/ There was question what patcheset includes and if there is manuals. We have: microsecond resolution in slow-log extended query plan in...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 16, 2008 | Percona Software
Percona has a strong team of MySQL developers and consultants on board, so we decided to prepare builds with our patches and third-party patches which we think are very useful. We actually use these internally and for our customers. Current releases include: microslow...
by Baron Schwartz | Jun 24, 2008 | Percona Events
If you’re a Perl and/or Python expert (preferably both), Percona may have a job for you. We’re looking to either hire or sponsor significant development efforts for some open-source tools for MySQL, including but not limited to Maatkit and the...
