by Dave Avery | Apr 21, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
We’re heading into the final day here at Percona Live 2016! People are looking a little tired, but still excited for some excellent talks today. Once again the day started off with two great keynote lectures. Read to the end for an important announcement! Peter...
by Dave Avery | Jan 27, 2016 | Percona Events
As a company that believes in and supports the open source community, embracing innovation and change is par for the course at Percona. We wouldn’t be the company we are today without fostering a culture that rewards creative thinking and rapid evolution. Part of this...
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 Peter Zaitsev | Jun 29, 2015 | MySQL, Webinars
Applications often become impacted by MySQL performance. Optimization is the obvious solution but where to start? Join me on July 2 at 11 a.m. Pacific and I’ll show you how to optimize MySQL in a practical way – spending time on what gives you the best...
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 Jay Janssen | Jun 2, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
It seems these days if anyone knows anything about tuning InnoDB, it’s that you MUST tune your innodb_buffer_pool_size to 80% of your physical memory. This is such prolific tuning advice, it seems ingrained in many a DBA’s minds. The MySQL manual to this...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 28, 2015 | MongoDB
If you can make it to Manhattan next Monday, please join me at the MongoDB Community Open House. The June 1 event is free and open to all. It runs from 3:30-6:30 p.m. just across the road from MongoDB World. The MongoDB Community Open House, held at the New York...
by Tom Diederich | May 6, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev and Big Data guru Alexander Rubin will be speaking at Meetups along the East Coast next week with stops in Boston (May 11), New York City (May 12), Philadelphia (May 13) and Baltimore (May 14). Dubbed the “MySQL Whistle-Stop Tour” since...
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 Peter Zaitsev | Apr 21, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
MySQL sharding is one of the most used and surely the most abused MySQL scaling technology. My April 2 Dzone article, “To Shard, or Not to Shard,” proved there is indeed quite an interest in this topic. As such, I’m hosting a live webinar tomorrow...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 14, 2015 | MySQL
It is my pleasure to announce that Percona has acquired Tokutek and will take over development and support for TokuDB® and TokuMX™ as well as the revolutionary Fractal Tree® indexing technology that enables those products to deliver improved performance, reliability...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 2, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Services
Years ago when I worked for the MySQL Support organization at the original MySQL AB, we spoke about MySQL Support as insurance and focused on a value proposition similar to that of car insurance. For your car to be fully covered, you must purchase car insurance before...
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 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 Peter Zaitsev | Jan 27, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL
About two years ago we held our first-ever Percona University event in Raleigh, N.C. It was a great success with high attendance and very positive feedback which led us to organize a number of similar educational events in different locations around the world. And...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 19, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
A few days ago I wrote about MySQL performance implications of InnoDB isolation modes and I touched briefly upon the bizarre performance regression I found with InnoDB handling a large amount of versions for a single row. Today I wanted to look a bit deeper into the...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 14, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL
Over the past few months I’ve written a couple of posts about dangerous debt of InnoDB Transactional History and about the fact MVCC can be the cause of severe MySQL performance issues. In this post I will cover a related topic – InnoDB Transaction...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 8, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Whether you’re looking at the overall MySQL ecosystem or the all-data management landscape, the choice of technologies has never been larger than it is in 2015. Having so many options is great but it also can be very hard to make a selection. I’m going to...
by Arunjith Aravindan | Jan 2, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
The MySQL query cache is one of the prominent features in MySQL and a vital part of query optimization. It is important to know how the MySQL query cache works, as it has the potential to cause significant performance improvements – or a slowdown – of your...
by Bill Karwin | Dec 29, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Some time ago, Peter Zaitsev posted a blog titled “How well does your table fits in innodb buffer pool?” He used some special INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables developed for Percona Server 5.1 to report how much of each InnoDB table and index resides in your...
