by Dave Avery | Apr 28, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Storage Engine
From everyone at Percona and Percona Live 2017, we’d like to send a big thank you to all our sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees at this year’s conference. This year’s conference was an outstanding success! The event brought the open source database community...
by Dave Avery | Apr 26, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
The afternoon at Percona Live 2017 is slipping by quickly, and people are still actively looking for sessions to attend – like the session I just sat in on histograms in MySQL and MariaDB. Histograms are a type of column statistic that provides more detailed...
by Dave Avery | Apr 25, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
The Percona Live Open Source Data Conference 2017 day one is rolling right along, and we’re already in the afternoon sessions. In this blog, we’ll look at Citus Data’s presentation on how to design your SaaS database to scale with Postgres. If you’re...
by Dave Avery | Apr 6, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured session blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the session speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these sessions can help you improve your database...
by Sveta Smirnova | Mar 1, 2017 | MySQL, Open Source
In this blog post, I’ll look for the bottleneck that prevented the performance in my previous post from achieving better results. The powerful machine I used in the tests in my previous post has a comparatively slow disk, and therefore I expected my tests would...
by Dave Avery | Oct 4, 2016 | Percona Live
Day one of Percona Live Europe 2016 is coming to a close, but the sessions keep coming. The afternoon contained just as many packed presentations as the morning, with the same enthusiastic transfer of knowledge. In getting Percona Live Europe 2016 ready this year,...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 25, 2016 | MySQL
Introducing PostgreSQL Day at Percona Live Europe, Amsterdam 2016. As modern open source database deployments change, often including more than just a single open source database, Percona Live has also changed. We changed our model from being a purely MySQL-focused...
by Roman Vynar | Jan 7, 2015 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
This is yet another story of Django web-framework with time zone support and pain dealing with python datetimes and MySQL on the backend. In other words, offset-naive vs offset-aware datetimes. Shortly, more about the problem. After reading the official documentation...
