by Baron Schwartz | Jan 16, 2011 | Percona Events
After more than four years of using a theme that can charitably be described as rustic, we’ve updated our look. We’re using the News theme from StudioPress, which is a bargain; their themes and theme framework are an engineering marvel. We’re still...
by Evgeniy Stepchenko | May 18, 2010 | Percona Events
We have had been using Akismet as our primary antispam tool for quite a while. It works okay, but recently we have started to get the feeling we need a better solution. With Akismet were still burdened with a lot of manual moderation for false negatives and scanning...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 28, 2008 | Insight for DBAs
Ever wonder what is stored in InnoDB buffer pool at the moment ? It is not so hard actually – we made a short patch for MySQL 5.0 which show innodb buffer pool content mysql> select * from information_schema.INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_CONTENT;...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 15, 2008 | Insight for Developers
I never liked how build in WordPress search works. it shows full documents rather than snippets it does not search comments and it does not have any query language so I always used Google search if I wanted to find something on MySQL Performance Blog. Today we have...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Dec 16, 2007 | Percona Events
I published slides from my two talks from our Egypt company meeting. First one is about Sphinx search engine. The originally presentation was prepared by Andrew Aksenoff, author of Sphinx for HighLoad.ru conference, I translated it on English for our meeting. And...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 12, 2007 | Percona Events
So we’re back from the company meeting which took place last week in Hurghada, Egypt. It was a great opportunity to meet a lot of people for the first time in person to work together and have some fun. Because of charter flight schedule this was rather long...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 12, 2007 | Insight for DBAs
At Percona we are pleased to announce couple of services which should be helpful to MySQL Community and which are not offered by MySQL, Oracle and other companies I know about. First we now do Data Recovery for MySQL. We’re mainly focused on Innodb with this one...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 26, 2007 | Percona Events
What is the difference between “MySQL Support” and “Support for MySQL” ? In my mind there is not much difference in meaning just first one is shorter and I would use it also because how people would search stuff in Google. It turns out however...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 26, 2007 | Percona Events
Try number two. We have moved to the new server yet again, now it is server hosted by ServerBeach as recommended by Kevin Burton and few other guys. Lets hope this will run stable and we’ll not need to move it back in emergency in less than a week as we had to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 24, 2007 | Percona Events
About three months ago I announced ClickAider to become available to general public. And I think it is about the time to write about the progress we have with this project for those who interested. The project generates decent interest and we have about 3000 sites...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 17, 2007 | Percona Events
I already wrote once about hosting troubles which we had with this site a while back. Today we had another trouble to one of the European hit servers for ClickAider project. We had purchased this 1and1 server few months ago, before we were running into troubles and as...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 10, 2007 | Percona Events
As one of my last posts about issues with hosting provider got great response and We got a lot of good advice and offers I decided to ask for advice another problem we have as we’re growing our company – organizing good phone communications. Our goals are...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 31, 2007 | Percona Events
During last one and a half year we had pretty good track record with MySQL Performance Blog – there were times when site was slow (especially when backup was running) but I do not remember significant downtime, until today we went down for few hours. All this...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 16, 2007 | Percona Events
I noticed today if you go to Yahoo.com and type MySQL to Search field it gives you suggestions for MySQL, which are: * loading javascript arrays with mysql data * mysql performance blog * mysql download * mysql administrator download * mysql front download It may not...
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 11, 2007 | Percona Events
Friends are pointing me to the article saying SpyLOG, the startup which I co-founded back in 1999 was sold the other day to the MasterHost. The amount is not disclosed but it is estimated to be $3M – amount not worth mentioning for USA market but quite decent...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 10, 2007 | Percona Events
Last time I was in Silicon Valley in April after MySQL Users Conference, this time I’m planning to spend July 30 – August 2nd in Silicon Valley after OSCON visiting friends and customers. If you’re located in Silicon Valley or San Francisco area and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 9, 2007 | Percona Events
Let me announce ClickAider – another projects we were working on in stealth mode for last several Months. ClickAider is Hosted Web Statistics system but it tracks Clicks rather than page views as most web counters do. And by clicks I mean not just clicks on the...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 15, 2007 | Percona Events
We’d like to test few things in regards to MySQL and Innodb scalability with multiple CPUs but we seems to be short of boxes right now, all stuff we have access to is in production right now which makes it not good for benchmark. Could anyone lend us access to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 13, 2007 | Insight for Developers
I get a lot of mail and I prefer to store it for long time if not forever. With modern hard disk sizes it should not be problem at all, but because of how mailing programs are written it causes a lot of problems. I’ve tried a lot of programs – Kmail,...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 16, 2007 | Percona Events
A friend pointed out to me number of our our articles were translated and included in PHPInside.RU – electronic magazine about PHP and surrounding technologies which of course include MySQL. You can download PDF for free right here. We love our articles being...
