by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 22, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
I do not know if it is because we’re hosting a free webinar on migrating MyISAM to Innodb or some other reason but recently I see a lot of questions about migration from MyISAM to Innodb. Webinar will cover the process in a lot more details though I would like...
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 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 Baron Schwartz | Oct 21, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
We’ve published our first case study. The customer, ideeli, had a database that was struggling on standard MySQL and InnoDB. The big win was the upgrade to XtraDB. The business continued to grow quickly, and months later under much more traffic, the database is...
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 11, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Events
Vadim and I have just published a new technical white paper. It shows how Percona Server with XtraDB can make large-scale multi-tenant databases easier to build with MySQL. Our experiences working with SaaS and shared-hosting companies influenced the features we...
by Aleksandr Kuzminsky | Sep 27, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel11.4 is now available for download. The changes in this release include: New features The primary purpose of this release is to update to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Percona Server 5.1.50-rel11.4 is now based on...
by Aleksandr Kuzminsky | Sep 10, 2010 | Percona Software
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.49-rel11.3 is now available for download. The changes in this release include: New features Percona Server 5.1.49-rel11.3 is based on MySQL 5.1.49. A new variable was introduced: innodb_use_sys_stats_table. If ON, the...
by Aleksandr Kuzminsky | Jun 21, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Dear Community, Percona Server version 5.1.47-rel11.0 is available for download now. The changes in this release include: New features Percona Server is now based on MySQL 5.1.47, and XtraDB is now based on InnoDB plugin 1.0.8. XtraDB now uses the fast recovery code...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 10, 2010 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I just wrote a large post on reasons for innodb main tablespace excessive growth and I thought it would make sense to explain briefly of why it is so frequently you have purge not being the problem at all and when out of no where you can see purge thread being unable...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 25, 2010 | Benchmarks, MySQL
This is my last post in series on FlashCache testing when the cache is placed on Intel SSD card. This time I am using tpcc-like workload with 1000 Warehouses ( that gives 100GB of data) on Dell PowerEdge R900 with 32GB of RAM, 22GB allocated for buffer pool and I put...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 26, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
I did some drawing exercise and put XtraDB / InnoDB internals in Visio diagram: The XtraDB differences and main parameters are marked out. PDF version is there https://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/percona-xtradb:internals:start.
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 21, 2010 | Benchmarks, MySQL
MySQL-5.5.4 ® is the great release with performance improvements, let’s see how it performs in tpcc-like workload. The full details are on Wiki page https://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/benchmark:mysql:554-tpcc:start I took MySQL-5.5.4 with InnoDB-1.1,...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 8, 2010 | Hardware and Storage, MySQL
While a scale-out solution has traditionally been popular for MySQL, it’s interesting to see what room we now have to scale up – cheap memory, fast storage, better power efficiency. There certainly are a lot of options now – I’ve been meeting...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 26, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
In XtraDB we have the table INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_PAGES_INDEX which shows which pages belong to which indexes in which tables. Using thing information and standard TABLES table we can see how well different tables fit in buffer pool. SELECT d.*, ROUND(100 * cnt * 16384 /...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 20, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
In Released and new coming features I did not mentioned two additional INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables available in XtraDB: It is INNODB_TABLE_STATS INNODB_INDEX_STATS These table show statistics about InnoDB tables ( taken from InnoDB data dictionary). INNODB_TABLE_STATS...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 17, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Recently Alexandr announced new Percona-XtraDB-9.1 release, and now it is good time to summarize features we have and what is expected soon. This release contains long waited features from 5.0: extended slow.log USER/TABLE/INDEX/CLIENT_STATISTICS + THREAD_STATISTICS (...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 28, 2010 | Benchmarks, MySQL
I recently was asked what maximal amount transactions per second we can get using MySQL and XtraDB / InnoDB storage engine if we have high-end server. Good questions, though not easy to answer, as it depends on: – durability setting (...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 20, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
We recently released XtraDB-9, and while we did not highlight it in announcement, the release-making feature is ability to save and restore InnoDB buffer pool. The idea is not new and was originally developed by Jeremy Cole (sorry, I do not have the link on hands)...
by Aleksandr Kuzminsky | Jan 13, 2010 | MySQL, Percona Software
Dear Community, As of today Release 9 of XtraDB storage engine is available. The release includes following new features: The release is base on 1.0.6 version of InnoDB plugin. MySQL 5.1.42 as a base release Separate purge thread and LRU dump is implemented (this...
