The dawn of MySQL-fork database vendors?
I must admint I was greatly impressed by the Oracle activity on MySQL yesterday. I cannot say I didn’t see it was coming, but most certainly the magnitude of what happened, the flood of announcements,...
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IT Operations in a cloud based environment -What would a team structure look...
Eric Ries' lean movement is picking up steam and is really extending agile software development to the wider organisation. Its interesting to see over time how some organisations have changed in a more...
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Juniper VPN in Fedora
Whilst I am not a fan of Juniper Network Connect in the last few years I have had to connect to several networks that use it. The biggest problem with it is that it is a combination of Java and a...
View ArticlePercona Conference - we are here and we are hiring
It is that time of the year, again: Percona Live is the name of this years MySQL conference in the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency. Booking.com is there, and we are hiring, looking specifically for Admins...
View ArticleNew MySQL 5.6 Replication Utilities – mysqlfailover and mysqlrpladmin
With all of the new news coming out right now, it can be easy to miss or overlook some of the new features. While there’s been a lot of talk about MySQL 5.6 Replication, I specifically wanted to...
View ArticleTungsten today at MySQL Conference & Expo
Wednesday, April 11Building a Multi-master, Multi-region Database Infrastructure in Amazon EC2 by Edward Archibald, 11:00 am -11:50 am in Ballroom HBe a Data Management Hero with Good Backups! by...
View ArticleMySQL Conference 2012 – The Keynotes (1)
Here it is finally – the MySQL conference 2012 starts with the Keynote Sessions. The first keynote speech is by Peter Zaitsev, founder of Percona and a very smart guy and also by Baron Schwartz...
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TokuDB v6.0: Even Better Compression
A key feature of our new TokuDB v6.0 release, which I have been blogging about this week, is compression. Compression is always on in TokuDB, and the compression we’ve achieved in the past has been...
View ArticleSkySQL Enterprise HA customers can now tap into hastexo’s high-availability...
The second day of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is off to a great start! We’re excited here in Santa Clara to share the news that we’re teaming up with hastexo to further enhance expert...
View ArticleMySQL Conference 2012 – The Keynotes (2)
The next keynote is from Marten Mickos, now with Eucalyptus systems, previously CEO of MySQL AB. He’s talking about making LAMP a Cloud. No surprises there, Eucalyptus is the leading open-source cloud...
View ArticleMySQL Conference 2012 – The Keynotes (3)
And lastly, from none other than The Brian Aker, a keynote on The New MySQL Cloud Ecosystem. He was formerly the Director of Architecture for MySQL and also the creator of Drizzle. He is currently a...
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Performance Schema, nailing the host cache coffin down
Every old mansion has some old history, and the older it is, the scarier it gets ... MySQL is no exception: there are some very old ghosts still lurking inside the server. One of these ghosts is the...
View ArticleAnnouncing MariaDB 5.5.23 GA
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.23. This stable (GA) release incorporates MariaDB 5.3.6 and MySQL 5.5.23, some performance improvements, and bug fixes. MariaDB...
View ArticleIn the News: MySQL, Twitter and the Data Cloud
MySQL is receiving mainstream media attention this week with Twitter publicly deciding to open source work on its MySQL database. Of course, the problems we see every day are being called out. Per...
View ArticleLiveblogging: What’s New In MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 Replication
Liveblog: What’s New In MySQL 5.5 and 5.6 Replication presented by Giuseppe Maxia at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. Has been working with MySQL for 11 years. Yesterday Oracle released...
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Schooner Welcomes Percona’s Entry into the High-Availability MySQL Market
Schooner announced initial benchmarks of SchoonerSQL™ against the new Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a distribution of Percona Server with the Galera HA toolkit.Standard benchmarks...
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Lots of MariaDB releases...
Today we released MariaDB 5.5.23 as stable (GA). The last few days we have also released MariaDB 5.3.6 stable (second GA release) and MariaDB 5.2.12 and MariaDB 5.1.62.The reason for doing the older...
View ArticleMySQL Community Awards 2012: And the winners are...
Winners of the 2012 MySQL Community Awards were announced at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo just a few hours ago: ... In terms of continuing with MySQL traditions, it has been my privilege...
View ArticleMysql HA solutions
Lets see what HA solutions can be designed in mysql and where are they suited. 1. Single master - single slave. M(RW)|S(R) A simple master slave solution can be used for a small site - where all the...
View ArticleMy day at MySQL conference 2012 in Santa Clara day 1.
Key Notes It was simply amazing for me as ex-MySQL AB to be at the conference today.I was really emoted seeing so much people most of the ones I know, all together again.The spirit was again the right...
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