This Monday: Silicon Valley NewSQL Meetup
This week, I was at Percona Live, and it was a lot of fun! I even got to give a talk on write optimization techniques (not just ours), that I’m told will be online soon. But if you missed that, or even...
View ArticleChoosing a MySQL package
As with any open source software, anyone can download MySQL sources, build binaries for some platforms and distribute their own packages. So we have the official ones from Oracle, MariaDB, and Percona...
View ArticleOracle VM Administration: Oracle VM Server for x86 - new Training
Oracle VM Administration: Oracle VM Server for x86 - new course just released. This 3 day hands-on course teaches students how to build a virtualization platform using the Oracle VM Manager and Oracle...
View ArticleThe Ubuntu Developer Summit
The Ubuntu Developer Summit takes place at The Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California from 7–11 May 2012. If your attending this event, you will have a few different MySQL opportunities to...
View ArticleLog Buffer #267, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
It seems like yesterday that the blogs appeared. Over the years they have proved to be of much value for the technical and not-so-technical masses. The big boom in this social media outlet has enabled...
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Help me polish MySQL in openSUSE 12.2
If you are following news regarding openSUSE and MySQL, you probably already know, that we have both MySQL and MariaDB in openSUSE to allow users to choose what they want to use. And if these two...
View ArticleSpeaking at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
This week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo. This was the first year it was not the O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo, and also the first time Oracle...
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Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012
It is the day after the conference ended and I feel great. Two days of percona live and a day of skysql, drizzle and sphynx presentations were just awesome. I can say that IMHO it is one of the best...
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Oracle Missed at MySQL User Conference...Not!
The MySQL UC this past week was the best in years. Percona did an outstanding job of organizing the main Percona Live event that ran Tuesday through Thursday. About 1000 people attended, which is up...
View ArticleAn excellent conference (5 out of 5 stars)
I wanted to extend thanks as others have also about the excellent annual MySQL Conference, now a Percona Live event. This was easily the best run, attended and energetic event in at least the past 3...
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MySQL DoS
There is a nice demo of MySQL Bug 13510739 on Eric Romang's blogI've published this blog to make this content available on planet.mysql.com.PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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Backup your sandbox with XtraBackup
Today I tried to make incremental backups of a MariaDB instance in a MySQL sandbox with Percona XtraBackup.I used the recently released XtraBackup 2.0. And of course there is documentation about making...
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20 Real-World Use Cases to help pick a better MySQL replication scheme
Darpan Dinker (VP of Engineering at Schooner) presented a talk on "MySQL Replication Pros-Cons: Which replication mechanism to choose and why" at Percona Live conference last week. The presentation...
View ArticleIt's *that time* of the year
Even without attending the Percona Live conference in Santa Clara, you could tell something big was going on. One way of measuring it was by looking at the flow of announcements. Here's a brief list,...
View ArticleMySQL Connect Call for Papers Open Now, until May 6
MySQL Connect will take place in San Francisco September 29 and 30; you can read the Press Release here. The call for papers is open until May 6, submit your sessions now! This is your chance to...
View ArticleSpeak at NoSQL matters 2012 in Berlin, 29-30 May 2012
Provided I manage to get a visa, I should speak about Tarantool at nosql-matters.org conference, in Cologne, this May.Judging by the invited speaker crowd this is going to be more a technology (lots of...
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The Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012
Thank you very much if you attended my session at the Percona Live MySQL Conference! I promised some people to share my slides, so I posted them on the page at Percona: Spil Games: Outgrowing an...
View ArticleOptimizing neighbor flush behavior
The performance of flush_list flushing of InnoDB decides the basic performance for modifying workloads. So, it is important to optimize the flush behavior. In this post we’ll consider how to optimize...
View ArticleCan’t Travel to Collaborate 12? Plug-in Virtually Instead! (revised schedule)
Plug-in to Vegas The program focuses on key topics such as high availability, virtualization, security, business intelligence, Exadata, Cloud Computing and internals. Recently added, we switched...
View ArticleMySQL 2012 Percona conference day 2 part 1
Using and benchmarking Galera in different architectures ============================================= What I was interested most during the second day was again, synchronous replication and...
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