MariaDB 5.5 is now GA
Well, as you or may not have heard, MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.23) was declared GA last week! It was only about 6-ish weeks ago that MariaDB 5.5 had been released as alpha, so the fact it’s already GA is...
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Seal you next year! A successful MySQL-Friday the 13th in Santa Clara!
The SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database (the first of its kind) took place last Friday (April 13th) in Santa Clara, and we’d like to thank everyone who attended, participated and...
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Welcome, hastexo and PalominoDB, as SkySQL Partners
Last week was full of exciting news for all things MySQL. However, SkySQL also had some great individual news in that it announced 2 new partners: hastexo PalominoDB I just wanted to take a moment and...
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The Road to MySQL CONNECT
Things are going to be busy over thenext few months. I look forward to meeting many of you from theMySQL community over the next few months. I would also like to passalong my thanks for the MySQL...
View ArticleVersion 1.0 of Percona Monitoring Plugins Released
I’m happy to announce that version 1.0 of Percona Monitoring Plugins is now available. The Percona Monitoring Plugins are high-quality plugins, templates, and add-ons for Nagios and Cacti, so you can...
View ArticlePercona Toolkit gripes welcome
What are your pet peeves about the tools? I have a lot. For example, pt-table-sync doesn’t let me do things I want it to do sometimes (and I know it could be made to do them). Another example:...
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Copying unused bytes is bad (duh!)
Last summer my colleague Marko Mäkelä committed this seemingly innocent performance fix for InnoDB in MySQL 5.6:3581 Marko Makela 2011-08-10Bug#12835650 VARCHAR maximum length performance...
View ArticleSetting up AWS RDS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a managed MySQL solution via Relational Database Service (RDS). The following instructions will enable you to configure and run RDS. Refer to Using Amazon Web...
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Percona MySQL Conference and Expo Week in Review
Thanks to all of those who came by our booth and to see Leif’s presentation on Read Optimization, and to my Lightning Talk on OLTP and OLAP at the Percona MySQL Conference and Expo. It was an...
View ArticleWhen is a database schema not a database schema?
mysql> show schemas; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | innodb | | mysql | | performance_schema | +--------------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)...
View ArticleI want a mysqldump –ignore-database option
While working with RDS and Google Cloud SQL I have come to realize that excluding the mysql schema from a mysqldump is important. However with many databases, the –all-databases option enables you only...
View ArticleSetting up Google Cloud SQL
You can activate Google Cloud SQL from the Google APIs Console at https://code.google.com/apis/console. NOTE: At the time of this publication this was in limited beta. From the Google APIs console, you...
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Analyzing I/O performance
There are probably thousands of articles on the Internet about disk statistics in Linux, what various columns mean, how accurate the information is, and so on. I decided to attack the problem from a...
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SkySQL Raises $4 Million in Series A Round Funding
I am very pleased to say that earlier today, SkySQL announced it has raised $4 Million in Series A Round Funding. Let me post the main part of the press release here: SAN JOSE – April 18, 2012 –...
View ArticleCOLLABORATE Social Media Hour – Tue 4/24 1-2p Exhibit Hall (IOUG Booth)
At Collaborate, and on the Web, come on and join us and F2F with the tech-saavy! COLLABORATE Social Media Hour Tues, 4/24, 1–2 pm Exhibit Hall-IOUG Booth There’s no 140 character limit for this meet...
View ArticlePercona MySQL Training Schedule for May, June, & July
Over the coming three months, Percona will be holding our highly acclaimed MySQL courses in the following cities: Dallas, Texas – May 14 – 17, 2012 London, England – May 21 – 24, 2012 Orlando, Florida...
View ArticleIOUG Podcast 18-APR-2012
For the week of April 18th, 2012: Oracle Announces It’s First Sponsored MySQL Conference A New Development Milestone Release of MySQL 5.6 is now available IOUG’s Real World Performance Tour Returns to...
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Congratulations to all of the 2012 Community Contributor Award Winners!
I just wanted to take a moment and say congratulations to all of the 2012 Community Contributor Award Winners! The usual suspects, Baron, Sarah, Gerardo, and Sheeri, each won, and deservedly so. All 4...
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A few hacks to simulate mysqldump --ignore-database
A few days ago, Ronald Bradford asked for a mysqldump –ignore-database option.As a workaround, he proposes:mysqldump --databases `mysql --skip-column-names \ -e "SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(schema_name...
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Percona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany
Percona has 2 talks lined up at OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany: - Taking hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov - Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by Kenny Gryp Feel free to...
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