We were delighted last week to find out that we’d been named one of the ‘2013 Top 100 Europe’ winning companies by the Red Herring editorial team. Congratulations to all companies involved!
Apr
21
2013
Apr
21
2013
We were delighted last week to find out that we’d been named one of the ‘2013 Top 100 Europe’ winning companies by the Red Herring editorial team. Congratulations to all companies involved!
Apr
21
2013
This article inspired by benchmark results published by Alexey @Percona
related to the "trx_list" modifications came with latest Percona Server 5.5. I was particularly
curious about this feature, because the exactly the same solution
was rejected by Sunny two years ago while analyzed this kind of
problems (described within presented bug report and
others)..
But well, one real test result is better than many discussions,
so let's see what kind of results I will get on my own server.
I'll test the same OLTP_RO Point-Select workload using 8 tables
(by running 8 Sysbench processes in parallel). I'd say that this
kind of load was initially pretty …
Apr
20
2013
MySQL 5.6 @ Facebook development tree
Steaphan is a hero (well, everyone else on database engineering team are too) and he is driving efforts to publish MySQL 5.6 changes we’re making to the open. Now they’re on the github (yet not in production, we’re in active testing though with our workloads).
Apr
20
2013
I recently wrote about Where are they now: MySQL Storage Engines and The MERGE storage engine: not dead, just resting…. or forgotten. Today, it’s the turn of the MEMORY storage engine – otherwise known as HEAP.
This is yet another piece of the MySQL server that sits largely unmaintained and unloved. The MySQL Manual even claims that it supports encryption… with the caveat of having to use the SQL functions for encryption/decryption rather than in the engine itself (so, basically, it supports encryption about as much as every other engine does).
The only …
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Apr
19
2013
Stewart Smith recently questioned the current relevance of the MERGE storage engine, and it prompted me to finish a similar recent exercise I’ve been thinking about related to MySQL clients (UPDATE: and programs). This originally came up when I listed the contents of the MySQL bin directory:
D:\mysql-advanced-5.6.11-win32>dir bin\*.exe
Volume in drive D is Data
Volume Serial Number is 4015-B2FF
Directory of D:\mysql-advanced-5.6.11-win32\bin
04/05/2013 06:52
AM
123,392 echo.exe
04/05/2013 06:53
AM 4,696,064
innochecksum.exe
04/05/2013 06:54
AM 5,084,672
myisamchk.exe
…
Apr
19
2013
Percona Server for MySQL version 5.1.68-14.6
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.68 -14.6 on April 19, 2013 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.68, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.68-14.6, a MySQL alternative, is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All …
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Apr
19
2013
I don’t get to say this often, but “I’m hiring” (at Percona):
I’ve been with Percona for about 5 years, so I can tell you: it’s probably the best company to work at: great pay, great benefits, great people, and truly driven by a desire to do right by customers and do good work. What more can you ask for? Of course, all these jobs are MySQL-related: Perl + MySQL, PHP + MySQL–maybe the UI/UX job less so, but still close enough.
Apr
19
2013
Instant Innodb, by Matt Reid
This book does a good job of explaining the InnoDB internals. I have found particularly useful the section where it describe in detail all the server variables affecting InnoDB. Although these variables are also in the MySQL manual, some of them have never been explained to me as thoroughly as this book as done.
The title claims that it is a InnoDB reference. If is more than that, as the reference part id covered in three chapters. The rest of the book gives useful advice on maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Apr
19
2013
Join in our Finnish ritual, next Friday, at the closing of MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day after Percona Live!