Oracle has released news about changing policies of MySQL Enterprise Support effectively dropping annual support for Basic and Silver. The entry level support is now $3000 per server per year. The MySQL support team now part of Oracle has great resources however Oracle is in the business of making money. When a general company question for OOW is company income, and the first option is < $50 million it highlights that startups, and smaller companies are clearly not a focus.

The success of MySQL as an open source company has lead to other leading providers that now can provide enterprise level support. More importantly many organizations over per-incident support which is more cost effect. News in the past week has included Percona - …

We've just announced a new support offering for MySQL. There's a press release here, and product information page here. But what does this new service really mean for you, in practical terms? This is actually important -- it will open up a range of new choices for you. I'll explain two major points that matter to you.

Before I begin, I want to make it clear that in some ways, what we're offering is something we've always offered. That is actually why it took us a while to re-align the product a bit. We thought we were serving you fully. You told us that wasn't really true. Thank you. We've listened.

1. Sensible Pricing

We've always offered pay-as-you-go support, and we've had a dedicated support staff for a while. The missing ingredient was flat-rate pricing. Big …

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During my visit to Moscow, Russia next month I’m going to give a full day training/tutorial presentation on Diagnosing and Fixing MySQL Performance Problems . This even will be based on updated and expanded tutorial from MySQL Conference & Expo which was so popular it was sold out earlier this year. This also will be the only full day training event open to the public during this trip. There are few conference talks, user meetings and private training engagements which I’m doing on this trip as well. I’ll blog about these later.

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Dear Community,

Starting with this release, we introduce a new release model for Percona Server. From now on, we will have both Stable and Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates will introduce new features not yet available in Stable releases.

Along with new features, our new 5.1.49-12.0 RC contains a couple of patches from the Facebook-MySQL tree - https://launchpad.net/mysqlatfacebook . Of particular note is better integration with FlashCache.

We also introduce the very interesting new feature called ”Permanent InnoDB Buffer Pool”  (sponsored by a Well Known Social Network site). It allows you to keep the InnoDB buffer pool in memory between restarts of MySQL servers.
This can result in a significant decrease in warmup time after MySQL restarts.

Starting with this release, we will also provide special …

We're opening up registration for our new training courses today.  In short: we are moving from two days to a new four-day format.  The new additions are created by:

• Splitting our current InnoDB day in half. We now have one day for DBAs, and one day just on InnoDB topics.
• A new Operations Day - covering how to maintain MySQL in production.

Our developer course has also undergone revision, and we now have more query tuning examples, and a new instrumentation chapter.

What is operations training?

Many companies split their …

Recently we had couple posts dedicated to performance monitoring, i.e. Color code your performance numbers, Performance Optimization and Six Sigma, so you may understand we consider stability of performance numbers as one of important area for database management.

That's why we decided to add histogram of queries response times into Percona Server, and our software engineer Oleg Tsarev implemented this feature. The feature adds new INFORMATION_SCHEMA table QUERY_RESPONSE_TIME
( full docs are on page response_time_distribution), which looks like

time count
0.000001 53
…

Percona is pleased to officially welcome Justin Swanhart to our team of consultants.

Before joining Percona, Justin worked as a MySQL DBA at Gazillion, Yahoo, and Kickfire. Justin has become a regular contributor here on the MySQL Performance Blog as well as being an active blogger at http://swanhart.livejournal.com/. He is very active in the community, maintaining FlexViews, a stored procedure managed solution for materialized view creation and maintenance in MySQL 5.1 as well as instrumentation-for-php, a suite of PHP classes for easing the implementation of instrumentation in applications.

Justin, a big welcome - we are fortunate indeed you're working with us!

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In The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines, Peter talks about how the storage engine concept of MySQL is usually spoken of in positive terms, but there are many negatives.

I have a hard time trying to figure out the deeper meaning behind Peter’s post, given that Percona writes a storage engine for MySQL, XtraDB. Does this mean that Percona will stop developing XtraDB? Does this mean that the Percona Server will diverge farther and farther away from MySQL so that they’re not compatible any more and migrating from MySQL to Percona Server is very difficult?

Or maybe it’s just that Peter is saying one thing and doing the opposite; which just seems wrong because that would be blatant hypocrisy on Percona’s part.

(This idea was a comment on the blog post but seems to be trapped in the spam filter, so I’m …

Been asked a few times in the last few days about where my slides are from my MySQL keynote from *last* year.

Ooops.

Um, yeah.  Sorry about that.  Here’s a link to ‘The SmugMug Tale’ slides, and you can watch the video below:

Sorry for the extreme lag.  I suck.

The important highlights go something like this:

• Use transactional replication.  Without it, you’re dead in the water. You have no idea where a crashed slave was.
• Use a …