Archive for March, 2012
Congratulations to Percona Live Ticket Winners!
It’s taken a little while to sort out the contest logistics, but we’re ready now, so I want to congratulate our three first-prize winners to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo: David Juntgen...
Read MoreIntroducing the pmp-check-mysql-status Nagios Plugin
Most of the Nagios plugins included with the Percona Monitoring Plugins are purpose-built for specific scenarios that I found in my research to be frequent, severe, or subtle causes of problems in MySQL systems....
Read MorePercona Server 5.5.21-25.1 released!
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 on March 30, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.21, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 is now the...
Read MorePercona XtraBackup 1.9.2 released (Beta)
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.9.2 on 28th March 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here. This is a late BETA release in the process of going towards...
Read MoreMySQL 5.6.4-m7 is made of pure win
I have an internal project that is generating a materialized view of some pretty important data, using 96 application server cores against a 12 core database with 192g of memory and a buttload of...
Read MoreHigh Availability Solutions for MySQL
Join us for our High Availability Solutions for MySQL seminar in Helsinki on Thursday May 10th 2012 to better understand how to achieve High Availability with MySQL. During this free Oracle seminar we will...
Read MoreHow MySQL Innodb works and how realestate.com.au configures their databases
I gave a lightning talk on MySQL Innodb and how realestate.com.au configures their databases to the DevOPS Melbourne meetup last night. My slides can be found here. Simply some take aways are Use Innodb...
Read MoreAgile software delivery and schema changes – how do you do it
I work for realestate.com.au and we’re an agile delivery shop. We’re trying to catch up to some of the best of the best web-shops like Etsy and so on through continuous delivery. Millions of...
Read MoreAt POSSCON and Looking for MySQL swag?
At #POSSCON and looking for MySQL SWAG? Find me in Lexington A at 10AM where I am presenting MySQL 5.6 and 20 MySQL Tips in 20 Minutes. Come and get ‘em — MySQL thumb...
Read MoreLooking for Global Collisions
On Monday, I took a break from planning for the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference (where we have a session, lightning talk, booth, and other misc activities planned) to go attend the UK-Massachusetts Innovation Economies Conference at the MIT...
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