by Stewart Smith | Jan 22, 2014 | MySQL
Early this month I spoke at linux.conf.au in Perth, Australia, where I presented “Past, Present and Future of MySQL and variants.”Here’s my presentation in its entirety. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. (linux.conf.au is... by Stewart Smith | Oct 22, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Playback 0.7 for MySQL on October 22nd, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site and Percona Software Repositories.Percona Playback for MySQL is a tool for replaying the load of one database server to... by Stewart Smith | Oct 14, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
A week ago we launched our first GA release of Percona Server 5.6 and it’s a real game-changer for us. The release of Percona Server 5.6 (our enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL) not only provides stability and performance but also provides key features only... by Stewart Smith | Oct 10, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC 2013) in Auckland, New Zealand! It’s on October 21st-23rd and you should go here right now and register. I’m giving two talks at OSDC this year: MySQL in the cloud, As A Service... by Stewart Smith | Sep 27, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
I recently blogged on setting up Experimental Git mirror of Oracle MySQL trees up on GitHub. I’m now happy to announce that there are also mirrors for: Percona Server Percona XtraBackup Percona PlaybackI’ve also updated the Oracle MySQL GIT mirror to... by Stewart Smith | Sep 26, 2013 | MySQL
I’ve been working on setting up mirrors on github of all our BZR branches. My first efforts that are at a suitable stage to share are mirrors of the Oracle MySQL trees. This is currently a snapshot of MySQL 5.1, 5.5 and 5.6 with all the tags preserved.... by Stewart Smith | Aug 7, 2013 | MySQL, Webinars
Good news everyone! I recently presented a webinar: Percona Server 5.6: Enterprise Grade MySQL. It was also recorded so you can watch along or view the slide deck. As with all my talks, I am not simply reading the slides so it really is worth to listen to the audio... by Stewart Smith | Jul 30, 2013 | Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, Webinars
The new Percona Server 5.6 is the most manageable, highest performance, and most scalable version of MySQL available. Percona Server 5.6 is the best open source MySQL choice for enterprise-grade applications because it combines new features with the best features of... by Stewart Smith | Jul 24, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
It was once said that “real artists ship.” In looking over the history of Percona software releases, we are currently shipping more software than ever before.First, let’s look at Percona Server. Let’s look at all major versions: 5.1, 5.5 and... by Stewart Smith | Jul 16, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Run Ubuntu and want to try new features of Percona XtraBackup? Well, now you can. We have a Personal Package Archive (PPA) percona-daily/percona-xtrabackup. Every time code is pushed to our main source code repository, the PPA is updated.We are currently building for... by Stewart Smith | Apr 10, 2013 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
We just released our first alpha of Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL and with it we included the ability to encrypt backups on the fly (full documentation here). This feature is different than simply piping the backup stream through the openssl or gpg binaries, which... by Stewart Smith | Apr 8, 2013 | MySQL
This post was initially going to be two sets of polls: “What is the maximum number of columns in MySQL?” and “What is the minimum maximum number of columns in MySQL?”. Before you read on, ponder those questions and come up with your own... by Stewart Smith | Jan 13, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
In preparing Percona Server 5.5.29 (not yet released, but soon), I filed MySQL bug 68045 (is marked private as it’s a security bug). This bug is in relation to the Oracle fix for CVE-2012-4414 and a problem I found with it. The MariaDB fix (which we... by Stewart Smith | Jan 2, 2013 | MySQL
Here at Percona we’ve spent a lot of time improving our development and testing practices. Why? Because constant innovation keeps us ahead and more productive. We want to work smarter, not harder. One of the tools we use is the Jenkins Continuous Integration... by Stewart Smith | Dec 6, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Recently there have been discussions on several vulnerabilities in MySQL and closely related projects such as MariaDB and Percona Server. Usually we have inherited security fixes from MySQL when we have updated Percona Server to be based off a new Oracle MySQL... by Stewart Smith | Sep 20, 2012 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
Yesterday, over at my personal blog, I blogged about the impact of the MySQL slow query log. Since we’re working on Percona Server 5.6, I did wonder if this was a good opportunity to re-examine how we could provide slow query log type functionality to our... by Stewart Smith | Sep 13, 2012 | Percona Software
We are glad to announce the availability of Percona Playback 0.4, the first release where we’ve released binary packages alongside our source release.Binary packages for RHEL/CentOS 6 are available with Debian/Ubuntu packages soon to come (we are ensuring our... by Stewart Smith | Sep 13, 2012 | Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the ALPHA release of Percona Server 5.6.6-60.1 on September 14, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the EXPERIMENTAL Percona Software Repositories, although currently only for RHEL/CentOS as we are working... by Stewart Smith | Aug 16, 2012 | MySQL
I just posted this to the MySQL Internals mailing list: Hi all,Like many of you, I’m disappointed that the bzr trees for MySQL are out of sync with the tarball source and binary releases from Oracle.Since Oracle has been silent on this, and this is a recurring... by Stewart Smith | Aug 14, 2012 | Percona Software
We are very happy to announce our first alpha of Percona Server 5.6. Based on MySQL 5.6.5 and all the improvements contained within, this is the first step towards a full Percona Server 5.6 release.Binaries are available to download from our downloads site...
