by Stewart Smith | Aug 14, 2012 | Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.2 on August 13th, 2012. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the... by Stewart Smith | Jul 10, 2012 | Percona Software
I’m glad to announce the third Percona Playback release – another alpha release of a new software package designed to replay database server load. The first two versions were released in April, just in time for my talk at the Percona Live MySQL Conference... by Stewart Smith | Jul 1, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
When executing an ALTER TABLE, InnoDB (and XtraDB) will create two InnoDB transactions: One transaction is created when the table being ALTERed is locked by the server. This will show up as something like “TABLE LOCK table schema.table_name trx id XXXX lock mode... by Stewart Smith | Jun 28, 2012 | Percona Software
Due to a bug in upstream MySQL ( http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=65745 ), we’ve decided to delay the release of the next Percona Server release until it is resolved. We had originally expected to release Percona Server 5.5.25-27.0 today and instead... by Stewart Smith | Jun 24, 2012 | Percona Software
Where does software go while it’s waiting for release? The answer is: our experimental repository!For anywhere from a few days to a week before we release them, we stage our software releases in the TESTING download area and in separate software... by Stewart Smith | May 24, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 on May 24th, 2012 (Downloads are available from Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 downloads and from the Percona Software Repositories).Based on MySQL 5.1.63, including all the bug... by Stewart Smith | Apr 10, 2012 | Cloud
The Drizzle team has published the first Drizzle 7.1 stable release. The announcement on the Drizzle blog covers some of the major improvements in this release over the previous stable release, Drizzle 7.0. I plan to write a variety of blog posts on each of the... by Stewart Smith | Apr 4, 2012 | MySQL
I’m really excited to today announce the first GA (Generally Available; i.e. stable) release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We have worked hard since our last major release on improving the reliability and user experience of Percona XtraBackup as well as adding... by Stewart Smith | Apr 4, 2012 | MySQL
I am happy to also announce the latest minor release in the Percona XtraBackup 1.6 series. We recognise that not everybody will want or be able to make the leap to our new major release, Percona XtraBackup 2.0 and so we’re also releasing Percona XtraBackup... by Stewart Smith | Mar 29, 2012 | MySQL
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 Percona XtraBackup 2.0.0.This is a BETA quality... by Stewart Smith | Mar 29, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
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... by Stewart Smith | Feb 27, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the second beta release towards Percona XtraBackup 2.0! We call this version 1.9.1 as we are using the 1.9.x version numbers for betas of 2.0 to clearly differentiate beta releases from the final 2.0 release. We do not recommend using... by Stewart Smith | Feb 10, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 on February 10th, 2012 (Downloads are available from Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 downloads and from the Percona Software Repositories).Based on MySQL 5.1.61, including... by Stewart Smith | Feb 10, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5 on 10 February, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release... by Stewart Smith | Feb 8, 2012 | Cloud, Percona Events
Percona is proud to sponsor the 4th Drizzle Day, this year being held on the 13th April, the day after the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo.When: Friday, April 13th 2012 from 9:30 amWhere: Cypress room, Mezzanine Level, Hyatt Regency Santa Clara... by Stewart Smith | Feb 8, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1 on February 9th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).Based on MySQL 5.5.20, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona... by Stewart Smith | Feb 8, 2012 | Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce our first Beta release of what will become Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We’re releasing this beta to encourage testing of our upcoming 2.0 release of Percona XtraBackup.Since this is a beta release, you should not rely on it for production... by Stewart Smith | Jan 24, 2012 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers
I spent last week at linux.conf.au in Ballarat, Victoria (that’s the Victoria in Australia, not wherever else there may be one) which is only a pleasant two hour drive from my home town of Melbourne (Australia, not Florida). I sent an email internally to our... by Stewart Smith | Dec 22, 2011 | MySQL
Once upon a time, it would have been considered madness to even attempt to create 30,000 tables in InnoDB. That time is now a memory. We have customers with a lot more tables than a mere 30,000. There have historically been no tests for anything near this many tables... by Stewart Smith | Dec 22, 2011 | Percona Software
Very shortly after the XtraBackup 1.6.4 binaries hit the downloads site and repositories, it was found to have a bug where the master information was not properly stored, thus breaking point in time recovery and the ability to start a slave from a backup.This was...
