Thanks to everyone who participated in Percona Live London 2013. We had a great event with nearly 20% higher attendance versus 2012. This year’s conference featured participation by representatives from Oracle including a compelling keynote by Tomas Ulin. The conference featured 10 tutorial sessions on Monday and 4 keynotes and 30 breakout sessions on Tuesday.

I personally found the keynotes highly interesting. Peter Zaitsev of Percona discussed the changing face …

8PM. One of the servers found a critical bug. Hop online and discuss, log bug. 10PM. Patch ready. 10:30PM. New build ready. 10:45PM. New RQG run initiated. This was by no means an uncommon sight during the months of testing that went into Percona Server 5.6, in fact it was commonplace.

At a certain point, we had 3 very high end servers (modern cpu’s, heaps of cores and memory), all equipped with either fast SSD’s or Fusion-io flash storage, executing thousands of trials, 8 in parallel per server, each executing 1 to 25 mysql threads per running mysqld instance.

And that was just the final months of testing. Before that much work was done on finding “every last bug out there”. We discovered many bugs in both upstream (Oracle’s MySQL 5.6) and in Percona Server 5.6. I personally logged around 100 bugs, but the total count would be much higher still.

My colleague …

Percona Server version 5.5.34-32.0

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.34-32.0 on October 28th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.34, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.34-32.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the …

Percona Server version 5.1.72-14.10

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.72-14.10 on October 28th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.72, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.72-14.10 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software …

Percona Server version 5.6.14-62.0

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.14-62.0 on October 24th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.14, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.14-62.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. …

The upcoming Percona Live London conference, November 11-12, features quite a number of talks about the latest MySQL features and related technologies. There will be a lots of talks about the new MySQL 5.6 features:

• Opening keynote highlights MySQL 5.6 new features.
• New InnoDB Compression talk will cover the new compression algorithm, implemented by Facebook and included in MySQL 5.6.
• New  …

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 another. Currently it can read queries from MySQL query-log and MySQL tcpdump files and run them on other MySQL server. With Percona Playback you can measure how a server or database upgrade, change in my.cnf or schema change can affect the overall performance of your MySQL database server.

Percona Playback for MySQL can also help evaluate new server versions, patches and hardware against …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.5 for MySQL. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios and Cacti, and are delivered in the form of templates, plugins, and scripts.

Changelog:

* Added mysql-ca option to ss_get_mysql_stats.php (bug 1213857)
* Added user info to the idle_blocker_duration check of pmp-check-mysql-innodb (bug 1215317)
* Extended pmp-check-mysql-processlist with more locking states (bug 1213859)
* ss_get_mysql_stats.php did not work with custom mysql port (bug 1213862)
* ss_get_mysql_stats.php silently failed when a query returns too many rows (bug 1225070)
* Wrong description of percona-cacti-templates deb package (bug 1217782)

A new tarball is available from …

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 (Monday 21st, 12:00pm)
  There is no one magic solution to having MySQL As A Service work well, it’s a lot of small moving parts and options that need to be set, monitored and configured. We may wish it was different, or look at other database technologies, but there is a lot of legacy code that talks to MySQL, with all it’s idiosyncrasies – and we need to be able to …

This is to announce that me and Daniel Nichter (Lead of Percona Toolkit) are coming to the MYSQL NOSQL & CLOUD CONFERENCE & EXPO in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Oct. 15-16.
There also will be local Percona experts in attendance.

Talks from Percona include:

• Percona XtraDB Cluster – Basic installation and setup by Martín Arrieta
• Proactive measures to minimize MySQL downtime by Fernando Ipar
• Percona Server 5.6 : New features and performance improvements by Vadim Tkachenko
• Systematic Approach to Performance by Marcos Albe

We also will present at The Montevideo MySQL Meetup group in Uruguay on Oct. 17.

So if you want to talk with Percona experts, chat with me and Daniel on Percona …