I have a pleasure to deliver Webinar on Industrial-Strength MySQL Applications Using Percona and Continuent together with Robert Hodges next week, Nov 28.

We will talk about how you can use technologies from Percona and Continuent to build Highly Performance and Highly Available Applications utilizing
MySQL Replication. I’ve been interesting in doing this Webinar for long time as we have a lot of great feedback from our customers using Continuent Tungsten and Percona software very successfully to implement advanced filtering, achieve much higher replication performance with parallel replication as well as make failover a lot more painless and easy to use. If you’re using MySQL Replication in highly demanding environment you would want to learn what these technologies have to offer.

Enjoy! …

Another Percona Live event is coming up, this time in London on the 3rd and 4th of December. I’m sure it is going to be as awesome as it was last year.

This year, I will talk about ‘Choosing Hardware For MySQL‘.

Of course, the most important hardware components will be covered: CPU, Memory, Network, Disk Subsystem and also the Cloud.
I will try to help attendees better understand how MySQL uses hardware (and how it does not), how it optimizes random IO operations on disk, what scalability means for MySQL, what it’s limitations are and so on…
Want more? Just attend!

 
You can register …

The Percona Toolkit team is happy to announce the release of Percona Toolkit version 2.1.6. This is the sixth stable release in the 2.1 series, and primarily a bug-fix release; We suggest that users upgrade to the latest version of the tools.

The complete list of changes is on the Launchpad milestone for 2.1.6, but here are some highlights the release:

• pt-online-schema-change can now handle column renames
• pt-online-schema-change’s DELETE trigger no longer fails when altering a primary key
• pt-stalk got a plugin hook interface
• pt-show-grant support for column-level grants
• pt-table-checksum will warn if slaves have a differing binlog_format

Remember that if you need help with Percona Toolkit, we provide flat-fee, unlimited support services with rapid 24×7 response on a …

I was honored to be asked to be a member of the committee for the “big” MySQL conference: Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 in Santa Clara, CA.  Personally, I’ve been attending this conference for 6 or 7 years and missing it only when my wife was pregnant with a due date in April (we have two children with April birthdays).

To me there was always a bit of mystery around conference talk selection committees, and this is the first public conference I’ve performed these duties for.  I’m not writing this post representing the entire committee, just as a member trying to let people in on what we get up to in general and where we’re at now.  Perhaps a few questions have crossed your mind:

Who is on the committee?

Our Chair is Shlomi Noach.  Also on the committee apart from myself is Roland Bouman, Ronald …

The Internet Summit seems to be the largest Tech event of the year in Raleigh,NC area. I’ve attended this conference last year and I’m proud to be a speaker this time around. If you’re up for early morning talks I’m part of “Tech Track: Inside the Data Center” block of sessions, starting at 8am, where I will talk about challenges of using MySQL in the data center.

I’ll be on the show for the full day tomorrow so feel free to drop me email if you’re attending if you’d like to catch up for business or pleasure.

On November 15th at 1PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific, I will be giving a webinar entitled “The Hazards of Multi-writing in a Dual-Master Setup“.  In my experience many people do not understand the difficulty of managing writes to RDBMS datastores in a high availability environment, especially where asynchronous replication is used (which is almost everywhere).

This talk gives an overview and concrete examples of how writing across dual-masters can and will break your assumptions about ACID compliance, how you can work around it, and some alternative solutions that are on the market today that attempt to address this problem.  This will be a great session for DBAs just getting into this problem space, are moving from hot-cold …

Percona Live, London 2012 continues streak of “not to be missed” events in London, following the footsteps of Royal Wedding, Diamond Jubilee and Summer Olympics. We have prepared great set of Tutorials and Sessions for these two day event. Here is my personal selection of the talks I’d love to attend, though I rarely have such chance

MariaDB – All the New Features by Sergei Golubchik is a great overview of MariaDB features. If you’re interested to …

“devops” seems to be everywhere now, or at least everyone is talking about it. But what does that really mean? And how does the DBA integrate the movement ?

During next week’s webinar, I will explain to you the big principles of the devops culture and illustrate how DBA’s can (must) be part of the movement. Then I will explain the best practices on how to deploy MySQL in a large scale environment using tools coming from the devops world like git, puppet, vagrant, jenkins…

Be prepared for Halloween, register for this free webinar, and join me on Wednesday!

I’m pleased to announce special bundled hotel/conference pass packages for the Percona Live London MySQL Conference which is December 3-4, 2012 at The Millennium Gloucester Conference Centre in London. The conference features tutorials December 3rd and breakout sessions December 4th. A networking reception will follow the Tuesday sessions.

Four special, money-saving bundles are available, whether you will attend the conference alone or will attend the conference with a colleague and share a hotel room. As a bonus, all of the conference hotel packages include a hot English breakfast and in-room Internet access!

– One conference only pass and one single occupancy hotel night for £425
– One conference plus tutorials pass and two single …

Call for Papers for the annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, are set to close at the end of the day tomorrow Oct. 12th. Please consider submitting one or more speaking proposals. If you are selected to speak you will receive a free full conference pass valued at over $1,500.

In addition, Super Saver Registration for this conference and Advanced Rate registration for our London conference end tomorrow as well. Sign up now before the price goes up!

Submit your papers and or register here: http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2013/

or here for London: http://www.percona.com/live/london-2012/