Percona builds with Percona patchsets
Percona has a strong team of MySQL developers and consultants on board, so we decided to prepare builds with our patches and third-party patches which we think are very useful. We actually use these...
View ArticlePercona RPMS for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64
We prepared RPMs of our release for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64 platform. https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql/RPM/RHEL5/5.0.62/There was question what patcheset includes and if there is manuals. We...
View ArticleNew patches, new builds
We made new patches, improved previous and want to announce new builds for 5.0.62, 5.0.67 and 5.1.26 versions. One of biggest changes we separated releases of 5.0 into two branches. First, just...
View ArticleHow Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
Our customers or prospective customers often ask us how we do a performance audit (it’s our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will both answer their question, so I can...
View ArticleHow Percona Develops Open-Source Software
Percona has been building and contributing to open-source software since the company was founded, and individually we’ve been doing the same thing for many years. We think it’s a huge value for our...
View ArticleHow (not) to find unused indexes
I’ve seen a few people link to an INFORMATION_SCHEMA query to be able to find any indexes that have low cardinality, in an effort to find out what indexes should be removed. This method is flawed –...
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Percona Server 5.1.47-rel11.0
Dear Community,Percona Server version 5.1.47-rel11.0 is available for download now.The changes in this release include:New featuresPercona Server is now based on MySQL 5.1.47, and XtraDB is now based...
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Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4
Percona Server version 5.1.53-12.4 is now available for download. It is now the current stable release version.Functionality Added or Changed Percona Server 5.1.53-12.4 is based on MySQL 5.1.53. New...
View ArticleAnnouncing Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL version 5.5.29-30.0 on February 26th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL...
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Tools and tips for analysis of MySQL’s Slow Query Log
MySQL has a nice feature, slow query log, which allows you to log all queries that exceed a predefined about of time to execute. Peter Zaitsev first wrote about this back in 2006 – there have been a...
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