Welcome to the weekly roundup and progress report. What’s new this week in Percona Server: As you might have seen, we released Percona Server 5.1.55-12.6. This release also updated our repositories for Debian Squeeze. We’re enhancing the PROCESSLIST to include columns for rows examined, sent, and read. This can be useful for understanding how much [...]

For all those in New York this is an upcoming MySQL presentation held in conjunction with our colleagues at General Assembly on March 22^nd 2011.

I’ll be speaking at IOUG’s Collaborate conference in Florida the week of April 10-14. My session is called MySQL Performance Basics. For those who know MySQL, this won’t be exciting, but if you’re new to it, I hope it will be a good orientation to what you should focus on and ignore.

Fragmentation can leave large holes in your table, blocks which must be read when scanning the table. Optimizing your table can make full table scans and range scans more efficient.