The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazon’s high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With this new functionality AWS Import/Export now supports importing data directly into Amazon EBS snapshots. Once loaded into [...] [...more]
Just a couple of announcements for Percona Live: we’re giving away free tickets through Engine Yard, and we’ve arranged our evening open-bar event. For a chance to win a free ticket, check out the guest blog post I wrote for Engine Yard on how to make Rails migrations faster and safer. In other news, Percona [...] [...more]
We just pushed to sysbench support for workload against multiple tables ( traditionally it used only single table). It is available from launchpad source tree lp:sysbench . This is set of LUA scripts for sysbench 0.5 ( it supports scripting), and it works following way: - you should use --test=tests/db/oltp.lua to run OLTP test i.e. [...] [...more]
Just pushed up Drizzle JDBC 1.1 with 2 quite big new features: SSL support – add ?useSSL=true in the connection string (and do the usual ssl-in-java magic to make it work. Check the MySQL documentation for more information, it is set up exactly the same way here) Multi queries – add ?allowMultiQueries=true to your connection string [...] [...more]
As you might have heard, at the MySQL Conference this earlier this week we announced our launch of Drizzle support services. We added Drizzle to the list of database servers that is covered under our MySQL support contracts. This includes MySQL, Percona Server, Amazon RDS, MariaDB, and the XtraBackup and Maatkit tools. We’ve been advocates [...] [...more]
