Join Percona’s, Technical Services Manager, Jervin Real as he presents Lock, Stock and Backup: Data Guaranteed on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Reserve Your Spot Backups are crucial in a world where data is digital and uptime is revenue. Environments are no longer bound to traditional data […]
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In this post I’ll answer questions I received in my Wednesday, July 19, 2017, webinar Learning MySQL 5.7! First, thank you all who attended the webinar. The link to the slides and the webinar recording can be found here. I received a number of interesting questions in the webinar that I’ve followed up with below. […]
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Welcome to a new weekly column on the Percona blog. My name is Colin Charles, Percona Chief Evangelist, and I have been involved in MySQL, MariaDB Server and the open source community for over a decade. Now I am at Percona, and this is my weekly column. When you start a column, you have ask […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at some tips on how to configure Aurora RDS parameters. I was recently deploying a few Aurora RDS instances, a process very similar to configuring a regular RDS instance. I noticed a few minor differences in the way you configure Aurora RDS parameters, and very few articles on how […]
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This blog discusses newly added options for Percona XtraBackup 2.4.8 and how they can impact your database backups. To avoid issues with MySQL 5.7 skipping the redo log for DDL, Percona XtraBackup has implemented three new options ( xtrabackup --lock-ddl, xtrabackup --lock-ddl-timeout, xtrabackup --lock-ddl-per-table) that can be used to place MDL locks on tables while they are copied. So […]
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Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Security: Making Things Secure by Default on Wednesday, August 9, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now MongoDB security breaches have regularly been in the news. What isn’t mentioned, however, is that it’s all been avoidable. Simple mistakes […]
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One of the new graphs added to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is saturation metrics. This blog post explains how to use the information provided by these graphs. You might have heard about Brendan Gregg’s USE Method (Utilization-Saturation-Errors) as a way to analyze the performance of any system. Our goal in PMM is to support […]
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We are excited to announce that the sneak peek schedule for the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 is up! The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 is September 25 – 27, at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel. The theme of Percona Live Europe 2017 is Championing Open Source Databases, with sessions on MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.4 on August 2, 2017. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL and MongoDB server and system tasks too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source. You download Percona Toolkit packages from the […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.6-1.7 on August 2, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, fully compatible, highly-scalable, zero-maintenance downtime database supporting the MongoDB v3.4 protocol and drivers. It extends MongoDB with Percona Memory Engine and MongoRocks storage engine, as well as several enterprise-grade features: External […]
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