Percona is proud to be credited in several categories within the annual Database Trends & Application’s (DBTA) Readers’ Choice Awards. Voting is now open, and the categories cover long-standing technologies, as well as newer innovations.
Unlike other award programs that rely on the publications’ own evaluation, the DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards are chosen exclusively by you – […]
Following on the heels of our PostgreSQL Tuples Statistics Dashboard, here’s another blog post describing how you can gain additional visibility of PostgreSQL queries using PMM. We take a look at using an extension called pg_stat_statements. This allows us to collect information about the various queries running in your PostgreSQL instance. We’ll describe how […]
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Percona will no longer be offering the free services of Query Analyzer and MySQL Configuration Generator hosted at tools.percona.com. We made this decision based on observed low usage numbers, outdated technology, and lack of support for MySQL 5.7+, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Although there isn’t a like-for-like replacement available, you might wish to consider the following […]
Python 2 reaches EOL on 2020-01-01 and one of its commonly used third-party packages is MySQL-python. If you have not yet migrated away from both of these, since MySQL-python does not support Python 3, then you may have come across some issues if you are using more recent versions of MySQL and are enforcing […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.9-4 on April 17, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona website or the Percona software repositories.
Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 4.0 Community Edition. It supports MongoDB 4.0 protocols and drivers.
Percona Server for […]
PostgreSQL has a very unique way to review the code submitted by developers. Most open source software uses Github pull requests to accommodate users’ code. PostgreSQL has a Github page but doesn’t manage pull requests using Github. Many years ago, PostgreSQL introduced CommitFest to manage its patches, where postgres opens for a three to […]
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There’s just one week to go before the first of this year’s Percona University events in South America. We’re really pleased with the lineup for all three events. We’re also incredibly happy with the response that we have had from the community. While we realize that a free event is… well… free… you are […]
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Many of our regular attendees already know that the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference is not all about Percona software or, indeed, all about Percona. However, with moving to a new city—Austin, TX— we have realized that it’s something we ought to shout out loud and clear. Our conference really is technology agnostic! […]
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When you need to upgrade your PostgreSQL databases, there are a number of options available to you. In this post we’ll take a look at how you can upgrade PostgreSQL versions using pg_upgrade, a built-in tool that allows in-place upgrade of your software. Using pg_upgrade allows you, potentially, to minimize your downtime, an essential […]
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In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the MySQL 8.0 Architecture and Enhancement webinar.
First, I want to thank everybody for attending my April 9, 2019, webinar. The recording and slides are available
