In this blog, we’ll look at how improvements to Percona XtraDB Cluster improved IST performance. Introduction Starting in version 5.7.17-29.20 of Percona XtraDB Cluster significantly improved performance. Depending on the workload, the increase in throughput is in the range of 3-10x. (More details here). These optimization fixes also helped improve IST (Incremental State Transfer) performance. This […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how to deploy ProxySQL. ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL and its forks (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. It was created for DBAs by René Cannaò, as a means of solving […]
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In this post, we’ll use a blog poll to find out what operating system you use to run your development database servers. In our last blog poll, we looked at what OS you use for your production database. Now we would like to see what you use for your development database. As databases grow to meet […]
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In this blog post, I’ll talk about multi-threaded slave statistics printed in MySQL error log file. MySQL version 5.6 and later allows you to execute replicated events using parallel threads. This feature is called Multi-Threaded Slave (MTS), and to enable it you need to modify the slave_parallel_workers variable to a value greater than 1. Recently, a […]
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In this post, we’ll look at strategies for backups and disaster recovery. Note: I am giving a talk on Backups and Disaster Recovery Best Practices on July 27th. Register Now When discussing disaster recovery, it’s important to take your business’ continuity plan into consideration. Backup and recovery processes are a critical part of any application […]
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Join Percona’s, Technical Services Manager, Jervin Real as he presents Learning MySQL 5.7 on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now MySQL 5.7 has a lot of new features. If you’ve dabbled with an older version of MySQL, it is worth learning what new features exist and […]
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We are extending the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 call for papers deadline to Monday, July 24, 2017. Get your submissions in now! Between our Conference Committee working hard to review all the outstanding talk ideas, and the many community requests for more time, we didn’t want to shortchange any of our applicants. If […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.14-3.4 on July 17, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories.
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Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.0 on July 14, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. Changes in PMM Server PMM Server 1.2.0 introduced the following changes: Updated Components Consul 0.8.5 Grafana 4.3.2 Orchestrator 2.1.5 Prometheus 1.7.1 New Features PMM-737: New graphs in System Overview dashboard: Memory Advanced Details Saturation Metrics PMM-1090: Added ESXi support […]
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In this blog post, I’ll look at a trick we use at Percona when upgrading to MySQL 5.7. I’ll be covering this subject (and others) in my webinar Learning MySQL 5.7 on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. We’ve been doing upgrades for quite a while here are Percona, and we try to optimize, standardize and improve this process […]
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