In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to run and use sysbench histograms. One of the features of sysbench that I often I see overlooked (and rarely used) is its ability to produce detailed query response time histograms in addition to computing percentile numbers. Looking at histograms together with throughput or latency over time […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 on September 20, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 is now the current release, based on the following: Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2 Galera Replication library 3.21 wsrep API version 26 All Percona software is open-source and […]
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Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post is with Dana Van Aken, […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL improves MySQL SSL connection performance. When deploying MySQL with SSL, the main concern is that the initial handshake causes significant overhead if you are not using connection pools (i.e., mysqlnd-mux with PHP, mysql.connector.pooling in Python, etc.). Closing and making new connections over and over can greatly impact […]
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Join Percona’s, Principal Support Engineer, Markus Albe as he presents A Percona Support Engineer Walkthrough for pt-stalk on Tuesday, September 19, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now As a support engineer, I get dozens of pt-stalk captures from our customers containing samples of iostat, vmstat, top, ps, SHOW ENGINE […]
Read MoreWelcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post is with Charity Majors, CEO/Cofounder […]
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In this blog post, we talk about the results of Percona’s time series database poll “What Database Engine Are You Using to Store Time Series Data?” Time series data is some of the most actionable data available when it comes to analyzing trends and making predictions. Simply put, time series data is data that is […]
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This post is the third of a series focusing on the MySQL high availability solutions available in 2017. The first post looked at the elders, the technologies that have been around for more than ten years. The second post talked about the adults, the more recent and mature technologies. In this post, we will look […]
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Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. What a long, packed week! Spent most of it at Open Source Summit North America, while still enjoying the myriad phone calls and meetings you have as a Perconian. In addition to two talks, I […]
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Hello again! On August 16, we delivered a webinar on MySQL backups. As always, we’ve had a number of interesting questions. Some of them we’ve answered on the webinar, but we’d like to share some of them here in writing. What is the best way to maintain daily full backups, but selective restores omitting certain […]
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