An understanding of PostgreSQL locking is important to build scalable applications and avoid downtime. Modern computers and servers have many CPU cores and it’s possible to execute multiple queries in parallel. Databases containing many consistent structures with changes made by queries or background processes running in parallel could crash a database or even corrupt […]
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pt-query-digest is one of the most commonly used tool when it comes to query auditing in MySQL®. By default, pt-query-digest reports the top ten queries consuming the most amount of time inside MySQL. A query that takes more time than the set threshold for completion is considered slow but it’s not always true that tuning […]
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Authorisations and encryption/decryption within a database system establish the basic guidelines in protecting your database by guarding against malicious structural or data changes.
What are authorisations?
Authorisations are the access privileges that mainly control what a user can and cannot do on the database server for one or more databases. So consider this to be like […]
With the exception of the three configuration variables described here, ProxySQL will only parse the configuration files the first time it is started, or if the proxysql.db file is missing for some other reason.
If we want to change any of this data we need to do so via ProxySQL’s admin interface and then save them […]
After much speculation following the announcement in Santa Clara earlier this year, we are delighted to announce Percona Live 2019 will be taking place in Austin, Texas.
Save the dates in your diary for May, 28-30 2019!
The conference will take place just after Memorial Day at The Hyatt Regency, Austin on the shores of Lady Bird […]
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL® and MongoDB® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL® and MongoDB® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.
This release offers two new features for both the MySQL Community and Percona Customers:
MySQL […]
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Probably not well known but quite an important optimization was introduced in MySQL 5.6 – reduced overhead for “read only transactions”. While usually by a “transaction” we mean a query or a group of queries that change data, with transaction engines like InnoDB, every data read or write operation is a transaction.
Now, as a […]
The MongoDB® replica set is a group of nodes with one set as the primary node, and all other nodes set as secondary nodes. Only the primary node accepts “write” operations, while other nodes can only serve “read” operations according to the read preferences defined. In this blog post, we’ll focus on some MongoDB replica set scenarios, […]
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This is the last post in our series on building an enterprise-grade PostgreSQL set up using open source tools, and we’ll be covering monitoring.
The previous posts in this series discussed aspects such as security, backup strategy, high availability, connection pooling and load balancing, extensions, and detailed logging in PostgreSQL. Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10 at 10AM EST, […]
Please join Percona’s Product Manager for Percona Server for MongoDB, Jeff Sandstrom; Sr. Tech Ops Architect for MongoDB, Tim Vaillancourt; and Mesosphere’s Senior Director of Community and Evangelism, Matt Jarvis, on Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC–7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC–4), as they demonstrate how to build highly scalable Internet […]
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