Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Has a week passed already? Welcome back to the second column. A lot of time has been spent neck deep in getting speakers accepted and scheduled for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 […]
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In this first of its kind, Percona welcomes Dehowe Feng, Software Developer from Bitnine as a guest blogger. In his blog post, Dehowe discusses how viewing imported data from IMDb into a graph database (AgensGraph) lets you quickly see how data nodes relate to each other. This blog echoes a talk given by Bitnine at […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.1 on August 16, 2017. For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management. This hotfix release improves memory consumption. Changes in PMM Server We’ve introduced the following changes in PMM Server 1.2.1: Bug fixes PMM-1280: PMM server affected by nGinx CVE-2017-7529. An integer overflow exploit could result in a DOS (Denial of […]
Read MoreJoin Percona’s, Senior Technical Operations Architect Tim Vaillancourt as he presents “Efficient CRUD Queries in MongoDB” on Thursday, August 17, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Reserve Your Spot MongoDB has its own commands and function structures that ask the database to do work. In this talk, we will discuss how […]
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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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