Hello everyone, and thank you to those that attended our webinar on Building an Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL setup using open source tools last Wednesday. You’ll find the recordings of such as well as the slides we have used during our presentation here.
We had over forty questions during the webinar but were only able to tackle […]
ProxySQL 1.4.11, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.
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. René Cannaò created […]
MongoDB, Inc. announced it has elected to change its license for MongoDB Community Server from AGPLv3 to a new license type they have created called a “Server Side Public License (SSPL)” citing the need to have a license better suited for the age of Software-as-a-Service.
First, it is important to state that MongoDB, Inc. is […]
You may be aware that the new major version of PostgreSQL has been released today. PostgreSQL 11 is going to be one of the most vibrant releases in recent times. It incorporates many features found in proprietary, industry-leading database systems, further qualifying PostgreSQL as a strong open source alternative.
Without further ado, let’s have a […]
Please join Percona’s Principal Consultant, Alex Rubin, as he presents MongoDB 4.0 Features – Transactions & More on Thursday, October 18th at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).
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Parallel replication has been around for a few years now but is still not that commonly used. I had a customer where the master had a very large write workload. The slave could not keep up so I recommended to use parallel slave threads. But how can I measure if it really helps and […]
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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 […]
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