We are pleased to announce the launch of Percona Open Source Advance (POSA). POSA is a consulting-led migration solution which assesses your existing proprietary database architecture and helps you migrate to the most suitable free open source software available.
Open source software migrations are increasingly mandated as strategic initiatives for companies but often require expert […]
We are glad to announce the 1.1.0 release of the Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster.
The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster automates the lifecycle and provides a consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster instance. The Operator can be used to create a Percona XtraDB Cluster, or scale an existing Cluster, and contains the […]
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference, Europe 2019 will have a one week extension of the call for papers. Our new close date will be Monday July 22, 2019. Any and all topics related to open source database technologies are invited.
This year’s conference takes a new approach, organizing tracks along these key business […]
Recently I had a customer where every single query was running in a transaction, as well as even the simplest selects. Unfortunately, this is not unique and many connectors like Java love to do that.
In their case, the Java connector changed autocommit=off for the connection itself at the beginning, and as these were permanent […]
Most any commercially mature DBMS provides the following five ways to secure the data you keep inside it:
Authentication of user connections (== Identity)
Authorization (== DB command permissions) (a.k.a. Role-based access control)
Network Encryption (a.k.a. Transport encryption)
Storage Encryption (a.k.a. Encryption-at-rest)
Auditing (MongoDB Enterprise or Percona Server for MongoDB only)
MongoDB is no exception. All of these have been […]
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Docker Security Considerations – PART I
Why Docker Security Matters
It is a fact that Docker has found widespread use during the past years, mostly because it is very easy to use as well as fast and easy to deploy when compared with a full-blown virtual machine. More and more servers are being operated as Docker […]
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.15 on July 10, 2019. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. […]
WAL retention is a very important topic for PostgreSQL database management. But very often we come across DBAs getting into surprise situations such as:
1. Several TBs of WALs piled up in archive destination
2. WALs filling up pg_wal/pg_xlog directory due to failing archive
3. Necessary WALs are no longer preserved
External backup projects for PostgreSQL are good […]
Please join Percona Consultant Doug Duncan as he presents his talk “Building Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB” on Wednesday, July 10th, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7).
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Doug will discuss the basic knowledge needed to understand the complications of running MongoDB inside of a containerized environment and then to go over the […]
During our work in support, we see this again and again: “I try to connect to MySQL and am getting a 1045 error”, and most times it comes accompanied with “…but I am sure my user and password are OK”. So we decided it was worth showing other reasons this error may occur.
MySQL 1045 […]
