by Aurimas Mikalauskas | Nov 14, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This blog post was inspired by my visit at the annual Zabbix Conference in Riga, Latvia this year, where I gave a couple of talks on MySQL and beyond. It was a two-day single-track event with some 200 participants, a number of interesting talks on Zabbix (and related...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 13, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The 2014 edition of Percona Live London brought together attendees from 30 countries to hear insightful talks from leaders in the MySQL community. The conference kicked off on Monday with a full day of tutorials followed by the very popular Community Dinner featuring...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Nov 12, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Did your logging stop working after you set up logrotate? Then this post might be for you. Some time ago, Peter Boros wrote about Rotating MySQL Slow Logs safely, explaining the steps of a “best practice” log rotate/archive. This post will add more info...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live MySQL Conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-16, 2015) features a full day of tutorial sessions and three full days with keynote talks and breakout sessions from leading MySQL experts from around the world. Birds of a Feather sessions, two networking...
by Terry Erisman | Nov 11, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The OpenStack Live conference in Silicon Valley (April 13-14, 2015) will emphasize the essential elements of making OpenStack perform better with emphasis on the critical role of MySQL and Trove. If you use OpenStack and have a story to share or a skill to teach, we...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 10, 2014 | MongoDB, MySQL
I visited MongoDB Day in London on November 6. Here are a few observations: App-Developer Centric. It is interesting to see how much MongoDB is about developers; the ops side is something which is a necessary evil developers have to deal with. The ops topics covered...
by Matt Griffin | Nov 10, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
November is a busy month of events for Percona. Conferences in Moscow, London, Paris, Las Vegas, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo mean our experts are racking up the frequent flyer miles meeting users of Percona software from around the world, sharing our insights on...
by Jay Janssen | Nov 6, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
MySQL is the most popular and widely used open source database on the planet. OpenStack is fast evolving as the defacto open source cloud platform. OpenStack services such as Nova (Compute), Cinder (Storage), Neutron (Networking), to name just a few, all use MySQL as...
by Stephane Combaudon | Nov 4, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Toolkit’s pt-table-checksum is a great tool to find data inconsistencies between a MySQL master and its replicas. However it is sometimes not enough to know that there are inconsistencies and let pt-table-sync fix the issue: you may want to know which...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 3, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.6 on November 3, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7 users can download,...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 3, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.21-70.0 on October 30, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7 users can download,...
by Tushar Katarki | Nov 1, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
MySQL database usage is popular in OpenStack. Core OpenStack services for Compute (Nova), Storage (Cinder), Neutron (Networking), Image (Glance) and Identity (Keystone) all use MySQL database. MySQL – as the world’s most popular database, runs inside OpenStack...
by Liz van Dijk | Oct 31, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Software
If you’re following this blog, it’s quite likely you’re already aware of the Percona Live London 2014 conference coming up in just a few days. Just in case, though (you know, if you’re still looking for an excuse to sign up), I wanted to put a...
by Tom Diederich | Oct 30, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
With 1.28 billion active users, Facebook MySQL database engineers are active and extremely valuable contributors to the global MySQL community. So naturally they are also active participants of Percona Live MySQL conferences! And next week’s Percona Live London 2014...
by Peter Boros | Oct 29, 2014 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
I will present a benchmarking talk next week (Nov. 4) at the OpenStack Paris Summit with Jay Pipes from Mirantis. In order to be able to talk about benchmarking, we had to be able to set up and tear down OpenStack environments really quickly. For the benchmarks, we...
by Peiran Song | Oct 28, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
A deadlock in MySQL happens when two or more transactions mutually hold and request for locks, creating a cycle of dependencies. In a transaction system, deadlocks are a fact of life and not completely avoidable. InnoDB automatically detects transaction deadlocks,...
by Frederic Descamps | Oct 27, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events
You can already feel the cold of February coming slowly… you can also smell waffles, fries and see a large amount of beards walking around with laptops… you are right, FOSDEM is coming! And as every year, the MySQL Community will also be present! For the...
by Bill Karwin | Oct 23, 2014 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Webinars
Yesterday (Oct. 22) I gave a presentation titled “MySQL 5.6 Full Text Search Throwdown.” If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great questions. I...
by Tom Diederich | Oct 22, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Live
The countdown is on for Europe’s largest annual MySQL event, Percona Live London 2014. The two days of technical tutorials and sessions, November 3-4, will focus on the latest MySQL industry trends, news, best practices – and a look at what’s on the...
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Oct 21, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
I reckon there’s little sense in running 2 or more Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) nodes in a single physical server other than for educational and testing purposes – but doing so is still useful in those cases. The most popular way of achieving this seems to...
