by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 31, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.10 on March 31, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 30, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5 on March 30th 2015. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Based on Percona Server 5.5.41-37.0 including all the bug fixes in it, Galera Replicator 2.11,...
by Tom Diederich | Mar 27, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Here’s your chance to get on stage with Woz! Sort of. Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist Steve Wozniak will participate in a moderated Q&A on creativity and innovation April 14 during the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 27, 2015 | MySQL
TechCrunch reported yesterday that Apple has acquired FoundationDB. And while I didn’t see any mention if this news on the FoundationDB website, they do have an announcement saying: “We have made the decision to evolve our company mission and, as of today,...
by Tom Diederich | Mar 25, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Founded in 2004 to help people find great local businesses, Yelp has some 135 million monthly unique visitors. With those traffic volumes Yelp’s 300+ engineers are constantly working to keep things moving smoothly – and when you move that fast you learn many...
by Matt Griffin | Mar 24, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Services, Percona Software
Percona Toolkit is one of our most mature open source applications. Derived from Maatkit and Aspersa, Percona Toolkit has evolved significantly over the years. The software now contains 32 tools, over 4,000 tests, and has been downloaded over 250,000 times. Anyone who...
by Stephane Combaudon | Mar 19, 2015 | MongoDB, MySQL, Webinars
MongoDB 3.0 was recently released. Instead of focusing on what’s new – that is so easy to find, let’s rather talk about something that has not changed a lot since the early MongoDB days. This topic is sharding and most specifically: how to choose a...
by George O. Lorch III | Mar 18, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
So you want to contribute to OpenStack? I can help! For the last year or so I have been involved with OpenStack and more specifically the Trove (DBaaS) project as sort of an ambassador for Percona, contributing bits of knowledge, help and debugging wherever I could...
by Roel Van de Paar | Mar 17, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Services
MySQL QA Episode #1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun This episode consists of 13 parts, and an introduction. See videos below In HD quality (set your player to 720p!) Introduction Part 1: echo, ls, cp, rm, vi, cat, df, du, tee, cd, clear, uname,...
by Roel Van de Paar | Mar 17, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Services
Welcome to the MySQL QA Training Series! If you have not read our introductory blog post on pquery yet, I’d recommend reading that one first to get a bit of background. The community is enthuastic about pquery, and today I am happy to announce a full training...
by Muhammad Irfan | Mar 16, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Services
One of our Percona Support customers recently reported that Percona XtraBackup failed with a page corruption error on an InnoDB table. The customer thought it was a problem or bug in the Percona XtraBackup tool. After investigation we found that an InnoDB page was...
by Stephane Combaudon | Mar 13, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
My webinar “Multi-threaded Replication in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7” on February 25 generated several excellent questions following the presentation (available an online migration to GTIDs and that’s why here.
by Mike Benshoof | Mar 13, 2015 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
Geographic information systems (GIS) are used by application developers to incorporate geographic information into their datasets to create apps with cool features such finding the address to the best steakhouse in town or the locations of local points of historical...
by Daniel Nichter | Mar 12, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
The MySQL Performance Schema exposes so much data that it’s not trivial to learn, configure, and use. With recently released Percona Agent 1.0.11 you can get query metrics – like min, max, and average query execution time – with a few clicks: Click...
by Justin Swanhart | Mar 10, 2015 | MySQL
by Arunjith Aravindan | Mar 9, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
MySQL Replication is very simple to set up. In this post I’ll discuss its importance and five handy tools for monitoring and managing MySQL replication. What is MySQL Replication? It’s the process of copying the (real-time events) data from one master...
by Robert Barabas | Mar 6, 2015 | MySQL
Have you ever had a case where you needed to find a process which sent a HUP/KILL/TERM or other signal to your database? Let me rephrase. Did you ever have to find which process messed up your night? 😉 If so, you might want to read on. I’m going to tell you how...
by David Busby | Mar 5, 2015 | MySQL, Security
The CVE-2015-0204 FREAK SSL vulnerability abuses intentionally weak “EXPORT” ciphers which could be used to perform a transparent Man In The Middle attack. (We seem to be continually bombarded with not only SSL vulnerabilities but the need to name...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 5, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
I am thrilled to announce that Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist Steve Wozniak will participate in a moderated Q&A on creativity and innovation April 14 during this year’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California....
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 5, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on March 5th 2015. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories. Based on Percona Server 5.6.22-72.0 including all the bug fixes in it, Galera Replicator 3.9, and...
