by Alexander Rubin | Apr 8, 2016 | MySQL
This blog post will discuss the issues and solutions for MySQL Data at Rest encryption. There is an update, too, by my colleague Ceri Williams – you can check it out here. Data at Rest Encryption is not only a good-to-have feature, but it is also a requirement...
by Dave Avery | Apr 8, 2016 | MySQL
And the first two Database Performance Team characters are . . . The last blog introduced the Database Performance Team. The Database Performance Team is comprised of our services experts, who work tirelessly every day to guarantee the performance of your database....
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 7, 2016 | MySQL
This blog will look at MySQL 5.7 sysbench OLTP read-only results to determine if they are faster than previous versions. As promised in my previous post, I have checked MySQL 5.7 performance against previous versions in a different workload. This time, I will use...
by Kortney Runyan | Apr 6, 2016 | Percona Live
Only 11 days until Percona Live! Are you registered? It’s getting close to the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016! The conference starts Monday, April 18th. We have some quick updates and pieces of information to pass on to you, so keep reading to find out...
by Frederic Descamps | Apr 6, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
This blog post will discuss what is necessary of the Percona Live Advanced Percona XtraDB Cluster tutorial. Percona Live 2016 is happening in April! If you are attending, and you are registered to the Percona XtraDB Cluster (Galera) tutorial presented by Kenny and...
by Sveta Smirnova | Apr 6, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This blog is an EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON wrap-up for the series of posts I’ve done in the last few months. In this series, we’ve discussed everything unique to EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON. I intentionally skipped a description of members such as table_name,...
by Dave Avery | Apr 5, 2016 | MySQL
Join us for our latest webinar on Thursday, April 7, at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) on Introduction to Troubleshooting Performance: What Affects Query Execution? MySQL installations experience a multitude of issues: server hangs, wrong data stored in the database, slow running...
by Dave Avery | Apr 5, 2016 | Percona Live
Welcome to the next Percona Live featured talk with Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference, as well as discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
by Dave Avery | Apr 4, 2016 | Percona Live
In this blog, we’ll discuss the Data in the Cloud track at Percona Live with Red Hat’s Brent Compton and Ross Turk. Welcome to another interview with the Percona Live Data Performance Conference speakers and presenters. This series of blog posts will highlight some of...
by Kortney Runyan | Apr 4, 2016 | MySQL
See Bill Nye the Science Guy at Percona Live Data Performance Conference, and help an excellent cause! The best science is built on solid data. As a world-renown icon in tech and geek circles everywhere, Bill Nye fights to raise awareness of the value of science,...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Apr 1, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.2 on April 1st, 2016. Downloads are available from our download site and from apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for...
by Alexander Rubin | Apr 1, 2016 | MySQL
by Dave Avery | Mar 31, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Live
We want MongoDB at Percona Live! One of the main goals of the Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is celebrating and embracing the open source community. The community’s spirit of innovation, expertise and competition has produced incredible software,...
by Nik Vyzas | Mar 30, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the basics regarding Docker MySQL replication. Docker has gained widespread popularity in recent years as a lightweight alternative to virtualization. It is ideal for building virtual development and testing environments....
by Dave Avery | Mar 30, 2016 | Percona Live
Welcome to the next Percona Live featured talk with Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference, as well as discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
by Frederic Descamps | Mar 29, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss read-write split routing in MaxScale. The two previous posts have shown how to setup high availability (HA) with Maxscale using asynchronous replication and how we monitor replication. Now let’s focus on the routing module...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 28, 2016 | MySQL
This blog examines MySQL 5.7’s primary key lookup results, and determines if MySQL 5.7 is really faster than its early versions. MySQL 5.7 was released some time ago, and now that the dust has settled it’s a good time to review its performance...
by David Murphy | Mar 24, 2016 | MongoDB
In this blog post, we’ll discuss how shorter field names impact performance and document size in MongoDB. The MongoDB Manual Developer Notes state: Shortening field names reduce expressiveness and does not provide considerable benefit for larger documents and...
by Dave Avery | Mar 24, 2016 | Percona Events, Percona Services, Percona Software
Admit it, you’ve always wanted to fight danger, win battles and save the day! Who doesn’t? Do you want to be a superhero? Percona can show you how! We don’t have any radioactive spiders or billionaire gadgets, but we do have our own team of superheroes dedicated to...
by Dave Avery | Mar 23, 2016 | Percona Live
Welcome to the next installment of our talks with Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference, as well as discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
