by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 22, 2016 | MySQL
This blog discusses how TokuDB impacts InnoDB performance when the two run in the same environment. You would think MySQL storage engines are fairly independent of each other, even in the same environment. Enabling one, or changing its configuration, logically should...
by Dave Avery | Mar 22, 2016 | MongoDB
Join Jon Tobin, Percona’s Director of Solutions Engineering, as he presents “MongoDB Revs You Up: What Storage Engine is Right for You?” As you may or may not know, there is more than one MongoDB storage engine to choose from, now that MongoDB...
by Kortney Runyan | Mar 21, 2016 | MySQL
Hello, all! Just a quick blog to remind you all about the Percona Live 2016 Community Game Night! This awesome event is taking place on Wednesday, April 20 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, after the Community Networking Reception. It’s modeled after last year’s extremely...
by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 21, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog, we’ll discuss MicroSoft’s recent announcement that SQL Server will be available on Linux. If you’re going to Linux, why not move from SQL Server to MySQL? The open source operating system Linux powers nearly one-quarter of all the...
by Sveta Smirnova | Mar 18, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog, I will answer questions posed in my recent introduction to MySQL troubleshooting basic techniques webinar. Thank you for attending my March 10 MySQL troubleshooting webinar “Introduction to MySQL troubleshooting: basic techniques,” which is the second in...
by Alexey Zhebel | Mar 18, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.10-1.5 on March 18, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.10-1.5 is an enhanced, open source, fully...
by Muhammad Irfan | Mar 17, 2016 | MySQL
This is the second and last tutorial blog post on how to use pt-table-checksum / pt-table-sync tools for MySQL replication. In the first post, I showed you how to use the pt-table-checksum / pt-table-sync tools in a typical MySQL replication setup. In this post,...
by Alexey Stroganov | Mar 17, 2016 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we’ll be discussing Percona Server 5.7 performance improvements. Starting from the Percona Server 5.6 release, we’ve introduced several significant changes that help address performance problems for highly-concurrent I/O-bound workloads....
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 17, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.4 on March 17th, 2016. 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 Dave Avery | Mar 16, 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...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Mar 16, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog, we’ll discuss how to use “plugin: auth_socket” to change user password in MySQL 5.7. In Debian/Ubuntu it is pretty common to install MySQL/Percona Server with an empty password for the root user. After everything is configured and...
by Kortney Runyan | Mar 15, 2016 | Percona Live
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 is approaching quickly! If you haven’t registered yet, click here to pick up your tickets. There are several options: full registration, 101 Crash Courses, Keynote passes, etc. Register now! For the people already...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 15, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the GA release of Percona Server 5.7.11-4 on March 15, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.7.11, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.7.11-4...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 14, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog, we’ll discuss how Percona XtraDB Cluster handled a high latency network environment. Recently I was working in an environment where Percona XtraDB Cluster was running over a 10GB network, but one of the nodes was located in a distant location and...
by Alexey Zhebel | Mar 11, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.9-1.4 on March 11, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, fully...
by Sveta Smirnova | Mar 10, 2016 | MySQL
Thank you for attending my March 2 MySQL troubleshooting webinar “Introduction to troubleshooting: How to create test setup,” which is the first in the “MySQL Troubleshooting Webinar” series. The recording and slides for the webinar are...
by Dave Avery | Mar 10, 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...
by Kortney Runyan | Mar 9, 2016 | Percona Live
Whew! We’ve just about have all the i’s dotted and t’s crossed for the upcoming Percona Live Data Performance Conference in Santa Clara, April 18-21. We’re looking forward to seeing you there. We’re posting this blog to let you know what to expect at Percona...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 9, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
NOTE: This blog post contains some mistakes in data. While many of our conclusions are still valid, we’ve updated the evaluation in a new blog post. Please use that post in conjunction with this one. Vadim Tkachenko and I have been working with Fractal Tree®...
by Tibor Korocz | Mar 8, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This blog post discusses Orchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager. What is Orchestrator? Orchestrator is a replication topology manager for MySQL. It has many great features: The topology and status of the replication tree is automatically detected and...
