by Frederic Descamps | Mar 7, 2016 | MySQL
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 7, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.17. Released March 7, 2016. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 7, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.29-76.2 on March 7, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.29, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server...
by David Busby | Mar 4, 2016 | MySQL
This blog post will discuss how to Mitigate DROWN CVE-2016-0800. Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ll have heard (or likely to hear about soon) the drown attack. From the Red Hat site: “A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets...
by Stephane Combaudon | Mar 4, 2016 | MariaDB, MySQL
MariaDB no longer meeting your needs? Migrate to Percona software for MySQL – an open source,production-ready, and enterprise-grade MySQL alternative. Learn More In this blog post, we’ll compare virtual columns in MySQL and MariaDB. Virtual columns are one...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 4, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.48-37.8 on March 4, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.48, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.48-37.8 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server is open-source and free....
by Kortney Runyan | Mar 3, 2016 | Percona Live
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 in Santa Clara, California is just around the corner: April 18-21. We’re busy getting things ready to make sure everybody gets the most out of their time there. As part of that, we have some news and a couple of...
by Dave Avery | Mar 2, 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 Frederic Descamps | Mar 2, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this post, we’ll address how MaxScale monitors servers. We saw in the We saw in the previous post how we could deal with high availability (HA) and read-write split using MaxScale. If you remember from the previous post, we used this section to monitor...
by Sveta Smirnova | Feb 29, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Once again it’s time for another EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON is cool! post. This post will discuss how EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON allows the nested_loop command to make the JOIN operation hierarchy transparent. The regular EXPLAIN command lists each table that participates in...
by Roman Vynar | Feb 29, 2016 | Monitoring, MySQL
This post explains how you can quickly start using such trending tools as Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and graphing of MySQL and system performance. Update, February 20, 2017: Since this blog post was published, we have released Percona Monitoring and...
by Fernando Ipar | Feb 26, 2016 | MongoDB
In this blog post, we’ll discuss how using Prometheus can help with monitoring MongoDB response time. I am currently comparing the performance of different storage engines on Percona Server for MongoDB, using a slightly customized version of Tim...
by David Murphy | Feb 25, 2016 | MongoDB
by Frederic Descamps | Feb 25, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL
In this post, the first one of a Maxscale series, I describe how to use MariaDB’s MaxScale and MySQL-utilities with MySQL Asynchronous replication. When we talk about high availability with asynchronous replication, we always think about MHA or PRM. But if we...
by Dave Avery | Feb 24, 2016 | MongoDB
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 Alexey Zhebel | Feb 24, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.8-1.3 on February 24, 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 Frederic Descamps | Feb 23, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll determine a MySQL connection using SSL… or not. Since MySQL 5.7.5 the server generates SSL certificates (see auto_generate_certs) by default if compiled with SSL, or uses mysql_ssl_rsa_setup if compiled with YaSSL. But how can we...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 23, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the first GA release of Percona Server 5.7.10-3 on February 23, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.7.10, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 23, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the first GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.1 on February 23rd 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...
by Sveta Smirnova | Feb 22, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
