by Dave Avery | Feb 21, 2016 | MySQL
Grafana is the leading graph and dashboard builder for visualizing time series, which is a great tool for visual monitoring of MySQL databases. Come learn how to use Grafana for MySQL monitoring. In this webinar, Torkel Odegaard, Grafana Founder and Creator, will...
by Jon Tobin | Feb 19, 2016 | MongoDB
Recently I was talking with Tim Sharp, one of my colleagues from our Technical Account Manager team about MongoDB’s scalability. While doing some quick training with some of the Percona team, Tim brought something to my attention: he mentioned to me that several...
by Dave Avery | Feb 18, 2016 | MongoDB
In a recent article over at The Inquirer, Microsoft got roundly savaged for a database security leak. Apparently their third-party database operator didn’t correctly secure the backdoor to their “careers” database, leaving it open for anybody to ransack for...
by Dave Avery | Feb 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 talks that will happen at this year’s conference, as well as discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
by Manjot Singh | Feb 15, 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 This blog will address how the MariaDB Auditing Plugin can help monitor database activity to help...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 11, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
This will be another post on using Percona Server via a Docker image. I want to follow up on my previous post regarding CPU/Network overhead in Docker “Measuring Percona Server Docker CPU/network overhead” by measuring if there is any docker IO overhead...
by Dave Avery | Feb 10, 2016 | Percona Live
Welcome to the first of several discussions with some of our upcoming Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016 speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the talks that will happen at this year’s conference, as well as discuss the...
by Stephane Combaudon | Feb 10, 2016 | MySQL
Unlike MySQL 5.6, where parallel replication can only be used when replicas have several schemas, MySQL 5.7 replicas can read binlog group commit information coming from the master to replicate transactions in parallel even when a single schema is used. Now the...
by Sveta Smirnova | Feb 9, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 8, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the second release candidate of Percona Server 5.7.10-2 on February 8, 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...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 8, 2016 | MySQL
Percona is glad to announce the first release candidate of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.0-rc1 on February 8th 2016. Downloads are available from our download site and from apt and yum repositories. This is a Release Candidate quality release and it is not intended for...
by Dave Avery | Feb 8, 2016 | MySQL
Join us Tuesday, February 16, 2016 9:00am PST (UTC-8) for a webinar on the operational and monitoring features of MySQL 5.7 with Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev. MySQL 5.7 is a great release, providing valuable features for both daily operations and ongoing development. In...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 5, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Now that we have our Percona Server Docker images, I wanted to measure the performance overhead when we run the database in the container. Since Docker promises to use a lightweight container, in theory there should be very light overhead. We need to verify that...
by Pablo Padua | Feb 4, 2016 | Security
password_expired feature which allows to set a user’s password as expired. This has been added to the mysql.user table and its default value it’s “N.” You can change it to “Y” using the ALTER USER statement. Here’s an quick example on how...
by Alexander Rubin | Feb 3, 2016 | MySQL
MySQL 5.7 has been released, and there are some exciting new features now available that I’m going to discuss in this blog — specifically around geographic information system (GIS). I’ve used GIS features in MySQL for a long time. In my previous blog...
by Kortney Runyan | Feb 2, 2016 | Percona Live
Percona Live Crash Courses for MySQL and MongoDB The database community constantly tells us how hard it is to find someone with MySQL and MongoDB DBA skills who can help with the day-to-day management of their databases. This is especially difficult when companies...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 2, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Docker is incredibly popular tool for deploying software, so we decided to provide a Percona Docker image for both Percona Server MySQL and Percona Server for MongoDB. We want to create an easy way to try our products. There are actually some images available from...
by Fernando Ipar | Feb 1, 2016 | Benchmarks
In a recent post, Vadim compared the performance of Amazon Aurora and Percona Server on AWS. This time, I am comparing write throughput for InnoDB and TokuDB, using the same workload (sysbench oltp/update/update_non_index) and a similar set-up (r3.xlarge instance,...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jan 29, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
by Alexey Zhebel | Jan 29, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on January 29, 2016. Binaries are available from the downloads area or from our software repositories. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.28-25.14 is now the current release, based on the following:...
