by Kortney Runyan | Sep 22, 2016 | MySQL
The Call for Speakers for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is open and accepting proposals through Oct. 31, 2016. The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is the premier event for the diverse and active open source community, as well as...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 21, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on September 21, 2016. Binaries are available from the downloads area or our software repositories. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.30-25.16.3 is now the current release, based on the following: Percona...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 21, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server 5.7.14-8 on September 21, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.7.14, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.7.14-8 is the...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 21, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.6.32-78.1 on September 21st, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.32, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.32-78.1 is the...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 21, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.5.51-38.2 on September 21, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.51, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.51-38.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server is open-source and free. You can...
by Roel Van de Paar | Sep 21, 2016 | MySQL
This blog post highlights a video on how to use regular expressions. It’s been a while since I did the MySQL QA and Bash Training Series. The 13 episodes were quite enjoyable to make, and a lot of people watched the video’s and provided great feedback. In...
by Dave Avery | Sep 21, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL
Join Percona’s Sr. Technical Operations Architect, Tim Vaillancourt on Thursday, September 22, at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) for the webinar Black Friday and Cyber Monday: How to Avoid an E-Commerce Disaster. This webinar will provide some best practices to ensure the...
by David Murphy | Sep 20, 2016 | MongoDB
In this blog post, we’ll look at MongoDB point-in-time backups, and work with them. Mongodump Mongodump is the base logical backup tool included with MongoDB. It takes a full BSON copy of database/collections, and optionally includes a log of changes during the...
by Dave Avery | Sep 20, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to another Percona Live Europe featured talk with Percona Live Europe 2016: Amsterdam speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference. We’ll also discuss the technologies and outlooks of the...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 19, 2016 | Percona Live
In this blog post, I’ll review some of the open source database technologies discussions at Percona Live Europe. I’ve already written about the exciting PostgreSQL and MongoDB content at Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam, and now I’m going to highlight some of...
by Alexey Zhebel | Sep 19, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.9-2.1 on September 19, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.9-2.1 is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible,...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Sep 16, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at what MySQL does under the hood to transform NoSQL requests to SQL (and then store them in InnoDB transactional engine) when using the X Plugin. X Plugin allows MySQL to function as a document store. We don’t need to define...
by Nik Vyzas | Sep 16, 2016 | MySQL
When it comes to “decision time” about which type of MySQL HA (high-availability) solution to implement, and how to architect the solution, many questions come to mind. The most important questions are: “What are the best tools to provide HA and Load...
by Marco Tusa | Sep 15, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
In this post, we’ll discuss how an integrated ProxySQL and Percona XtraDB Cluster (Galera) helps manage node states and failovers. ProxySQL is designed to not perform any specialized operation in relation to the servers with which it communicates. Instead, it...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Sep 15, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, Security
Percona announces the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on September 15, 2016. Binaries are available from the downloads area or our software repositories. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.30-25.16.2 is now the current release, based on the following: Percona...
by Bradley Mickel | Sep 14, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the MySQL default configuration changes between 5.6 and 5.7. MySQL 5.7 has added a variety of new features that might excite you. However, there are also changes in the current variables that you might have overlooked. MySQL 5.7...
by Muhammad Irfan | Sep 14, 2016 | MySQL
Recently, I worked on a customer case where the customer needed to monitor the checksum via Nagios monitoring. The pmp-check-pt-table-checksum plugin from Percona Monitoring Plugins for MySQL achieves this goal. I thought it was worth a blogpost....
by Dave Avery | Sep 14, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Please join Roman Vynar, Lead Platform Engineer on Thursday, September 15, 2016 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) for a webinar on Identifying and Solving Database Performance Issues with PMM. Database performance is the key to high-performance applications. Gaining visibility...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Sep 14, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, Webinars
This blog post discusses how you can protect your e-commerce database from a high traffic disaster. Databases power today’s e-commerce. Whether it’s listing items on your site, contacting your distributor for inventory, tracking shipments, payments, or customer data,...
by Alexander Rubin | Sep 13, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
