by Marco Tusa | Sep 13, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, ProxySQL
This blog post discusses ProxySQL and MHA integration, and how they work together. MHA (Master High Availability Manager and tools for MySQL) is almost fully integrated with the ProxySQL process. This means you can count on the MHA standard feature to manage failover,...
by Bob Davis | Sep 13, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), an open source software database monitoring and management tool. Completely open source and free to download and use, Percona Monitoring and Management provides point-in-time visibility and...
by Kenny Gryp | Sep 12, 2016 | MySQL, Security
In this blog post, I will discuss the CVE-2016-6662 vulnerability, how to tell if it affects you, and how to prevent the vulnerability from affecting you if you have an older version of MySQL. I’ll also list which MySQL versions include the vulnerability fixes....
by Dave Avery | Sep 12, 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 David Busby | Sep 12, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events
This blog is an announcement for a Percona Server update with regards to CVE-2016-6662. We have added a fix for CVE-2016-6662 in the following releases: Percona Server 5.5.51-38.1 Percona Server 5.5.51-38.2 Percona Server 5.6.32-78.0 Percona Server 5.6.32-78.1 Percona...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 9, 2016 | MySQL
This blog post discussed the advantages of SSDs over HDDs for database environments. For years now, I’ve been telling audiences for my MySQL Performance talk the following: if you are running an I/O-intensive database on spinning disks you’re doing it wrong. But there...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Sep 9, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the basic housekeeping steps for MySQL indexes. We all know that indexes can be the difference between a high-performance database and a bad/slow/painful query ride. It’s a critical part that needs deserves some...
by Sveta Smirnova | Sep 8, 2016 | MySQL, Webinars
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the MySQL Replication Troubleshooting webinar. First, I want to thank everybody for attending the August 25 webinar. Below is the list of your questions that I wasn’t able to answer during the webinar, with...
by Dave Avery | Sep 7, 2016 | MongoDB, 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 Roman Vynar | Sep 7, 2016 | MySQL, Security
This post will tell you how to get MySQL passwords in plain text using the .mylogin.cnf file. Since MySQL 5.6.6, it became possible to store MySQL credentials in an encrypted login path file named .mylogin.cnf, using the
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 6, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL
In this post, I’ll point you to MyRocks Docker images with binaries, allowing you to install and play with the software. During the @Scale conference, Facebook announced that MyRocks is mature enough that it has been installed on 5% of Facebook’s MySQL...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 6, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Live
This year, you will find a great deal about MongoDB at Percona Live Europe. As we continue to work on growing the independent MongoDB ecosystem, this year’s Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam includes many talks about MongoDB. If your company uses MongoDB technologies,...
by Sveta Smirnova | Sep 2, 2016 | MySQL, Webinars
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the InnoDB Troubleshooting webinar. First, I want to thank everybody for attending the August 11 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that I...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Sep 2, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
by Dave Avery | Sep 1, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to a new 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 Dave Avery | Aug 30, 2016 | MongoDB, Security, Webinars
Please join David Murphy as he presents a webinar Thursday, September 1 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) on MongoDB Security: A Practical Approach. (Date changed*) This webinar will discuss the many features and options available in the MongoDB community to help secure your...
by Marco Tusa | Aug 30, 2016 | MySQL
This article demonstrates how MySQL sharding with ProxySQL works. Recently a colleague of mine asked me to provide a simple example on how ProxySQL performs sharding. In response, I’m writing this short tutorial in the hope it will illustrate ProxySQL’s...
by Kortney Runyan | Aug 30, 2016 | MySQL
Get your Percona Live Europe discounted tickets now, and sign up for the community dinner. The countdown is on for the annual Percona Live Europe Open Source Database Conference! This year the conference will be taking place in the great city of Amsterdam October 3-5....
by Dave Avery | Aug 29, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to a new 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 Dave Avery | Aug 25, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to the first 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...
