by Emily Ikuta | Jul 3, 2017 | MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s Senior Architect, Matthew Boehm, as he presents Indexes – What You Need to Know to Get the Most Out of Them on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Proper indexing is key to database performance. Find out how MySQL...
by Brigit Valencia | Jun 30, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona’s focus on customer success pushes us to deliver the very best products, services and support. Three recent industry awards reflect our continued success in achieving these goals. We recently garnered a Bronze Stevie Award “Company of the Year – Computer...
by Barrett Chambers | Jun 29, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
In this blog post, I’ll discuss my experience as a Solutions Engineer in explaining the value of Percona software and services to customers. The inspiration for this blog post was a recent conversation with a prospective client. They were exploring open source...
by Manjot Singh | Jun 28, 2017 | MySQL, Security
Welcome to Part 2 in a series of blog posts on MySQL encryption at rest. This post covers InnoDB tablespace encryption. At Percona, we work with a number of clients that require strong security measures for PCI, HIPAA and PHI compliance, where data managed by MySQL...
by Tibor Korocz | Jun 27, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Security
This blog post looks at SSL connections and how they work in MySQL 5.7. Recently I was working on an SSL implementation with MySQL 5.7, and I made some interesting discoveries. I realized I could connect to the MySQL server without specifying the SSL keys on the...
by Emily Ikuta | Jun 27, 2017 | MySQL
Join Percona’s Principal Technical Services Engineer, Marcos Albe as he presents Choosing a MySQL High Availability Solution on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now The MySQL world is full of tradeoffs, and choosing a high...
by Emily Ikuta | Jun 26, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents MariaDB Server 10.2: The Complete Guide on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Register Now The new MariaDB Server 10.2 release is out. It has some interesting new features, but...
by Kenny Gryp | Jun 23, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
Thank you for attending the Wednesday, June 21, 2017 high availability webinar titled Percona XtraDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, MySQL Group Replication. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for that webinar. You can find the slides and a recording of...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 22, 2017 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at how ClickHouse performs in a general analytical workload using the star schema benchmark test. We have mentioned ClickHouse in some recent posts (ClickHouse: New Open Source Columnar Database, Column Store Database Benchmarks:...
by Alexey Zhebel | Jun 21, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.5 on June 21, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. Changes in PMM Server PMM-667: Fixed the Latency graph in the ProxySQL Overview dashboard to plot microsecond values...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Jun 21, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
In this short blog post, we will discuss a helpful feature for tracing MongoDB queries: Cursor Comments. Cursor Comments Much like other database systems, MongoDB supports the ability for application developers to set comment strings on their database queries using...
by Dave Avery | Jun 20, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s Senior Operations Engineer, Daniel Kowalewski as he presents Deploying MySQL in Production on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now MySQL is famous for being something you can install and get going in less than...
by Yves Trudeau | Jun 20, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, we’ll look at different MySQL high availability options. The dynamic MySQL ecosystem is rapidly evolving many technologies built around MySQL. This is especially true for the technologies involved with the high availability (HA) aspects of MySQL....
by Dave Avery | Jun 19, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona’s MySQL Practice Manager Kenny Gryp and QA Engineer, Ramesh Sivaraman as they present a high availability webinar around Percona XtraDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, MySQL Group Replication on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7)....
by Colin Charles | Jun 19, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL
This blog post looks at the recent MariaDB Server 10.2 GA release. Congratulations to the MariaDB Foundation for releasing a generally available (GA) stable version of MariaDB Server 10.2! We’ll definitely spend the next few weeks talking about MariaDB Server...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 16, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
This blog shows Peter Zaitsev’s speaking schedule for this summer. Summer 2017 Speaking Engagements This week I spoke at the DB Tech Showcase OSS conference in Japan and am now heading to Europe. I have a busy schedule in June and early July, but there are...
by Michael Coburn | Jun 15, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we’ll look at three different methods for installing Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Percona offers multiple methods of installing Percona Monitoring and Management, depending on your environment and scale. I’ll also share...
by Agustín | Jun 14, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this post we’ll review how MySQL triggers can affect queries. Contrary to what the documentation states, we can activate triggers even while operating on views: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/triggers.html Important: MySQL triggers activate only for...
by Dave Avery | Jun 13, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Emanuel Calvo as he presents Demystifying Postgres Logical Replication on Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 7 am PDT / 10 am EDT (UTC-7). Register Now The Postgres logical decoding feature was added in version 9.4, and...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 9, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
In this blog, we will provide answers to the Q & A for the MySQL In the Cloud: Migration, Best Practices, High Availability, Scaling webinar. First, we want to thank everybody for attending the June 7, 2017 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are...
