by Dave Avery | Jun 8, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL
In this post, we’ll use a blog poll to find out what operating system you use to run your production database servers. As databases grow to meet more challenges and expanding application demands, they must try and get the maximum amount of performance out of...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 7, 2017 | MySQL
In this blog post, I’ll look at how ProxySQL Admin behaves in some unusual and unexpected ways from a MySQL perspective. ProxySQL allows you to connect to its admin interface using the MySQL protocol and use familiar tools, like the MySQL command line client, to...
by Manjot Singh | Jun 6, 2017 | MySQL, Security
In this first of a series of blog posts, we’ll look at MySQL encryption at rest. 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 needs to be encrypted “at...
by Dave Avery | Jun 6, 2017 | MongoDB, Webinars
Join Percona’s Solutions Engineer, Rick Golba as he presents MongoDB Shell: A Primer on Thursday, June 8, 2017, at 11 am PDT / 2 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Every good DBA should be a master of the database shell. In this webinar, we will help you understand how to...
by Dave Avery | Jun 5, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Storage Engine
Announcing the opening of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 in Dublin, Ireland call for papers. It will be open from now until July 17, 2017.* Do you have a big idea to explain, use case to share or skill to teach? Submit your speaking...
by Dave Avery | Jun 5, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s CEO and Founder Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL In the Cloud: Migration, Best Practices, High Availability, Scaling on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at 10 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Businesses are moving many of the systems and processes...
by Alexey Zhebel | Jun 2, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.18-29.20 on June 2, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories. NOTE: You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository. NOTE: Due to...
by Alexey Zhebel | Jun 2, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.36-26.20 on June 2, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.36-26.20 is now the current release, based on the following: Percona Server...
by Ramesh Sivaraman | May 31, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at how Percona XtraDB Cluster maintenance mode uses ProxySQL to take cluster nodes offline without impacting workloads. Percona XtraDB Cluster Maintenance Mode Since Percona XtraDB Cluster offers a high availability solution, it...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 30, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.7-2 on May 29, 2017. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large...
by Dave Avery | May 30, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Percona’s solution engineer, Dimitri Vanoverbeke as he presents Online MySQL Backups with Percona XtraBackup on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online...
by Alexey Zhebel | May 29, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.4 on May 29, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. This release includes experimental support for MongoDB in Query Analytics, including updated QAN interface. Query...
by Alexey Zhebel | May 26, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.15-1.10 on May 26, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, fully compatible,...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 26, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-15 on May 26, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository. Based...
by Marco Tusa | May 25, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL and mirroring go together. Overview Let me be clear: I love ProxySQL, and I think it is a great component for expanding architecture flexibility and high availability. But not all that shines is gold! In this post, I...
by Dave Avery | May 24, 2017 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
This blog post is a summary of the Percona Software and Roadmap Update – Q2 2017 webinar given by Peter Zaitsev on May 4, 2017. This webinar reflects changes and updates since the last update (Q1 2017). A full recording of this webinar, along with the...
by Agustín | May 23, 2017 | MySQL
In this post, we’ll see how to make Docker images available to servers that don’t have access to the Internet (i.e., machines where docker pull <image_name> does not work). As a specific example, we will do this with the latest Percona Monitoring and...
by Agustín | May 22, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, we’ll look at ICP counters in the information_schema.INNODB_METRICS. This is part two of the Index Condition Pushdown (ICP) counters blog post series. As mentioned in the previous post, in this blog we will look at how to check on ICP counters on...
by Dave Avery | May 22, 2017 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Bimal Kharel on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, as he presents a webinar on MongoDB monitoring called How to Help Your DBA’s Sleep Better at Night at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Are you trying...
by Alexey Zhebel | May 19, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.3 on May 19, 2017. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL and MongoDB server and system tasks too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona...
