by Dave Avery | Mar 13, 2017 | Cloud, Webinars
Join Percona’s Solutions Engineer Dimitri Vanoverbeke on Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. PDT / 10:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-7) for a webinar on Moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Register Now This webinar covers the many challenges faced when migrating applications...
by Alexey Zhebel | Mar 13, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20 on March 10, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20 is now the current release, based on the following: Percona...
by Sveta Smirnova | Mar 10, 2017 | MySQL, Security, Webinars
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Troubleshooting MySQL Access Privileges Issues webinar. First, I want to thank everybody for attending the February 23 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Mar 10, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
by Alexey Zhebel | Mar 9, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.12-3.2 on March 9, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.11-3.1 is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible,...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Mar 9, 2017 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss services monitoring using probabilistic fault detection. Let’s admit it, the task of monitoring services is one of the most difficult. It is time-consuming, error-prone and difficult to automate. The usual monitoring...
by Jon Tobin | Mar 8, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This is another post in the series of blogs on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll discuss moving away from the MMAPv1 storage engine. Introduction WIth the MongoDB v3.0 release in February of 2015, the long-awaited...
by Dave Avery | Mar 8, 2017 | MySQL
Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured talk blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the session speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these sessions can help you improve your database...
by Adamo Tonete | Mar 7, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
by Shahriyar Rzayev | Mar 6, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
In this blog post, we’ll look at how the command line tool autotokubackup can make TokuDB hot backups easier. I would like to share an experimental tool named autotokubackup, for TokuBackup. This tool is aimed at helping simplify the life of TokuDB system...
by Dave Avery | Mar 6, 2017 | MySQL, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Principal Technical Services Engineer, Sveta Smirnova as she presents “Troubleshooting Issues with MySQL Character Sets ” on March 9, 2017, at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Register Now Many MySQL novices find MySQL character sets support...
by Manjot Singh | Mar 6, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MySQL, Security
In this blog post, we’ll look at how “operator error” can cause serious problems (like the one we saw last week with AWS), and how to avoid them in MySQL using --i-am-a-dummy. Recently, AWS had some serious downtime in their East region, which they...
by Tomislav Plavcic | Mar 3, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll talk about the MongoDB audit log. Percona’s development team has always invested in the open-source community a priority – especially for...
by Federico Razzoli | Mar 2, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL
The MariaDB subquery cache feature added in MariaDB 5.3 is not widely known. Let’s see what it is and how it works. What is a subquery cache? The MariaDB subquery cache optimizes the execution of correlated subqueries. Correlated subqueries refer to a value from...
by Carlos Salguero | Mar 2, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll look at the pt-mongodb-summary tool in Percona Toolkit. The pt-mongodb-summary tool from Percona Toolkit provides a quick at-a-glance overview...
by Carlos Salguero | Mar 1, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll look at how to use the pt-mongodb-query-digest tool in Percona Toolkit 3.0. Percona’s pt-query-digest is one of our most popular Percona...
by Sveta Smirnova | Mar 1, 2017 | MySQL, Open Source
In this blog post, I’ll look for the bottleneck that prevented the performance in my previous post from achieving better results. The powerful machine I used in the tests in my previous post has a comparatively slow disk, and therefore I expected my tests would...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Feb 28, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, I hope to cover some areas to watch with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) when running MMAPv1. The graph examples from this article are from the...
by Dave Avery | Feb 27, 2017 | MongoDB, Webinars
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Adamo Tonete on Thursday, March 2, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. PST / 2:00 p.m. EST (UTC-8) as he reviews and discusses MongoDB® query patterns. Register Now MongoDB is a fast and simple-to-query schema-free database. It...
by David Busby | Feb 27, 2017 | MySQL, Security
This blog post examines the recent MySQL® ransomware attacks, and what open source database security best practices could have prevented them. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that there has been an uptick in ransomware for MongoDB and...
