by Michael Coburn | Jan 16, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona’s Product Manager Michael Coburn as he presents MySQL Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Part 2 on Thursday, January 18, 2018, at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Register Now Tags: Percona...
by Marco Tusa | Jan 15, 2018 | Monitoring, MySQL, ProxySQL, Security
In this blog post, we’ll look at ProxySQL firewalling (how to use ProxySQL as a firewall). Not long ago we had an internal discussion about security, and how to enforce a stricter set of rules to prevent malicious acts and block other undesired queries. ProxySQL...
by Dave Avery | Jan 15, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Take a look at the sneak peek of the breakout sessions for the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. Early Bird registration discounts are available until...
by Jaime Sicam | Jan 12, 2018 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In this short blog post, I will show you how you can compare current and past time series in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Recently, a support customer shared a graph with us that compared query throughput between today and yesterday as a confirmation that...
by Colin Charles | Jan 12, 2018 | MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, PostgreSQL, Storage Engine
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Much is still being talked about the Meltdown/Spectre CPU security vulnerabilities. There’s an interesting Twitter...
by Agustín | Jan 11, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this short blogpost, we’ll show you how to use the mysql_random_data_load tool to insert random data into tables. This is a great aide in testing when you have empty tables and need them to be populated with data. We’ve all done it manually (the INSERT...
by Alexander Rubin | Jan 10, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, I’ll provide an explanation of why you should avoid using the CREATE TABLE AS SELECT statement. The SQL statement “create table <table_name> as select …” is used to create a normal or temporary table and materialize the...
by Jervin Real | Jan 9, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this post, we’ll look at updating and deleting rows with ClickHouse. It’s the first of two parts. You can see Part 2 of this post here. ClickHouse is fast Blazing fast! It’s quite easy to pick up, and with ProxySQL integrating with existing...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 9, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s, CEO and Co-Founder, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Why We’re Excited About MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Experience: Basic Tags: Developer, DBAs, Operations, Executive, MySQL There are many great...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 8, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at how ioping can be used with other tools to understand and troubleshoot storage performance, specifically as it relates to MySQL workloads. I recently ran into ioping, a nice little utility by Konstantin Khlebnikov that checks storage...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Jan 8, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.20-19 on January 3, 2018. 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....
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 5, 2018 | MySQL, Webinars
Thank you for attending my webinar on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, InnoDB Performance Optimization. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the webinar. Are the T2 CPUs similar to the M4 series? I would expect them to be similar. Amazon does not...
by Colin Charles | Jan 5, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Events, PostgreSQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Happy New Year. Here’s to 2018 being a great year in the open source database world. What is in store for us?...
by Tom De Cooman | Jan 4, 2018 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Security
In this blog post, we examine the recent revelations about CPU security vulnerabilities. The beginning of the new year also brings to light fresh and new CPU security vulnerabilities. Today’s big offenders originate on the hardware side – more specifically, the...
by Borys Belinsky | Jan 4, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.6 on January 4, 2018. 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...
by Lorraine Pocklington, Community Manager | Jan 3, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
In 2017 we have welcomed many new customers into the Percona fold. It’s always interesting to find out what challenges the Percona team helped them to address and how they chose their relationship with Percona. As unbiased champions of open source database software,...
by David Ducos | Jan 2, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, ProxySQL
In this post, we’ll look at how to improve queries using generated columns and ProxySQL instead of implementing a referenced table. Developers and architects don’t always have the time or complete information to properly analyze and design a database. That is...
