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Alok Pathak
Alok joined Percona in May 2014 as a Consultant. He is currently working as Senior MySQL DBA in Managed Services. He has previously worked as MySQL DBA for various product and service based companies in India. His career interests include Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, High Availability, Database Clustering and Automation. When not working, he enjoys listening to music and watching sports.

Amazon RDS MySQL Minor Upgrades: Not So Fast!

The promise of DBaaS like RDS is to reduce operational overhead (among other things) and one of the stellar cases is upgrades (major and minor). The suggested procedure involves just a couple of steps. For example, using AWS Console, you can enable “Auto minor upgrade” or modify the DB instance and schedule the upgrade to […]

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments and Read Replicas

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. One of the common questions that we get is “What is Multi-AZ and how it’s different from Read Replica, do I need both?”.  I have tried to answer this question in this […]

Migrating MySQL Users to Amazon RDS

In this blog post, we’ll look at what is needed when migrating MySQL users to Amazon RDS. We’ll discuss how we can transform MySQL user grants and make them compatible with Amazon RDS. In order to deliver a managed service experience, Amazon RDS does not provide shell access to the underlying operating system. It also restricts […]

Identifying Useful Info from MySQL Row-Based Binary Logs

As a MySQL DBA/consultant, it is part of my job to decode the MySQL binary logs – and there are a number of reasons for doing that. In this post, I’ll explain how you can get the important information about your write workload using MySQL row-based binary logs and a simple awk script. MySQL Row-Based […]