Apr 15, 2022 |
Percona Events, Percona Live
Percona Live is about one month away and the schedule has a lot of content. But what are we missing? Occasionally we have speakers who cannot make the event at the last minute or discover a room with an unused time slot. So, if we had one of these speaking slots open up, what would […]
Mar 30, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
MySQL Shell For VS Code integrates the MySQL Shell directly into VS Code development workflows and was released last week. This extension to the popular VS Code platform enables interactive editing and execution of SQL for MySQL Databases and optionally the MySQL Database Service for several simultaneous sessions. It is a preview release and not […]
Mar 28, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, MariaDB
MariaDB 10.9 is a preview release of the popular open source database server and is considered alpha level code (pronounced: Not for production). It offers a glimpse of the evolution of the product and introduces some new features, at least for MariaDB. Since I took a peek at the MySQL 8.0.28 release notes recently, it […]
Mar 25, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a multi-faceted tool that includes the Security Threat Tool which provides the ability to check your databases for potential configuration or performance problems. And boy was I shocked to find I had problems when I installed PMM for testing. The complete list of checks that PMM runs daily can […]
Mar 16, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
Oracle released MySQL 8.0.28 on January 18th with little fanfare, as part of their four times a year release cycle. So what is included in the new release? Over the past few years, there have been some cool new features included in these ‘dot’ releases that some in the community say would have been better […]