Jun 05, 2025 |
MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
TL;DR Percona Server for MySQL now offers experimental support for stored programs in the JS language. This free and open source alternative to Oracle’s Enterprise/Cloud-only feature enables users to write stored programs in a more modern, convenient, and often more familiar language. It is still in active development, and we would very much like your […]
Dec 03, 2024 |
Insight for DBAs, MySQL
TL;DR ALTER TABLE and OPTIMIZE TABLE on an InnoDB table, which rebuilds the table without blocking concurrent changes to it (i.e., executed using INPLACE algorithm) and concurrent DML or purge activity on the table can occasionally lead to two significant problems: ALTER/OPTIMIZE TABLE failing with an unnecessary duplicate key error (even though there are no […]
Feb 20, 2023 |
MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Introduction/TLDR: We are considering changing EXPLAIN in Percona Server for MySQL to require less privileges for providing execution plans for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements (and possibly changing the behavior for EXPLAIN SELECT as well), to make it more convenient and safer to use with monitoring and query analysis tools. We would like to get feedback from the […]