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Kenny GrypIn 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 CPU. The reported hardware kernel bugs allow for direct access to data held in the […]
Thank you for attending the Wednesday, June 21, 2017 high availability webinar titled Percona XtraDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, MySQL Group Replication. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for that webinar. You can find the slides and a recording of the webinar here. Is there a minimum MySQL server version for […]
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 Elasticsearch deployments. Recently, we’re seeing the same for MySQL. Let’s look and see if this is MySQL’s […]
In this blog, we’ll look at how to manually build Percona Server for MySQL RPM packages. Several customers and other people from the open source community have asked us how they could make their own Percona Server for MySQL RPM binaries from scratch. This request is often made by companies that want to add custom patches […]
If you are using Percona XtraBackup with xbcrypt to create encrypted backups, and are using versions older than 2.3.6 or 2.4.5, we advise that you upgrade Percona XtraBackup. Note: this does not affect encryption of encrypted InnoDB tables. CVE-2016-6225 Percona XtraBackup versions older than 2.3.6 or 2.4.5 suffered an issue of not properly setting the Initialization Vector (IV) for […]
In this blog post, I will discuss the CVE-2016-6662 vulnerability, how to tell if it affects you, and how to prevent the vulnerability from affecting you if you have an older version of MySQL. I’ll also list which MySQL versions include the vulnerability fixes. As we announced in a previous post, there are certain scenarios in […]
This blog post will discuss what is necessary of the Percona Live Advanced Percona XtraDB Cluster tutorial. Percona Live 2016 is happening in April! If you are attending, and you are registered to the Percona XtraDB Cluster (Galera) tutorial presented by Kenny and myself, please make sure that you: Bring your laptop, this is a […]
This blog post discusses Orchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager. What is Orchestrator? Orchestrator is a replication topology manager for MySQL. It has many great features: The topology and status of the replication tree is automatically detected and monitored Either a GUI, CLI or API can be used to check the status and perform operations Supports automatic […]
A while back, I made some changes to the plugin interface for pt-online-schema-change which allows custom replication checks to be written. As I was adding this functionality, I also added the –plugin option to pt-table-checksum. This was released in Percona Toolkit 2.2.8. With these additions, I spent some time writing a plugin that allows Percona […]
Tesora, previously called Parelastic, asked Percona to do a sysbench benchmark evaluation of its Database Virtualization Engine on specific architectures on Amazon EC2. The focus of Tesora is to provide a scalable Database As A Service platform for OpenStack. The Database Virtualization Engine (DVE) plays a part in this as it aims at allowing databases […]
This weekend, on 1-2 February, FOSDEM 2014 will take place in Brussels, Belgium. There will be MySQL talks on Saturday in the MySQL Devroom and a MySQL Community dinner afterward. 30 people have already signed up for the community dinner, we’re almost at the amount of people from last year. Last orders for the MySQL Community […]
FOSDEM is coming to town again here in Brussels this February 1-2, and as usual, there is a MySQL Devroom. Traditionally, a MySQL and Friends community dinner is also held during the event and this year is no different – we’ve organized one for Saturday, February 1 from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. (CET). If you […]
Do you want to get more familiar on how to become a MySQL DBA? Are you a developer familiar with writing applications that use MySQL but you feel a bit limited on how to manage a MySQL Database? I would like to invite you in my tutorial ‘MySQL DBA In A Nutshell! Hands On! ‘ at Percona […]
Lefred and I spent a bit of time making innotop 1.9.1. We’ve released a new version mainly to include MySQL 5.6 support as well as including some bugs fixed by Baron Schwartz and Frédéric Descamps. You can download the .tar.gz and rpm’s (new!) at http://code.google.com/p/innotop/downloads/list Bugs fixed: Issue 71: DBI prints to STDERR instead of just throwing an […]
Just like previous years, the ‘MySQL And Friends’ community is gathering to have a dinner on the Saturdaynight of FOSDEM. This time it is on February 2nd, 2013. This year, it will not be an Italian restaurant, but more a Belgian style restaurant, about 10 minutes walk from the FOSDEM event. Mirabelle: http://www.mirabelle.be/index.php?lang=en Chaussée de Boondael, […]
The Web And PHP Magazine just published an article describing Percona XtraDB Cluster written by Liz van Dijk and Kenny Gryp. It is a pretty high-level introduction to the technology, so definitely give it a read if you’ve been wanting to give it a closer look. Go to their website http://www.webandphp.com and download Issue number 9 for free! […]
Another Percona Live event is coming up, this time in London on the 3rd and 4th of December. I’m sure it is going to be as awesome as it was last year. This year, I will talk about ‘Choosing Hardware For MySQL‘. Of course, the most important hardware components will be covered: CPU, Memory, Network, […]
Percona has 2 talks lined up at OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany: – Taking hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by Kenny Gryp Feel free to come and say Hi! On April 25 & 26, 2012 the Open Source Data Center Conference will invite experienced administrators and architects […]
Even if you didn’t make it to Percona Live London, you can get the chance to hang out with us. We’re giving a reception at the Revolution Bar America Square just a few meters walk from the Tower Hill Underground between 17:30 and 19:30 today (Tuesday 25 October 2011). All friends of Percona are welcome. See you […]
Kris Buytaert organized a MySQL Meetup at FOSDEM last year, and because of the success we’ll be doing it again this year, in the same restaurant: Sogno d’Italia. Everybody is invited to come to the dinner. Just register on http://mysqlandfriendsfosdem2011.eventbrite.com/ so we have an idea how many reservations we should make. The maximum capacity is about 40 people. We’ll plan […]