by Muhammad Irfan | Oct 18, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog, we’ll discuss things to watch out for during a MySQL downgrade. Previously, I wrote the blog MySQL upgrade best practices. Besides upgrading your MySQL version, sometimes you need to downgrade. When it comes to downgrading MySQL, there are two...
by Muhammad Irfan | Sep 14, 2016 | MySQL
Recently, I worked on a customer case where the customer needed to monitor the checksum via Nagios monitoring. The pmp-check-pt-table-checksum plugin from Percona Monitoring Plugins for MySQL achieves this goal. I thought it was worth a blogpost....
by Muhammad Irfan | Aug 19, 2016 | MySQL, Webinars
Thank you for attending my 22nd July 2016 webinar titled “Top Most Overlooked MySQL Performance Optimizations”. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for that webinar. For hardware, which disk raid level do you suggest? Is raid5 suggested...
by Muhammad Irfan | May 16, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the possible reasons for MySQL “Got an error reading communication packet” errors and how to address them. In Percona’s managed services, we often receive customer questions on communication failure errors. So...
by Muhammad Irfan | Mar 17, 2016 | MySQL
This is the second and last tutorial blog post on how to use pt-table-checksum / pt-table-sync tools for MySQL replication. In the first post, I showed you how to use the pt-table-checksum / pt-table-sync tools in a typical MySQL replication setup. In this post,...
by Muhammad Irfan | Nov 4, 2015 | MySQL
MySQL 5.7 has a lot of enhancements and new features. I summarized this list previously in this blog post. Adding replication filters online is one of the MySQL 5.7 features described in this manual. However, I will describe and summarize a few examples in this blog...
by Muhammad Irfan | Aug 12, 2015 | MySQL
MySQL replication is a process that allows you to easily maintain multiple copies of MySQL data by having them copied automatically from a master to a slave database. It’s essential to make sure the slave servers have the same set of data as the master to ensure...
by Muhammad Irfan | May 27, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Services
The other day I was discussing new features of MySQL 5.7 with a Percona Support customer. After that conversation, I thought it would be a good idea to compile list of important features of MySQL 5.7. The latest MySQL 5.7.6 release candidate (RC) is out and is packed...
by Muhammad Irfan | Mar 16, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Services
One of our Percona Support customers recently reported that Percona XtraBackup failed with a page corruption error on an InnoDB table. The customer thought it was a problem or bug in the Percona XtraBackup tool. After investigation we found that an InnoDB page was...
by Muhammad Irfan | Feb 27, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
DBAs often encounter situations where they need to kill queries to ensure there are no long-running queries on a MySQL server that would impact performance. Long-running queries can be the result of many factors. Fortunately, Percona Server contains some handy tools...
by Muhammad Irfan | Dec 9, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In MySQL 5.6 Oracle introduced a Transportable Tablespace feature (copying tablespaces to another server) and Percona Server adopted it for partial backups which means you can now take individual database or table backups and your destination server can be a vanilla...
by Muhammad Irfan | Oct 8, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Services
MySQL replication is a core process for maintaining multiple copies of data – and replication is a very important aspect in database administration. In order to synchronize data between master and slaves you need to make sure that data transfers smoothly, and to...
by Muhammad Irfan | Sep 19, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
MySQL upgrades are necessary tasks and we field a variety of questions here at Percona Support regarding MySQL upgrade best practices. This post highlights the recommended ways to upgrade MySQL in different scenarios. Why are MySQL upgrades needed? The reasons are...
by Muhammad Irfan | Sep 4, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
Here on the iostat is one of the popular tools and pt-diskstats tool for this purpose. The pt-diskstats tool is similar to iostat but it’s more interactive and contains extended information. pt-diskstats reports current disk activity and shows the statistics for...
by Muhammad Irfan | May 2, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Here on the Managing Slave Lag with MySQL Replication,” both by Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev). In today’s post, however, I will share some new ways of identifying delays in replication – including possible causes of lagging slaves – and how to...
by Muhammad Irfan | Mar 14, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
MySQL has a nice feature: MySQL slow query log, which allows you to log all queries that exceed a predefined about of time to execute. Peter Zaitsev first wrote about this back in 2006 – there have been a few other posts here on the MySQL Performance Blog since...
by Muhammad Irfan | Dec 30, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Services
Recently, one of our support customers faced this: “[ERROR] mysqld: Sort aborted: Server shutdown in progress.” At first it would appear this occurred because of a mysql restart (i.e. the MySQL server restarted and the query got killed during the stopping...
by Muhammad Irfan | Nov 28, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Services
Editor’s Note: Follow up to this post here MySQL 5.7 Performance Tuning After Installation. We have always received quite a few questions here at wait_timeout is an important parameter to tune and discard unused or idle connections to minimize the number of...
by Muhammad Irfan | Sep 20, 2013 | MySQL
I recently stumbled upon a post that Peter Zaitsev published back in 2007 titled “Percona Server 5.5 and in Oracle MySQL 5.6. Persistent optimizer statistics is one of the features first introduced in here. This feature is now included in Oracle MySQL 5.6, too....
by Muhammad Irfan | Jul 15, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Server’s “crash-resistant replication” feature is useful in versions 5.1 through 5.5. However, in Percona Server 5.6 it’s replaced with Oracle MySQL 5.6’s “crash safe replication” feature, which has it’s own...
