Jun 23, 2021 |
Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
At some point, your needs for improving database performance may run into a threshold where optimization and tuning are no longer enough. If you cannot change the database engine and can no longer tune the parameters for your workload, you need to use scaling. As it is widely known, scaling may be either vertical or […]
Jun 12, 2020 |
Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Security
In most cases, MySQL password instructions provide information on changing MySQL user passwords on the production system (e.g., reset root password without restart). It is even recommended to change passwords regularly for security reasons. But still, sometimes DBA duties on legacy systems offer surprises and you need to recover the original password for some old […]
Nov 26, 2019 |
Benchmarks, Cloud, Hardware and Storage, MySQL
Making backups over the network can be done in two ways: either save on disk and transfer or just transfer without saving. Both ways have their strong and weak points. The second way, particularly, is highly dependent on the upload speed, which would either reduce or increase the backup time. Other factors that influence it […]
Feb 23, 2018 |
Cloud, MariaDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Please join Percona’s Build / Release Engineer, Mykola Marzhan, as he presents Monitoring Amazon RDS with Percona Monitoring and Management on February 27, 2018, at 7:00 am PST (UTC-8) / 10:00 am EST (UTC-5). Register Now Are you concerned about how you are monitoring your AWS environment? Keeping track of what is happening in your Amazon […]