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November 29, 2021
MyDumper 0.11.3 is Now Available
The new MyDumper 0.11.3 version, which includes many new features and bug fixes, is now available. You can download the [...]
November 26, 2021
Percona Monthly Bug Report: November 2021
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the [...]
November 24, 2021
Querying Archived RDS Data Directly From an S3 Bucket
A recommendation we often give to our customers is along the lines of “archive old data” to reduce your database [...]
November 23, 2021
Upgrading PostGIS: A Proof Of Concept
My last blog introduced the issues one can face when upgrading PostGIS and PostgreSQL at the same time. The purpose [...]
November 22, 2021
Temporary Tables in MySQL – Never Ending Story?
If you ever had to deal with performance and/or disk space issues related to temporary tables, I bet you eventually [...]
November 18, 2021
Should I Create an Index on Foreign Keys in PostgreSQL?
Welcome to a weekly blog where I get to answer (like, really answer) some of the questions I’ve seen in [...]
November 10, 2021
Community Meetup Schedule Till the End of the Year
This fall we started to run live-streamed online meetups accompanied by a live chat with the audience. Every week we [...]
November 10, 2021
Issues Upgrading PostGIS and PostgreSQL
PostGIS is arguably the best GIS implementation in the world. There may be other database technologies with GIS but the [...]
November 9, 2021
What if … MySQL’s Repeatable Reads Cause You to Lose Money?
Well, let me say if that happens it’s because there is a logic mistake in your application. But you need [...]
November 5, 2021
Upcoming End of Life for PMM v1 and MongoDB 4.0, Ubuntu 16.04 End of Support
TL;DR The table below summarizes the message in this blog post. For more details and reasoning, please continue reading. What [...]
November 4, 2021
Externally Sourced Configuration File Values in MongoDB
Since version 4.2, MongoDB provides a new interesting feature called Externally Sourced Configuration File Values. It allows administrators to specify [...]
October 25, 2021
Comparing Graviton (ARM) Performance to Intel and AMD for MySQL (Part 2)
Recently we published the first part of research comparing Graviton (ARM) with AMD and Intel CPU on AWS. In the [...]
October 20, 2021
MongoDB 5.0 Time Series Collections
In a previous article, I tested a new feature of MongoDB 5.0: resharding. Today, I take a look at another [...]
October 19, 2021
How to Build Percona Server for MongoDB for Various Operating Systems
Following this series of blog posts started by Evgeniy Patlan: How to Manually Build Percona Server for MySQL RPM Packages [...]
October 18, 2021
Cloud-Native Through the Prism of Percona: Episode 1
The cloud-native landscape matures every day, and new great tools and products continue to appear. We are starting a series [...]
October 15, 2021
Comparing Graviton (ARM) Performance to Intel and AMD for MySQL
Recently, AWS presented its own CPU on ARM architecture for server solutions. It was Graviton. As a result, they update [...]
October 13, 2021
Migrating MongoDB to Kubernetes
This blog post is the last in the series of articles on migrating databases to Kubernetes with Percona Operators. Two [...]
October 12, 2021
Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL
Often users come to us with incidents of database crashes due to OOM Killer. The Out Of Memory killer terminates [...]
October 8, 2021
MySQL 8: Random Password Generator
As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how using the new dual [...]
October 7, 2021
Using the Range and the New Multirange Data Type in PostgreSQL 14
Don’t miss the great overview of PostgreSQL 14 that Umair Shahid recently put together, PostgreSQL 14 – Performance, Security, Usability, [...]