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May 4, 2020
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Packages are Available
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) packages have been released into our repositories. The most recent versions of Percona Server for [...]
May 4, 2020
Testing Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 with DBdeployer
In the light of support for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), the DBdeployer anniversary, and the newly released Percona XtraDB Cluster [...]
April 28, 2020
Restoring a MongoDB Sharded Cluster to a Different Environment
If you have been working in the database field for some time, you have likely come across the need to [...]
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April 24, 2020
[Warning] InnoDB: Difficult to Find Free Blocks in the Buffer Pool
A couple of weeks ago, one of our customers reached us asking about the WARNING messages in their MySQL error [...]
April 24, 2020
Percona Server for MongoDB LDAP Enhancements: User-to-DN Mapping
Automatic Role-Based Authorization by LDAP Comes to Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) In PSMDB 4.2.5-5, admins now have a way [...]
April 21, 2020
MySQL Group Replication – Partial Network Failure Performance Impact
In this two-part blog series, I wanted to cover some failover scenarios with Group Replication. In part one, I will [...]
April 21, 2020
Using Vault to Store the Master Key for Data at Rest Encryption on Percona Server for MongoDB
Since the release of Percona Server MongoDB 3.6.13 (PSMDB), you have been able to use Vault to store the encryption [...]
April 20, 2020
Tactics to Scale Down Your MongoDB Deployment
“Get big fast” was a mantra in the second eCommerce boom. MongoDB’s success during its startup years was due in [...]
April 9, 2020
Daylight Saving Time and System Time Zone in MySQL
March is not only the month when a pandemic closed all borders and people had to stay home on the [...]
April 8, 2020
The Evolution of the DBA Role
As I interface with large clients as a Technical Account Manager (TAM) at Percona, one thing I have noticed is [...]
April 7, 2020
18 Things You Can Do to Remove MySQL Bottlenecks Caused by High Traffic (Part Three)
This is a three-part blog series that focuses on dealing with an unexpected high traffic event as it is happening. [...]
April 6, 2020
18 Things You Can Do to Remove MySQL Bottlenecks Caused by High Traffic (Part Two)
This is a three-part blog series that focuses on dealing with an unexpected high traffic event as it is happening. [...]
April 3, 2020
18 Things You Can Do to Remove MySQL Bottlenecks Caused by High Traffic (Part One)
This is a three-part blog series. Part two is located here, and part three can be found here. There was [...]
April 1, 2020
Tips for MySQL 5.7 Database Tuning and Performance
While there is no magic bullet for MySQL 5.7 database tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused [...]
March 30, 2020
Which Cloud Provider Performs Better for My Mysql Workload?
More and more people are nowadays thinking of cloud migration. The question of “Which cloud provider performs better for my [...]
March 26, 2020
Split-Brain 101: What You Should Know
Disclaimer: The following blog post does not try to provide a solution for split-brain situations, and the example provided is [...]
March 25, 2020
A Tale About Migrating a PostgreSQL Database Between Different DBaaS Providers
We recently helped migrate a production PostgreSQL database running on a given DBaaS platform… to another DBaaS platform. When it [...]
March 24, 2020
The Changing Face of Enterprise DBAs in Cloud-Driven Environments
Over the past ten years, those in charge of running enterprise databases saw their focus shift from simply ensuring access [...]
March 23, 2020
Setting up a ProxySQL Sidecar Container
Recently, a client of ours, Duolingo, was using Aurora was reaching the max connection limit of 16,000 (that is Aurora’s [...]