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September 13, 2016
MySQL CDC, Streaming Binary Logs, and Asynchronous Triggers
In this post, we’ll look at MySQL CDC, streaming binary logs and asynchronous triggers. What is Change Data Capture and [...]
September 13, 2016
ProxySQL and MHA Integration
This blog post discusses ProxySQL and MHA integration, and how they work together. MHA (Master High Availability Manager and tools [...]
September 9, 2016
Basic Housekeeping for MySQL Indexes
In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the basic housekeeping steps for MySQL indexes. We all know that [...]
August 17, 2016
How Apache Spark makes your slow MySQL queries 10x faster
In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to improve the performance of slow MySQL queries using Apache Spark. In my [...]
August 8, 2016
Docker Images for MySQL Group Replication 5.7.14
In this post, I will point you to Docker images for MySQL Group Replication testing. There is a new release [...]
August 2, 2016
High Availability Poll Results
This blog reports the results of Percona’s high availability poll. High availability (HA) is always a hot topic. The reality [...]
July 13, 2016
Using Ceph with MySQL
Over the last year, the Ceph world drew me in. Partly because of my taste for distributed systems, but also [...]
June 30, 2016
Rescuing a crashed pt-online-schema-change with pt-archiver
This article discusses how to salvage a crashed pt-online-schema-change by leveraging pt-archiver and executing queries to ensure that the data gets accurately [...]
June 20, 2016
Webinar Thursday June 23: Choosing a MySQL High Availability Solution Today
Please join Percona, Technical Account Manager, Michael Patrick on Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 10 AM PDT (UTC-7) as he [...]
May 24, 2016
pt-online-schema-change (if misused) can’t save the day
In this blog post we’ll discuss pt-online-schema-change, and how to correctly use it. Always use pt-osc? Altering large tables can be [...]
May 23, 2016
Take Percona’s one-click high availability poll
Wondering what high availability (HA) solutions are most popular? Take our high availability poll below! HA is always a hot [...]
May 20, 2016
Introduction to Troubleshooting Performance – Troubleshooting Slow Queries webinar: Q & A
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Troubleshooting Slow Queries webinar. First, I want to [...]
May 19, 2016
Webinar Tuesday, May 24: Understanding how your MongoDB schema affects scaling, and when to consider sharding for help
Please join David Murphy on Tuesday, May 24 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) as he presents “Understanding how your MongoDB [...]
April 26, 2016
How We Made MySQL Great Again, or Upgrading MySQL with Orchestrator
In this blog post, we’ll discuss upgrading MySQL with Orchestrator. I recently had a client, Life360, that wanted to upgrade from [...]
April 13, 2016
Orchestrator-agent: How to recover a MySQL database
In our previous post, we showed how Orchestrator can handle complex replication topologies. Today we will discuss how the Orchestrator-agent complements Orchestrator by [...]
April 6, 2016
EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON wrap-up
This blog is an EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON wrap-up for the series of posts I’ve done in the last few months. In [...]
March 30, 2016
Docker MySQL Replication 101
In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the basics regarding Docker MySQL replication. Docker has gained widespread popularity in recent [...]
March 29, 2016
Read-write split routing in MaxScale
In this blog post, we’ll discuss read-write split routing in MaxScale. The two previous posts have shown how to setup high [...]
March 9, 2016
Evaluating Database Compression Methods
NOTE: This blog post contains some mistakes in data. While many of our conclusions are still valid, we’ve updated the [...]