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January 2, 2020
Implementing a Database Center of Excellence
In your organization, who decides what database platform will be utilized for that new application being built? For many groups, [...]
November 22, 2019
MySQL UUIDs – Bad For Performance
If you do a quick web search about UUIDs and MySQL, you’ll get a fair number of results. Here are [...]
October 29, 2019
Column Histograms on Percona Server and MySQL 8.0
From time to time you may have experienced that MySQL was not able to find the best execution plan for [...]
August 5, 2019
MongoDB: Impact-free Index Builds using Detached ReplicaSet Nodes
Creating an index on a MongoDB collection is simple; just run the command CreateIndex and that’s all there is to [...]
July 19, 2019
Upcoming Webinar 7/23: 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers Make when Writing SQL
Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer Charly Batista as he presents “10 Common Mistakes (Java) Developers Make when Writing SQL” [...]
June 26, 2019
Stored Functions and Temporary Tables are Not a Good Fit
In this blog post, I am going to show why we have to be careful with stored functions in select [...]
June 12, 2019
How to Report Bugs, Improvements, New Feature Requests for Percona Products
Clear and structured bug, improvement, and new feature request reports are always helpful for validating and fixing issues. In a [...]
May 8, 2019
MySQL InnoDB Sorted Index Builds
It’s not essential to understand how MySQL® and Percona Server for MySQL build indexes. However, if you have an understanding [...]
May 1, 2019
Watch Webinar: Speaking the same language as Developers and DBAs
Please join, Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn as he presents his talk Speaking the same language as Developers and DBAs. [...]
April 25, 2019
Creating Custom Sysbench Scripts
Sysbench has long been established as the de facto standard when it comes to benchmarking MySQL performance. Percona relies on [...]
April 5, 2019
Writing PostgreSQL Extensions is Fun – C Language
PostgreSQL is a powerful open source relational database management system. It extends the SQL language with additional features. A DBMS [...]
January 22, 2019
Upcoming Webinar Thurs 1/24: Databases Gone Serverless?
Please join Percona’s Senior Technical Manager, Alkin Tezuysal, as he presents Databases Gone Serverless? on Thursday, January 24th, at 6:00 AM [...]
January 14, 2019
Upcoming Webinar Thurs 1/17: How to Rock with MyRocks
Please join Percona’s Chief Technology Officer, Vadim Tkachenko, as he presents How to Rock with MyRocks on Thursday, January 17th [...]
January 8, 2019
Upcoming Webinar Wed 1/9: Walkthrough of Percona Server MySQL 8.0
Please join Percona’s MySQL Product Manager, Tyler Duzan as he presents Walkthrough of Percona Server MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, January [...]
January 3, 2019
Upcoming Webinar Friday 1/4: High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide
Please join Percona’s Senior Software Engineer, Ibrar Ahmed as he presents his High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide on Friday, [...]
December 11, 2018
Upcoming Webinar Wed 12/12: MySQL 8 for Developers
Please join Percona’s CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL 8 for Developers on Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 at 11:00 [...]
December 5, 2018
Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. rand) Can Surprise You
Working on a test case with sysbench, I encountered this: [crayon-6998556fa07aa471234659/] I was really surprised. First, and the most important, [...]
December 4, 2018
MongoDB 4.0: Using ACID Multi-Document Transactions
MongoDB 4.0 is around, and there are a lot of new features and improvements. In this article we’re going to [...]
November 29, 2018
MySQL High Availability: Stale Reads and How to Fix Them
Continuing on the series of blog posts about MySQL High Availability, today we will talk about stale reads and how [...]
November 21, 2018
Identifying Unused Indexes in MongoDB
Like MySQL, having too many indexes on a MongoDB collection not only affects overall write performance, but disk and memory [...]