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December 16, 2016
MongoDB PIT Backups In Depth
In this blog is an in-depth discussion of MongoDB PIT backups. Note: INTIMIDATION FREE ZONE!! This post is meant to [...]
November 14, 2016
Using Vault with MySQL
Using Vault with MySQL In my previous post I discussed using GPG to secure your database credentials. This relies on [...]
September 28, 2016
7 Fresh Bugs in MySQL 8.0
This blog post will look at seven bugs in MySQL 8.0. Friday afternoon is always ideal for a quick look [...]
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 [...]
August 13, 2015
MySQL Quality Assurance: A Vision for the Future by Roel Van de Paar (Final Episode 13)
Welcome to the final – but most important – episode in the MySQL QA Series. In it, I present my vision [...]
August 11, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 12: My server is crashing… Now what? For customers or users experiencing a crash
My server is crashing… Now what? This special episode in the MySQL QA Series is for customers or users experiencing a crash. [...]
August 4, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 11: Valgrind Testing: Pro’s, Con’s, Why and How
Today’s episode is all about Valgrind – from the pro’s to the con’s, from the why to the how! This episode [...]
July 31, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 10: Reproducing and Simplifying: How to get it Right
Welcome to the 10th episode in the MySQL QA series! Today we’ll talk about reproducing and simplifying: How to get [...]
July 28, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 9: Reducing Testcases for Experts: multi-threaded reducer.sh
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 9. This episode will go more in-depth into reducer.sh: Reducing Testcases for Experts: multi-threaded reducer.sh We [...]
July 21, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 7: Reducing Testcases for Beginners – single-threaded reducer.sh!
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode #7 – Reducing Testcases for Beginners: single-threaded reducer.sh! In this episode we’ll learn how to use [...]
July 15, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 6: Analyzing and Filtering
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode #6! Today we will look into analyzing and filtering our QA run. We’ll use tools [...]
July 13, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 5: Preparing Your QA Run with pquery
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode #5! In this episode we’ll be setting up and running pquery for the first time… [...]
July 8, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 4: QA Framework Setup Time!
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 4! In this episode we’ll look into setting up our QA Framework: percona-qa, pquery, reducer & [...]
July 7, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 3: How to use the debugging tool GDB
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 3: “Debugging: GDB, Backtraces, Frames and Library Dependencies” In this episode you’ll learn how to [...]
May 15, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 2: Build a MySQL server – Git, Bazaar, Compiling & Build tools
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 2: Build a MySQL Server – Git, Bazaar (bzr), Compiling, and Build Tools In this [...]
April 9, 2015
pquery binaries with statically included client libs now available!
After we released pquery to the community, and as we started logging bug reports with pquery testcases, it quickly became clear [...]
April 7, 2015
More on (transactional) MySQL metadata locks
Two years ago Ovais Tariq had explained in detail what kinds of problems existed before MySQL introduced metadata locks in [...]
March 17, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun
MySQL QA Episode #1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun This episode consists of 13 parts, and an [...]
March 17, 2015
Free MySQL QA & Bash/Linux Training Series
Welcome to the MySQL QA Training Series! If you have not read our introductory blog post on pquery yet, I’d [...]
March 13, 2015
MySQL and geospatial programming: An introduction to GIS
Geographic information systems (GIS) are used by application developers to incorporate geographic information into their datasets to create apps with [...]