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March 25, 2021
The Steps Involved in Creating a Percona Product Release
Have you ever wondered what it takes to complete Percona Server for MySQL (PS), Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and Percona [...]
March 23, 2021
Is a Session Analyzer a Good Tool to Simulate Real Traffic?
Starting a long time ago, we wanted to reproduce workload in a non-production environment, and there were different attempts to [...]
March 22, 2021
Storing Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB Secrets in Github
More and more companies are adopting GitOps as the way of implementing Continuous Deployment. Its elegant approach built upon a [...]
February 26, 2021
Connection Queuing in pgBouncer: Is it a Magical Remedy?
Yes, this post is about connection queueing, not just pooling. Because “connection pooling” – pre-created connections as a pool – [...]
February 25, 2021
Percona Monthly Bug Report: February 2021
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full-transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best [...]
February 17, 2021
The Most Important Skills for an SRE, DBRE, or DBA
I have talked extensively about the DBA’s evolving role and how many DBA’s and operations professionals are now becoming SRE’s [...]
February 15, 2021
Bare Systemd Method to Create an XFS Mount
For MongoDB data directories only XFS is recommended. The ext4 filesystem isn’t so bad but when there are a very, [...]
February 15, 2021
Top 5 Features Developers Love About MongoDB
MongoDB is one of the most admired and effortless NoSQL databases to set up. Developers want to spend time building [...]
February 9, 2021
MongoDB Sharding & Replication 101 – The Community’s Questions Answered!
A few weeks ago I sat down and talked about tuning MongoDB memory settings with Mike Grayson, one of our [...]
January 28, 2021
How to Create PostgreSQL Custom Builds and Debian Packages
Some time ago, I required a specific version of PostgreSQL. After searching on all the repositories, I was unable to [...]
January 21, 2021
Low Value in range_optimizer_max_mem_size Might Cause Full Table Scan
Although how range_optimizer_max_mem_size operates is explained in the official doc, it’s not a well-known variable and surely not a variable [...]
January 20, 2021
MySQL 8.0.23 Is Available: Highlighting Some Important Points
As many of you have seen already, MySQL 8.0.23 is available for download (release notes). Today our dear LeFred thanked [...]
January 15, 2021
MySQL 8.0.22: SHOW PROCESSLIST Version 2 – Now Available From PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA
The “SHOW PROCESSLIST” command is very famous and very useful for MySQL DBAs. It will help you to understand the [...]
January 11, 2021
A Snippet of Features: Reviewing PostgreSQL Version 13
This latest and greatest version of PostgreSQL, version 13, has been here since last summer and continues the tradition of [...]
January 8, 2021
Updated MySQL OSMetrics Plugins
It has been some time since I have posted updates to my plugins. After the initial version, I decided to [...]
January 4, 2021
Percona Monthly Bug Report: December 2020
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full-transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best [...]
November 23, 2020
Uncommon Sense MySQL – When EXPLAIN Can Trash Your Database
If I ask you if running EXPLAIN on the query can change your database, you will probably tell me NO; [...]
November 9, 2020
OpenEBS for the Management of Kubernetes Storage Volumes
I recently wrote about OpenEBS in regard to local volumes in my post Deploying Percona Kubernetes Operators with OpenEBS Local [...]
November 6, 2020
Various Backup Compression Methods Using Mysqlpump
Mysqlpump is a client program that was released with MySQL 5.7.8 and is used to perform logical backups in a [...]
November 5, 2020
New in MongoDB 4.4: Hidden Index
We already presented a previous article on the index types available on MongoDB. MongoDB 4.4 was released a few months [...]