For most people (including me until recently) database XA transactions are a fuzzy concept. In over eight years with Percona, I have never had to deal with XA transactions. Then a few weeks ago I got two customers having issues with XA transactions. That deserves a post.
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This blog post will give a brief overview of Amazon RDS capabilities and limitations, and how Percona Support can help you succeed in your Amazon RDS deployments. One of the common questions that we get from customers and prospective customers is about Percona Support with Amazon RDS. As many companies have shifted to the cloud, […]
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Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post is with Alexey Kopytov, sofware […]
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In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to run and use sysbench histograms. One of the features of sysbench that I often I see overlooked (and rarely used) is its ability to produce detailed query response time histograms in addition to computing percentile numbers. Looking at histograms together with throughput or latency over time […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 on September 20, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 is now the current release, based on the following: Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2 Galera Replication library 3.21 wsrep API version 26 All Percona software is open-source and […]
Read MoreWelcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post is with Dana Van Aken, […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL improves MySQL SSL connection performance. When deploying MySQL with SSL, the main concern is that the initial handshake causes significant overhead if you are not using connection pools (i.e., mysqlnd-mux with PHP, mysql.connector.pooling in Python, etc.). Closing and making new connections over and over can greatly impact […]
Read MoreWelcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter. This blog post is with Charity Majors, CEO/Cofounder […]
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In this blog post, we talk about the results of Percona’s time series database poll “What Database Engine Are You Using to Store Time Series Data?” Time series data is some of the most actionable data available when it comes to analyzing trends and making predictions. Simply put, time series data is data that is […]
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This post is the third of a series focusing on the MySQL high availability solutions available in 2017. The first post looked at the elders, the technologies that have been around for more than ten years. The second post talked about the adults, the more recent and mature technologies. In this post, we will look […]
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