It’s hard to believe Percona Live 2018 starts on Monday! We’re looking forward to seeing everyone in Santa Clara next week! Here are some quick highlights to remember: In addition to all the amazing sessions and keynotes we’ve announced, we’ll be hosting the MySQL Community Awards and the Lightning Talks on Monday during the Opening […]
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In this post, we’ll look at the MySQL 8.0 innodb_dedicated_server variable. MySQL 8.0 introduces a new variable called innodb_dedicated_server. When enabled, it auto tunes innodb_buffer_pool_size, innodb_log_file_size and innodb_flush_method at startup (if these variables are not explicitly defined in my.cnf). The new MySQL 8.0 variable automatically sizes the following variables based on the RAM size of […]
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Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Writing to you on the ground from FOSSASIA 2018, where I gave a track introduction yesterday since we have a pretty awesome database track most Saturday, and generally, all MySQL focused on Sunday. There’s even a […]
Read MoreJoin Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. SCALE16x is over. Percona had a large showing — both Peter Zaitsev & myself had talks, and the booth in the expo hall saw Rick Golba, Marc Sherwood, and Dave Avery also pop by. The lead […]
Read MoreJoin Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. I think the biggest news from Percona-land is that besides the tutorial grid, the schedule for day 1 and day 2 are live! Also notice the many “sub-themes”: a 101 track, using MySQL, MongoDB, […]
Read MoreJoin Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Still on Meltdown/Spectre, this time MariaDB Corporation has published Meltdown Vulnerability Impact On MariaDB Server – interesting the comparison between glibc/tcmalloc. Worthy Facebook thread about this too, with a bit of chat about MongoDB performance. […]
Read MoreIn this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of the new MySQL 8.0 RESOURCE_GROUP feature. One great new feature introduced in MySQL 8.0 that – from my point of view – requires attention is RESOURCE_GROUP. Short disclaimer: I want to point out that MySQL 8.0 is not GA yet, so it is possible for the MySQL […]
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The news that the latest MySQL 8.0.4 RC (release candidate) is available is indeed exciting. Unfortunately for users of the auth_socket plugin, dangers lie in wait! Back in November 2015, I reported Failure of auth_socket authentication with sha256_password as default. This prevents users that identify with the auth_socket plugin from logging in after SHA256 authentication has been […]
Read MoreJoin Percona’s, CEO and Co-Founder, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Why We’re Excited About MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Experience: Basic Tags: Developer, DBAs, Operations, Executive, MySQL There are many great new features in MySQL 8.0, but how exactly can they help your applications? […]
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Percona’s Technical Director of Quality Assurance Roel Van de Paar shares his findings on the quality of MySQL 8.0.3 RC. On 21 September 2017, our upstream friends at Oracle released MySQL 8.0.3 RC as the first MySQL 8.0 Release Candidate. I tested the MySQL 8.0.3 Release Candidate branch with selected Percona bugfixes applied and built […]
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