Featured
MySQL 5.7
Support
Compare Percona to Leading Database Solutions
Percona Products
Percona Services
Use Cases
May 9, 2014
GTIDs in MySQL 5.6: New replication protocol; new ways to break replication
One of the MySQL 5.6 features many people are interested in is Global Transactions IDs (GTIDs). This is for a [...]
May 8, 2014
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.37-25.10 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.37-25.10 on May 8, 2014. Binaries are available from [...]
May 8, 2014
Doing a rolling upgrade of Percona XtraDB Cluster from 5.5 to 5.6
Overview Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 has been GA for several months now and people are thinking more and more about moving [...]
May 8, 2014
Percona XtraBackup 2.2.2 beta release is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.2-beta1 on May 8th 2014. Downloads are available from our [...]
May 7, 2014
May 13 Webinar: Build Better Time-Series Apps with MongoDB
NoSQL time-series applications built with MongoDB frequently need to remove expired or unwanted data. This is especially true in the [...]
May 7, 2014
MySQL Audit Plugin now available in Percona Server 5.5 and 5.6
The new Percona Server 5.5.37-35.0 and Percona Server 5.6.17-65.0-56, announced yesterday (May 6), both include the open source version of the [...]
May 7, 2014
Percona XtraBackup 2.1.9 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.9 on May 7th, 2014. Downloads are available from our [...]
May 6, 2014
Percona Server 5.6.17-65.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.17-65.0 on May 6th, 2014. Downloads are available
May 6, 2014
Row-based replication, MySQL 5.6 upgrades and temporal data types
Whither your rollback plan? MySQL 5.6 upgrades are in full swing these days and knowing how to safely upgrade from [...]
May 5, 2014
The top 9 Percona Toolkit tools that can make your job easier: May 7 Webinar
Tools for MySQL are a vital part of any deployment, so it’s important to use ones that are reliable and [...]
May 2, 2014
How to identify and cure MySQL replication slave lag
Here on the Percona MySQL Support team, we often see issues where a customer is complaining about replication delays – [...]
May 1, 2014
Maybe You Should Try Taking a Walk in My Shoes
The title of this post should really be, “Maybe He Should Try Taking a Walk in Your Shoes.” The he [...]
May 1, 2014
Parallel Query for MySQL with Shard-Query
While Shard-Query can work over multiple nodes, this blog post focuses on using Shard-Query with a single node. Shard-Query can [...]
April 30, 2014
Galera 3.5 for Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 is now available
Galera 3.5 improvements are now available for use with Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6. Bugs fixed in Galera 3.5 include: A [...]
April 29, 2014
ScaleArc: Real-world application testing with WordPress (benchmark test)
ScaleArc recently hired Percona to perform various tests on its database traffic management product. This post is the outcome of [...]
April 29, 2014
Thoughts on Small Datum – Part 2
If you did not read my first blog post about Mark Callaghan’s (@markcallaghan) benchmarks as documented in his blog, Small [...]
April 28, 2014
OOM relation to vm.swappiness=0 in new kernel
I have recently been involved in diagnosing the reasons behind OOM invocation that would kill the MySQL server process. Of [...]
April 25, 2014
Managing farms of MySQL servers with MySQL Fabric
While built-in replication has been a major cause for MySQL’s wide adoption, official tools to help DBAs manage replication topologies [...]
April 24, 2014
Encrypted and incremental MySQL backups with Percona XtraBackup
We’ve recently received a number of questions on how to implement incremental MySQL backups alongside encryption with Percona XtraBackup. Some [...]