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September 4, 2013
Running MySQL 5.6 on Amazon RDS: Webinar followup questions answered
Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar, Q: Would you recommend Amazon RDS over manually setting up MySQL/Percona server [...]
August 29, 2013
Considering TokuDB as an engine for timeseries data
I am working on a customer’s system where the requirement is to store a lot of timeseries data from different [...]
August 27, 2013
Percona Server 5.1.71-14.9 is now available!
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.71-14.9 on August 27th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software [...]
August 27, 2013
Percona Server 5.5.33-31.1 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.33-31.1 on August 27th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software [...]
August 26, 2013
MySQL Security Webinar: Follow-up Q&A
Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar on MySQL security; hopefully you’ve all gone out and set SELinux to [...]
August 21, 2013
Amazon RDS with MySQL 5.6 – Configuration Variables
One longstanding complaint I have heard for the past several years, and still hear today, is that Amazon’s Relational Database [...]
August 20, 2013
Why is the ibdata1 file continuously growing in MySQL?
We often receive this question about the ibdata1 file in MySQL at Percona Support. The panic starts when the monitoring [...]
August 17, 2013
MySQL 5.6 security vs ease of use
MySQL 5.6 surely changes the game when it comes to security vs ease of use. Before MySQL 5.6 we would [...]
August 16, 2013
MySQL Security: Armoring Your Dolphin
My colleague and teammate Ernie Souhrada will be presenting a webinar on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 10 a.m. PDT [...]
August 15, 2013
TokuMX tip: Create any field name you want
A common MongoDB tip is to create short field names to save storage space. Because MongoDB does not compress its [...]
August 15, 2013
Percona University at Washington, D.C. – Sept. 12
Following our events earlier this year in Raleigh, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Portland, we bring Percona University to Washington, [...]
August 14, 2013
Getting Percona PAM to work with Percona Server & its client apps
Percona Server is bundled with the PAM plugin which opens a plethora of ways to authenticate to MySQL such as [...]
August 12, 2013
Want to archive tables? Use Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver
Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver is one of the best utilities to archive the records from large tables to another tables or [...]
August 11, 2013
Can you really be Bias free ?
When we started Percona about 7 years ago one of the ideas behind the business was to provide customer focused [...]
August 9, 2013
Percona XtraBackup 2.1.4 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.4 on August 9th, 2013. Downloads are available from our [...]
August 9, 2013
The top 5 proactive measures to minimize MySQL downtime
I’m happy to announce that the recording for my recent webinar “5 Proactive Measures to Minimize MySQL Downtime” is now [...]
August 8, 2013
Big Data with MySQL and Hadoop at MySQL Connect 2013
I will be talking about Big Data with MySQL and Hadoop at MySQL Connect 2013 (Sept. 21-22) in San Francisco as well [...]
August 7, 2013
Building TokuMX and TokuDB for Production
Recently, we’ve seen a few people ask us about building TokuMX from scratch. While it’s best if you just use [...]
August 7, 2013
Percona Server 5.6 Webinar follow-up and Q&A
Good news everyone! I recently presented a webinar: Percona Server 5.6: Enterprise Grade MySQL. It was also recorded so you [...]
August 5, 2013
John Cesario of Go Daddy on Percona MySQL Training
Senior MySQL DBA John Cesario of Go Daddy spoke at Percona Live in April and shared his views on Percona [...]