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January 5, 2022
In Application and Database Design, Small Things Can Have a Big Impact
With modern application design, systems are becoming more diverse, varied and have more components than ever before. Developers are often [...]
January 5, 2022
Comparing AMD EPYC Performance with Intel Xeon in GCP
Recently we were asked to check the performance of the new family of AMD EPYC processors when using MySQL in [...]
January 4, 2022
Percona Server for MySQL Encryption Options and Choices
Security will always be a main focal point of a company’s data. A common question I get from clients is, [...]
January 4, 2022
Taking a Look at BTRFS for MySQL
Following my post MySQL/ZFS Performance Update, a few people have suggested I should take a look at BTRFS (“butter-FS”, “b-tree [...]
December 31, 2021
Percona Support Team New Year Greetings!
In Percona Support we spend a few hours per week doing Labs: short collective projects, not directly related to the [...]
December 30, 2021
Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Test Drive Using VirtualBox and SSH Tunnels
Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM2) is the database monitoring suite assembled and developed by Percona. It is based on [...]
December 29, 2021
Q & A on Webinar “MySQL Performance for DevOps”
First I want to thank everyone who attended my November 16, 2021 webinar “MySQL Performance for DevOps“. Recording and slides [...]
December 27, 2021
Backup Performance Comparison: mysqldump vs MySQL Shell Utilities vs mydumper vs mysqlpump vs XtraBackup
In this blog post, we will compare the performance of performing a backup from a MySQL database using mysqldump, MySQL [...]
December 9, 2021
A Look Into Percona XtraDB Cluster Non-Blocking Operation for Online Schema Upgrade
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.25 (PXC) has introduced a new option to perform online schema modifications: NBO (Non-Blocking Operation). When using [...]
December 9, 2021
Testing Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator Locally with Kind
We have a quickstart guide for how to install Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator on minikube. Installing the minimal version [...]
December 3, 2021
MyDumper Github Repository Is Now an Organization
For a long time, MyDumper has been in Max Bubenick’s personal GitHub repository. Now, we decided to move to a [...]
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December 2, 2021
Q&A on the Webinar “Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for Dev[Op]s”
First, I want to thank everyone who attended my November 9, 2021 webinar “Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for Dev[Op]s“. [...]
December 1, 2021
PXC Scheduler Handler: The Missing Piece for Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster Puzzle
Working on a real case scenario in a five node Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), we were forced to use wsrep_sync_wait [...]
November 29, 2021
MyDumper 0.11.3 is Now Available
The new MyDumper 0.11.3 version, which includes many new features and bug fixes, is now available. You can download the [...]
November 24, 2021
Querying Archived RDS Data Directly From an S3 Bucket
A recommendation we often give to our customers is along the lines of “archive old data” to reduce your database [...]
November 22, 2021
Temporary Tables in MySQL – Never Ending Story?
If you ever had to deal with performance and/or disk space issues related to temporary tables, I bet you eventually [...]
November 9, 2021
What if … MySQL’s Repeatable Reads Cause You to Lose Money?
Well, let me say if that happens it’s because there is a logic mistake in your application. But you need [...]
October 25, 2021
Comparing Graviton (ARM) Performance to Intel and AMD for MySQL (Part 2)
Recently we published the first part of research comparing Graviton (ARM) with AMD and Intel CPU on AWS. In the [...]
October 15, 2021
Comparing Graviton (ARM) Performance to Intel and AMD for MySQL
Recently, AWS presented its own CPU on ARM architecture for server solutions. It was Graviton. As a result, they update [...]
October 14, 2021
Custom Percona Monitoring and Management Metrics in MySQL and PostgreSQL
A few weeks ago we did a live stream talking about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and showcased some of [...]