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January 6, 2021
Google Cloud Platform: MySQL at Scale with Reliable HA Webinar Q&A
Earlier in November, we had a chance to present the “Google Cloud Platform: MySQL at Scale with Reliable HA.” We [...]
December 28, 2020
Percona XtraBackup: Introducing Support For Storage Class in xbcloud
A lot of elements take part in a good backup strategy. Two of them are: Where to store your backups [...]
December 22, 2020
Redesign of –lock-ddl-per-table in Percona XtraBackup
MySQL 5.7, alongside other many improvements, brought bulk load for creating an index (WL#7277 to be specific), which made ADD [...]
December 21, 2020
Amazon RDS for MySQL 5.5 EOL Date is Approaching – Act Now!
As mentioned in the AWS discussion forum back in October, Amazon has started the end of life (EOL) process for [...]
December 16, 2020
MySQL Shell 8.0.22: Data Export/Import Utilities Tested with MySQL 8/5.7/5.6
MySQL Shell is an advanced client tool that has many features and is easy to use. The recent MySQL release [...]
December 7, 2020
Not Ready to Give Up MySQL 5.6? Get Post EOL Support from Percona!
As you may know, MySQL 5.6 will reach EOL (“End of Life”) in February 2021. This means in about two [...]
December 4, 2020
How to Configure MySQL SSL With Public Certificates
Getting MySQL working with self-signed SSL certificates is pretty simple. Having it working with a certificate signed by a trusted [...]
December 2, 2020
Enabling jemalloc on Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 Series
The benefits of jemalloc versus glibc memory allocator for use with MySQL have been widely discussed. With jemalloc (along with Transparent [...]
November 30, 2020
Support for Percona XtraDB Cluster in ProxySQL (Part Two)
How scheduler and script stand in supporting failover (Percona and Marco example) In part one of this series, I had [...]
November 30, 2020
Support for Percona XtraDB Cluster in ProxySQL (Part One)
How native ProxySQL stands in failover support (both v2.0.15 and v2.1.0) In recent times I have been designing several solutions [...]
November 23, 2020
Uncommon Sense MySQL – When EXPLAIN Can Trash Your Database
If I ask you if running EXPLAIN on the query can change your database, you will probably tell me NO; [...]
November 23, 2020
Recover Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes From Wrong MySQL Config
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster [...]
November 17, 2020
Wondering How to Run Percona XtraDB Cluster on Kubernetes? Try Our Operator!
Kubernetes has been a big trend for a while now, particularly well-suited for microservices. Running your main databases on Kubernetes [...]
November 13, 2020
Kubernetes Scaling Capabilities with Percona XtraDB Cluster
Our recent survey showed that many organizations saw unexpected growth around cloud and data. Unexpected bills can become a big [...]
November 9, 2020
Deep Dive Into PostgreSQL Indexes – Free Course at Percona University Online
Percona University Online has released its second free course, “A Deep Dive Into PostgreSQL Indexes” by Ibrar Ahmed, Senior Software [...]
November 6, 2020
Various Backup Compression Methods Using Mysqlpump
Mysqlpump is a client program that was released with MySQL 5.7.8 and is used to perform logical backups in a [...]
November 5, 2020
ChaosMesh to Create Chaos in Kubernetes
In my talk on Percona Live (download the presentation), I spoke about how we can use Percona Kubernetes Operators to [...]
November 5, 2020
Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Without Access to the Internet
Normally it is quite easy to deploy Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server as a Docker container as per the [...]
November 4, 2020
Running Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster with Kata Containers
Kata containers are containers that use hardware virtualization technologies for workload isolation almost without performance penalties. Top use cases are [...]
November 3, 2020
Adjusting MySQL 8.0 Memory Parameters
So you’ve just added some more memory to your MySQL server; now what? If you’ve been around the MySQL block [...]