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December 19, 2019
Grafana Plugins and Percona Monitoring and Management
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is built upon the shoulder of giants like Prometheus and Grafana. And speaking of Grafana, [...]
December 19, 2019
The Benefits of Amazon RDS for MySQL
As the world’s most popular open-source database, MySQL has been around the block more than a few times. Traditionally installed [...]
December 19, 2019
Q & A on Webinar “Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps”
First I want to thank everyone who attended my December 5, 2019 webinar “Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps“. [...]
December 18, 2019
Give Love to Your SSDs – Reduce innodb_io_capacity_max!
The innodb_io_capacity and innodb_io_capacity_max are often misunderstood InnoDB parameters. As consultants, we see, at least every month, people setting this [...]
December 18, 2019
Webinar 12/20: Pros and Cons of PCI/DSS Certification with MySQL
This talk uncovers which tools/plugins/settings you need to use to comply with PCI/DSS when using MySQL. Gain a solid grasp [...]
December 18, 2019
The Shared Responsibility Model of Security in the Cloud
When we think about the cloud, often we consider many of the benefits: scalability, elasticity, agility, and flexible pricing. As [...]
December 17, 2019
Webinar 12/19: Top 3 Features of MySQL
MySQL has been ranked as the second most popular database since 2012 according to DB-Engines. Three features help it retain [...]
December 9, 2019
MySQL Encryption: Talking About Keyrings
It has been possible to enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in Percona Server for MySQL/MySQL for a while now, but [...]
December 3, 2019
Percona Live 2020: Call For Papers
The Call For Papers (CFP) for Percona Live 2020 is now open! DEADLINE EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY, January 22. Percona Live [...]
December 3, 2019
Webinar 12/5: Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps
MySQL does its best to return requested bytes as fast as possible. However, it needs human help to identify what [...]
November 26, 2019
Comparing S3 Streaming Tools with Percona XtraBackup
Making backups over the network can be done in two ways: either save on disk and transfer or just transfer [...]
November 22, 2019
MySQL UUIDs – Bad For Performance
If you do a quick web search about UUIDs and MySQL, you’ll get a fair number of results. Here are [...]
November 22, 2019
Tips for Designing Grafana Dashboards
As Grafana powers our star product – Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – we have developed a lot of experience creating [...]
November 20, 2019
Profiling Software Using perf and Flame Graphs
In this blog post, we will see how to use perf (a.k.a.: perf_events) together with Flame Graphs. They are used [...]
November 19, 2019
Installing MySQL with Docker
I often need to install a certain version of MySQL, MariaDB, or Percona Server for MySQL to run some experiments, [...]
November 12, 2019
Watch Out for Disk I/O Performance Issues when Running EXT4
Recently, at Percona Live Europe 2019, Dimitri Kravchuk from Oracle mentioned that he observed some unclear drop in performance for [...]
November 4, 2019
Choose Your EC2 Instance Type Wisely on AWS
Recently I was doing some small testing by using EC2 instances on AWS and I noticed the execution time and [...]
November 1, 2019
Use MySQL Without a Password (and Still be Secure)
Some say that the best password is the one you don’t have to remember. That’s possible with MySQL, thanks to [...]
October 30, 2019
Understanding Hash Joins in MySQL 8
In MySQL 8.0.18 there is a new feature called how it works under the hood. The high-level basics are the [...]
October 29, 2019
Column Histograms on Percona Server and MySQL 8.0
From time to time you may have experienced that MySQL was not able to find the best execution plan for [...]