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November 2, 2015
A first look at RDS Aurora
Recently, I happened to have an onsite engagement and the goal of the engagement was to move a database service [...]
October 29, 2015
MySQL and Trojan.Chikdos.A
Symantec published a blog post yesterday regarding MySQL and the Trojan.Chikdos.A as can be seen here The Symantec post gives [...]
October 29, 2015
MySQL 5.7 first impressions on group-replication
During the last few weeks I’ve been testing and playing a bit with the new group-replication plugin available for MySQL [...]
October 26, 2015
State of Percona Server 5.6, MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.7 RC
This week Oracle will release MySQL 5.7 GA, so it’s a perfect time to do a quick review of the [...]
October 23, 2015
Internet of Things, Messaging and MySQL
Personal Projects with the Internet of Things So you want to do a personal project with the Internet of Things (maybe a home automation [...]
October 22, 2015
Percona XtraBackup 2.3.2 GA is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.2 GA on October 22nd, 2015. Downloads are available from [...]
October 22, 2015
Percona XtraBackup 2.2.13 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.13 on October 22nd, 2015. Downloads are available from our [...]
October 20, 2015
Slow query graphs using Performance Schema and Graphite
I love graphs. They just make things easier when it comes to finding patterns. I also love visibility. Having the [...]
October 20, 2015
Percona Live 2016 Call for Papers Open! Introducing: Community Voting
The Call for Papers for the fifth annual Percona Live Data Performance Conference and Expo (formerly MySQL Conference and Expo) taking place April [...]
October 15, 2015
Proxy Protocol and Percona XtraDB Cluster: A Quick Guide
On September 21st, we released Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.25. This is the first PXC release supporting proxy-protocol that has been [...]
October 15, 2015
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.26-25.12 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on October 15th 2015. Binaries are available [...]
October 9, 2015
Online DDL and Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
I presented a talk at Percona Live Amsterdam a few weeks ago (simple recipes for your Galera cluster), and one [...]
October 9, 2015
When mysqld kills mysqld
The other day a colleague and friend of mine, Peter Boros, had a case where one of our clients had [...]
October 7, 2015
Apache Spark and MySQL for Data Analysis
What is Apache Spark? Apache Spark is a cluster computing framework, similar to Apache Hadoop. Wikipedia has a great description [...]
October 1, 2015
Capture database traffic using the Performance Schema
Capturing data is a critical part of performing a query analysis, or even just to have an idea of what’s going [...]
September 21, 2015
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.25-25.12 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on September 21st 2015. Binaries are available [...]
September 21, 2015
Containing your logical backups: mydumper in docker
Even with software like Percona Xtrabackup, logical backups remain an important component of a thorough backup strategy. To gather a logical [...]
September 18, 2015
VividCortex Agent Benchmark
Intro The purpose of this project was to measure the potential overhead of VividCortex Agent, which is used by VividCortex.com [...]
September 17, 2015
Clarification on “Call me Maybe: MariaDB Galera Cluster”
Recently Aphyr (Kyle Kingsbury) published https://aphyr.com/posts/327-call-me-maybe-mariadb-galera-cluster The article is technically valid, I am not going to dispute a conclusion Aphyr [...]
September 16, 2015
Webinar: Introduction to MySQL SYS Schema follow up questions
Thanks to all who attended my webinar Introduction to MySQL SYS Schema. This blog is for me to address the [...]