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December 1, 2016
GTID Replication and Binary Logs Purge
This blog continues the ongoing series on daily operations and GTID replication and binary logs purge. In this blog, I’m going [...]
November 10, 2016
Database Daily Ops Series: GTID Replication
This post discusses ways of fixing broken GTID replication. This blog series is all about the daily stories we have in [...]
July 20, 2016
The Value of Database Support
In this post, I’ll discuss how database support is good for your enterprise. Years ago when I worked for the [...]
April 16, 2016
The final three Database Performance Team characters are . . .
The last email introduced two members of the Percona Database Performance Team: The Maven and The Specialist. Now we’re ready to [...]
March 24, 2016
Want to be a superhero? Join the Database Performance Team!
Admit it, you’ve always wanted to fight danger, win battles and save the day! Who doesn’t? Do you want to be [...]
January 12, 2016
Play the Percona Powerball Pool!!
The Only Sure Thing is Percona Powerball Pool Everyone is talking about the upcoming Powerball lottery draw. 1.4 BILLION dollars!! And [...]
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 [...]
May 27, 2015
MySQL 5.7 key features
The other day I was discussing new features of MySQL 5.7 with a Percona Support customer. After that conversation, I [...]
May 15, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 2: Build a MySQL server – Git, Bazaar, Compiling & Build tools
Welcome to MySQL QA Episode 2: Build a MySQL Server – Git, Bazaar (bzr), Compiling, and Build Tools In this [...]
April 7, 2015
More on (transactional) MySQL metadata locks
Two years ago Ovais Tariq had explained in detail what kinds of problems existed before MySQL introduced metadata locks in [...]
April 6, 2015
The cost of not properly managing your databases
Every day hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted by allowing improperly tuned or misconfigured systems, misunderstood infrastructure, and inefficient [...]
April 2, 2015
The value of MySQL Support
Years ago when I worked for the MySQL Support organization at the original MySQL AB, we spoke about MySQL Support [...]
March 24, 2015
Calling all MySQL DBAs: How do you use Percona Toolkit?
Percona Toolkit is one of our most mature open source applications. Derived from Maatkit and Aspersa, Percona Toolkit has evolved [...]
March 17, 2015
MySQL QA Episode 1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun
MySQL QA Episode #1: Bash/GNU Tools & Linux Upskill & Scripting Fun This episode consists of 13 parts, and an [...]
March 17, 2015
Free MySQL QA & Bash/Linux Training Series
Welcome to the MySQL QA Training Series! If you have not read our introductory blog post on pquery yet, I’d [...]
March 16, 2015
Deep dive into MySQL’s innochecksum tool
One of our Percona Support customers recently reported that Percona XtraBackup failed with a page corruption error on an InnoDB [...]
February 24, 2015
Is MySQL’s innodb_file_per_table slowing you down?
MySQL’s innodb_file_per_table is a wonderful thing – most of the time. Having every table use its own .ibd file allows [...]
December 2, 2014
Tips from the trenches for over-extended MySQL DBAs
This post is a follow-up to my November 19 webinar, “Tips from the Trenches: A Guide to Preventing Downtime for [...]
November 18, 2014
Avoiding MySQL ALTER table downtime
MySQL table alterations can interrupt production traffic causing bad customer experience or in worst cases, loss of revenue. Not all [...]
October 8, 2014
MySQL Replication: ‘Got fatal error 1236’ causes and cures
MySQL replication is a core process for maintaining multiple copies of data – and replication is a very important aspect [...]