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October 7, 2014
MySQL ring replication: Why it is a bad option
I’ve recently worked with customers using replication rings with 4+ servers; several servers accepting writes. The idea behind this design [...]
September 22, 2014
Should you migrate to Percona XtraDB Cluster?
Interest in Percona XtraDB Cluster / Galera has been high ever since we introduced the product in 2012. I typically [...]
September 11, 2014
OpenStack users shed light on Percona XtraDB Cluster deadlock issues
I was fortunate to attend an Ops discussion about databases at the OpenStack Summit Atlanta this past May as one [...]
September 8, 2014
How to calculate the correct size of Percona XtraDB Cluster’s gcache
When a write query is sent to
September 5, 2014
Using MySQL 5.6 Global Transaction IDs (GTIDs) in production: Q&A
Thank you to all of you who attended my webinar last week about Global Transaction IDs (GTIDs), which were introduced [...]
September 4, 2014
MySQL 101: Monitor Disk I/O with pt-diskstats
Here on the Percona Support team we often ask customers to retrieve disk stats to monitor disk IO and to [...]
September 3, 2014
Migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster 2014 edition: Sept. 10 MySQL webinar
Join me online next week (September 10 at 10 a.m. PDT) for my live webinar on Migrating to Percona XtraDB [...]
September 2, 2014
Using sysbench 0.5 for performing MySQL benchmarks
Given the recent excitement & interest around OpenStack I wanted to make sure I was ready to conduct appropriate evaluations [...]
August 29, 2014
Galera data on Percona Cloud Tools (and other MySQL monitoring tools)
I was talking with a Percona Support customer earlier this week who was looking for Galera data on Percona Cloud Tools. (Percona [...]
August 28, 2014
OpenStack Trove Day 2014 Recap: MySQL and DBaaS
I just returned from a week in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I was attending the OpenStack Trove Day and the Trove [...]
August 26, 2014
mysqld_multi: How to run multiple instances of MySQL
The need to have multiple instances of MySQL (the well-known mysqld process) running in the same server concurrently in a transparent [...]
August 22, 2014
When (and how) to move an InnoDB table outside the shared tablespace
In my last post, “
August 21, 2014
A closer look at the MySQL ibdata1 disk space issue and big tables
A recurring and very common customer issue seen here at the Percona Support team involves how to make the ibdata1 [...]
August 20, 2014
How to use MySQL Global Transaction IDs (GTIDs) in production
Reconfiguring replication has always been a challenge with MySQL. Each time the replication topology has to be changed, the process [...]
August 19, 2014
Measuring failover time for ScaleArc load balancer
ScaleArc hired Percona to benchmark failover times for the ScaleArc database traffic management software in different scenarios. We tested failover [...]
August 1, 2014
Paris OpenStack Summit Voting – Percona Submits 16 MySQL Talks
MySQL plays a critical role in OpenStack. It serves as the host database supporting most components such as Nova, Glance, [...]
July 28, 2014
What I learned while migrating a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS
Hi, I recently had the experience of assisting with a migration of a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS (Relational [...]
July 18, 2014
Systemtap solves phantom MySQLd SIGTERM / SIGKILL issue
The Percona Managed Services team recently faced a somewhat peculiar client issue. We’d receive pages about their MySQL service being unreachable. [...]
June 17, 2014
MySQL Backup Service from Percona
The Percona Backup Service managed service launched today. It ensures properly configured backups run successfully as scheduled on customer provided [...]
April 24, 2014
Encrypted and incremental MySQL backups with Percona XtraBackup
We’ve recently received a number of questions on how to implement incremental MySQL backups alongside encryption with Percona XtraBackup. Some [...]