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March 31, 2014
ScaleArc: Benchmarking with sysbench
ScaleArc recently hired Percona to perform various tests on its database traffic management product. This post is the outcome of [...]
March 12, 2014
Monitoring MySQL with MONyog
Monitoring MySQL and effectively managing it can be challenging. Identifying issues before they grow into performance problems that impact end [...]
March 10, 2014
New mydumper 0.6.1 release offers performance and usability features
One of the tasks within Percona Remote DBA is to ensure we have reliable backups with minimal impact. To accomplish [...]
February 26, 2014
ClusterControl: Percona XtraDB Cluster Monitoring
First of all we would like to thank all of you who attended the Feb. 19 MySQL webinar, “Performance Monitoring [...]
February 26, 2014
How to monitor ALTER TABLE progress in MySQL
While working on a recent support issue as a Percona Support Engineer, I got one question from a customer asking how [...]
February 4, 2014
ClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster Improves Management and Monitoring
ClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster is now available in three different versions thanks to our partnership with Severalnines. ClusterControl will [...]
January 27, 2014
Looking to upgrade to MySQL 5.6? Check out my webinar on Jan 29!
We are nearing the one-year anniversary since MySQL 5.6 went GA – which is typically a good time even for [...]
January 24, 2014
MySQL server memory usage troubleshooting tips
There are many blog posts already written on topics related to “MySQL server memory usage,” but nevertheless there are some [...]
January 21, 2014
Beware of MySQL 5.6 Server UUID when Cloning Slaves
The other day I was working on an issue where one of the slaves was showing unexpected lag. Interestingly with [...]
January 6, 2014
The ARCHIVE Storage Engine – does it do what you expect?
Sometimes there is a need for keeping large amounts of old, rarely used data without investing too much on expensive [...]
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December 30, 2013
[ERROR] mysqld: Sort aborted: Server shutdown in progress
Recently, one of our support customers faced this: “[ERROR] mysqld: Sort aborted: Server shutdown in progress.” At first it would [...]
December 13, 2013
Seconds_Behind_Master fluctuating wildly? Check for events caught in a loop
Recently I was working with a customer where we noticed that Seconds_Behind_Master fluctuating from an expected value of 0 seconds [...]
December 12, 2013
One more InnoDB gap lock to avoid
While troubleshooting deadlocks for a customer, I came around an interesting situation involving InnoDB gap locks. For a non-INSERT write [...]
November 28, 2013
MySQL Error: Too many connections
Editor’s Note: Follow up to this post here MySQL 5.7 Performance Tuning After Installation. We have always received quite a [...]
November 27, 2013
Percona XtraBackup – A workaround to the failed assertion bug
I recently conducted a test backup of my “master-slave” setup in my VirtualBox as I was migrating from Percona XtraBackup [...]
October 14, 2013
Innotop: A real-time, advanced investigation tool for MySQL
GUI monitoring tools for MySQL are not always suitable for all our needs or situations. Most of them are designed [...]
August 20, 2013
Why is the ibdata1 file continuously growing in MySQL?
We often receive this question about the ibdata1 file in MySQL at Percona Support. The panic starts when the monitoring [...]
August 5, 2013
John Cesario of Go Daddy on Percona MySQL Training
Senior MySQL DBA John Cesario of Go Daddy spoke at Percona Live in April and shared his views on Percona [...]
August 1, 2013
Percona celebrates its 7th anniversary by giving to open source ecosystem
Today we’re celebrating Percona’s 7th anniversary. A lot has changed in these past 7 years – we have grown from a [...]
June 12, 2013
Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!
We’re less than a week away from Percona MySQL University at Portland, Oregon next Monday, June 17. The latest in [...]