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September 16, 2024
Introducing RHEL9-Certified Builds for Percona MySQL: Ensure Maximum Compatibility and Compliance
Historically, Percona has been providing our customers with enterprise-grade solutions for MySQL that meet the highest standards of compatibility and [...]
September 13, 2024
All UUID Functions in Percona Server for MySQL: RFC 9562 Implemented
The release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.0 includes the new UUID_VX component, which implements UUID versions 1, 3, 4, 5, [...]
September 12, 2024
Simplify User Management with Percona Operator for MongoDB
Managing database users within complex CICD pipelines and GitOps workflows has long been a challenge for MongoDB deployments. With Percona [...]
September 4, 2024
Percona In-Product Telemetry: Updates, Findings, and News
This article is, in fact, two topics merged into one publication. Both are related to anonymous statistical data collection within [...]
August 27, 2024
Important Notice: Update Process for Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38 and Earlier
We’ve received numerous reports about issues occurring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) when updating to the latest version (currently [...]
August 26, 2024
Percona Server for MySQL Performance Improvements – August 2024
At Percona, we have always prioritized database performance as a critical factor in selecting database technologies. Recently, we have observed [...]
August 20, 2024
How to Run Percona Toolkit in Kubernetes
Percona Operator for MySQL, based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), provides configuration to expose the ProxySQL, HAProxy, and the PXC [...]
August 15, 2024
The Making of an Open Source PostgreSQL TDE Extension
When using a tool for a while, one often becomes patriotic towards it. With your investment, such as your work, [...]
August 14, 2024
Effective Strategies for Recovering MySQL Group Replication From Failures
Group replication is a fault-tolerant/highly available replication topology that ensures if the primary node goes down, one of the other [...]
August 9, 2024
Improve the Security of a Percona Server for MongoDB Deployment with KMIP Key State Polling
Data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption or TDE) is a necessary mechanism for ensuring the security of a [...]
August 7, 2024
Open Source AI Database Agent Part 2: OSADA
In the first part of this series, we built a basic AI-powered database agent. Now, it’s time to make a [...]
August 5, 2024
Open Source AI Database Agent Part 1: Introduction
Generative AI is top of mind for many engineers. The questions of how it can be applied to solve business [...]
August 5, 2024
How to Upgrade MongoDB Using Backups Through Many Major Versions
Companies use specific database versions because they’re proven performers or because it’s hard to keep up with frequent releases. But [...]
August 2, 2024
Update Your Percona Release Repository (Or Start Using It!)
We published a blog a few months back about incorporating telemetry into our core database products. My colleague, Bartek, did [...]
July 25, 2024
Severe Instability of MySQL 8.0.38, 8.4.1 and 9.0 Resolved in Upcoming Releases
A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Marco Tusa published an important announcement titled “Do Not Upgrade to Any Version [...]
July 19, 2024
How to Monitor Valkey/Redis with Percona Monitoring and Management
In this blog post, we will show you how to add external exporters to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and [...]
July 17, 2024
Using Compact in Percona Server for MongoDB From Version 4.4+
In the previously posted blog, Compaction in Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB), we discussed how compact works before version 4.4. [...]
July 17, 2024
An Enterprise-Grade MongoDB Alternative Without Licensing or Lock-in
MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its [...]
July 16, 2024
No MySQL 9.x Innovation Releases from Percona
On July 1st, 2024, Oracle launched MySQL 9.0.0, the first release in the 9.x series. This release and the following [...]
July 15, 2024
Using pt-online-schema-change for Purging Rows and Reclaiming Disk Space in a Single Operation
You probably missed the news, but… PT-1751: Adds –where param to pt-online-schema-change This brings the possibility to perform what I [...]