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December 18, 2014
Making HAProxy 1.5 replication lag aware in MySQL
HAProxy is frequently used as a software load balancer in the MySQL world. Peter Boros, in a past post, explained how [...]
December 10, 2014
Percona XtraBackup 2.2.7 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.7 on December 10, 2014. Downloads are available from our [...]
December 5, 2014
Streamlined Percona XtraDB Cluster (or anything) testing with Consul and Vagrant
Introducing Consul I’m always interested in what Mitchell Hashimoto and Hashicorp are up to, I typically find their projects valuable. [...]
December 3, 2014
Auto-bootstrapping an all-down cluster with Percona XtraDB Cluster
One new feature in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in recent releases was the inclusion of the ability for an existing cluster [...]
December 1, 2014
Faster restarts for MySQL and Percona Server 5.6.21+
By default in MySQL 5.6, each time MySQL is started (regular start or crash recovery), it iterates through all the [...]
November 25, 2014
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.21-25.8 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on Novmeber 25th 2014. Binaries are available [...]
November 24, 2014
Percona Server 5.6.21-70.1 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.21-70.1 on November 24, 2014. Download the latest version from the [...]
November 21, 2014
Google Compute Engine adds Percona XtraDB Cluster to click-to-deploy process
I’m happy to announce that Google has added Click-to-deploy functionality for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) on Google Cloud Compute nodes. [...]
November 19, 2014
How a set of queries can be killed in MySQL using Percona Toolkit’s pt-kill
You might have encountered situations where you had to kill some specific select queries that were running for long periods [...]
November 17, 2014
Percona Toolkit 2.2.12 is now available
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.12. Released on November 14, Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line [...]
November 14, 2014
RDS for Aurora unveiled at AWS re:Invent
One of the big announcements at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2014 conference this week was the unveiling of Aurora. The [...]
November 14, 2014
Q&A: Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA solution for OpenStack
Thanks to all who attended my Nov. 12 webinar titled, “Percona XtraDB Cluster as a MySQL HA Solution for OpenStack.” [...]
November 12, 2014
Log rotate and the (deleted) MySQL log file mystery
Did your logging stop working after you set up logrotate? Then this post might be for you. Some time ago, [...]
November 6, 2014
OpenStack MySQL HA Solution = Percona XtraDB Cluster: Webinar
MySQL is the most popular and widely used open source database on the planet. OpenStack is fast evolving as the [...]
November 4, 2014
Data inconsistencies on MySQL replicas: Beyond pt-table-checksum
Percona Toolkit’s pt-table-checksum is a great tool to find data inconsistencies between a MySQL master and its replicas. However it [...]
November 3, 2014
Percona XtraBackup 2.2.6 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.6 on November 3, 2014. Downloads are available from our [...]
November 3, 2014
Percona Server 5.6.21-70.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.21-70.0 on October 30, 2014. Download the latest version from the [...]
November 1, 2014
Backup and restore of MySQL to OpenStack Swift
MySQL database usage is popular in OpenStack. Core OpenStack services for Compute (Nova), Storage (Cinder), Neutron (Networking), Image (Glance) and [...]
October 31, 2014
Get a handle on your HA at Percona Live London 2014
If you’re following this blog, it’s quite likely you’re already aware of the Percona Live London 2014 conference coming up in just [...]
October 28, 2014
How to deal with MySQL deadlocks
A deadlock in MySQL happens when two or more transactions mutually hold and request for locks, creating a cycle of [...]