by Dave Avery | Apr 5, 2016 | MySQL
Join us for our latest webinar on Thursday, April 7, at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) on Introduction to Troubleshooting Performance: What Affects Query Execution? MySQL installations experience a multitude of issues: server hangs, wrong data stored in the database, slow running...
by Emily Ikuta | Dec 30, 2015 | MySQL, Webinars
Too often developers and DBAs struggle to pinpoint the root cause of MySQL database performance issues, and then spend too much time in trying to fix them. Wouldn’t it be great to bypass wasted guesswork and get right to the issue? In our upcoming webinar Tired of...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Aug 21, 2015 | MongoDB
Finding and removing unused indexes is a pretty common technique to improve overall performance of relational databases. Less indexes means faster insert and updates but also less disk space used. The usual way to do it is to log all queries’ execution plans and...
by Ryan Huddleston | Mar 13, 2013 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
As part of Percona Remote DBA for MySQL service we recognize that reliable backups are one of the most important things we can bring to the table. In my experience handling emergencies, the single worst thing that can happen is finding out you don’t have backups...