by Emily Ikuta | Jun 26, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents MariaDB Server 10.2: The Complete Guide on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7). Register Now The new MariaDB Server 10.2 release is out. It has some interesting new features, but...
by Alexey Zhebel | Jun 21, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.5 on June 21, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. Changes in PMM Server PMM-667: Fixed the Latency graph in the ProxySQL Overview dashboard to plot microsecond values...
by Colin Charles | Jun 19, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL
This blog post looks at the recent MariaDB Server 10.2 GA release. Congratulations to the MariaDB Foundation for releasing a generally available (GA) stable version of MariaDB Server 10.2! We’ll definitely spend the next few weeks talking about MariaDB Server...
by Alexey Zhebel | May 29, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.4 on May 29, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. This release includes experimental support for MongoDB in Query Analytics, including updated QAN interface. Query...
by Agustín | May 22, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, we’ll look at ICP counters in the information_schema.INNODB_METRICS. This is part two of the Index Condition Pushdown (ICP) counters blog post series. As mentioned in the previous post, in this blog we will look at how to check on ICP counters on...
by Agustín | May 9, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this post we’ll see how MariaDB’s Handler_icp_% counters status counters (Handler_icp_attempts and Handler_icp_matches) measure ICP-related work done by the server and storage engine layers, and how to see if our queries are getting any gains by using...
by Dave Avery | Apr 28, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Storage Engine
From everyone at Percona and Percona Live 2017, we’d like to send a big thank you to all our sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees at this year’s conference. This year’s conference was an outstanding success! The event brought the open source database community...
by Dave Avery | Apr 26, 2017 | Cloud, MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Percona Live 2017 is done for Wednesday, but there was still time to get in one more talk before tonight’s Community Networking Reception – and the last one of the evening was about Amazon RDS. Darin Briskman, Lead Developer Outreach & Technical Evangelist...
by Dave Avery | Apr 26, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
The afternoon at Percona Live 2017 is slipping by quickly, and people are still actively looking for sessions to attend – like the session I just sat in on histograms in MySQL and MariaDB. Histograms are a type of column statistic that provides more detailed...
by Dave Avery | Apr 25, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the first set of Percona Live keynotes! It’s a beautiful day in Santa Clara, but we don’t know because we’re inside the Hyatt Regency Convention Center listening...
by Dave Avery | Apr 25, 2017 | Benchmarks, Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Storage Engine
Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference: Percona Live 2017 tutorials day! While technically the first day of the conference, this day focused on provided hands-on tutorials for people interested in learning directly how to use open...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 18, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Live
In this blog post, I’ll discuss some of my thoughts about the future of MariaDB after attending the M17 Conference. Let me start with full disclosure: I’m the CEO of Percona, and we compete with the MariaDB Corporation in providing Support for MariaDB and other...
by Colin Charles | Apr 12, 2017 | MariaDB, Percona Live
At Percona, we support MariaDB Server (in addition to MySQL, Percona Server for MySQL, MongoDB and Percona Server for MongoDB, of course!), and that is reflected in the good, high-quality technical content about MariaDB Server at the Percona Live Open Source Database...
by Dave Avery | Apr 4, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Live, Webinars
Please join Percona’s CEO and Founder, Peter Zaitsev on April 6th, 2017 at 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT (UTC-7) as he presents Best Practices Migrating to Open Source Databases. Register Now This is a high-level webinar that covers the history of enterprise open source...
by Michael Coburn | Apr 3, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
In honor of the upcoming MariaDB M17 conference in New York City on April 11-12, we have enhanced Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Metrics Monitor with a new MariaDB Dashboard and multiple new graphs! The Percona Monitoring and Management MariaDB Dashboard...
by Federico Razzoli | Mar 2, 2017 | MariaDB, MySQL
The MariaDB subquery cache feature added in MariaDB 5.3 is not widely known. Let’s see what it is and how it works. What is a subquery cache? The MariaDB subquery cache optimizes the execution of correlated subqueries. Correlated subqueries refer to a value from...
by Dave Avery | Feb 16, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
UPDATE: Sveta Smirnova will be speaking at M17! Her talk is titled Lessons Learned: Troubleshooting Replication. It covers the similarities and differences between MySQL and MariaDB replication, and how to make the correct configuration choices to avoid problems. In...
by Rick Golba | Jan 30, 2017 | MySQL
Last month, MariaDB officially released MariaDB ColumnStore, their column store engine for MySQL. This post discusses what it is (and isn’t), why it matters and how you can approach a test of it. What is ColumnStore? ColumnStore is a storage engine that turns...
by Dave Avery | Dec 6, 2016 | MariaDB, MySQL, Webinars
Please join Federico Razzoli, Consultant at Percona, on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET (UTC – 8) as he presents Virtual Columns in MySQL and MariaDB. MariaDB 5.2 and MySQL 5.7 introduced virtual columns, with different implementations.Their...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 29, 2016 | MySQL
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.5 on November 29th, 2016. You can download it from our download site and from apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies...
