by Agustín | Jun 1, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source
In a previous post, Using DBdeployer to manage MySQL, Percona Server, and MariaDB sandboxes, we covered how we use DBdeployer within the Support Team to easily create MySQL environments for testing purposes. Here, I will expand on what Peter wrote in Installing MySQL...
by Bronwyn Campbell | May 29, 2020 | Percona Events, Percona Live
We were in the midst of planning for Percona Live Austin 2020. We had a new venue lined up, an awesome agenda, on-site planning meetings were complete, and lots of sponsors on-board — showing signs of the potential for a bigger and better conference than we’d...
by David Quilty | May 29, 2020 | MySQL, Webinars
Join Peter Zaitsev, CEO at Percona, as he discusses eBFT. eBPF is one of the most powerful instrumentation frameworks in modern Linux Kernel. In this presentation, we will cover eBPF basics as well as usage of Interactive eBPF tools, showing practical examples when...
by Daniil Bazhenov | May 28, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Open-source companies live by their community. Favorable buzz by community users is ultimately what’s made Percona software successful. Some users make further contributions in the form of expertise, source code, documentation, and more. As an open-source company in...
by Matthew Boehm | May 27, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
Here in Percona’s Training department, we like to think that we instruct our learners on the best practices for all things MySQL-related. In addition to performance tuning, query optimization, and replication configurations, another important topic is backups....
by David Quilty | May 26, 2020 | MySQL, Webinars
Join Alkin Tezusal, Percona Technical Expert, as he covers the past, present, and future of MySQL as an Open Source Database. During this webinar he will discuss: * Use cases of MySQL as well as edge cases of MySQL topologies using real-life examples and...
by Stephen Thorn | May 22, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Database backups are a fundamental requirement in almost every implementation, no matter the size of the company or the nature of the application. Taking a backup should be a simple task that can be automated to ensure it’s done consistently and on schedule....
by Matthew Boehm | May 21, 2020 | Database Trends, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Services
Percona Training Is Here for You! Percona’s Training and Education Department wants you! For the past three years, Percona has quietly been delivering world-class training all over the globe, to companies large and small. We are in full force and ready to spread...
by Roma Novikov | May 19, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
As we have just released the new Security Threat Tool (STT) as part of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.6, I wanted to give you a basic overview of this new feature. Its goal is to advise PMM users on common security-related database problems they might have...
by Terri Schlosser | May 19, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
If database security is a top concern and you are looking for ways to quickly find and remediate common data security risks, you should try the newly announced Percona Monitoring and Management 2.6. This includes a new Security Threat Tool which allows you to run...
by Marco Tusa | May 18, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona has enforced stronger security in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8, but this requires some attention during the rollout of the new server version, so let see the why and what. In PXC there are two different kinds of traffic: client-server exchange (ie:...
by Agustín | May 18, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
Two years ago, we showed how to use a different mount point on Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Docker deployments, in case you need to have data stored out of the default Docker paths. We have released PMM version 2 since, and the need for these steps is still...
by David Quilty | May 15, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
During this webinar, Tyler Duzan, Product Manager for MySQL and Cloud at Percona, will discuss Percona’s decision to delay Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 to ship it with Galera 4 instead of Galera 3, and why that matters. In addition, he’ll talk about the work...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 15, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 comes with an upgraded Galera 4.0 library, which provides a new feature – streaming replication. Let’s review what it is and when it might be helpful. Previous versions of Percona XtraDB Cluster with Galera 3.x had a limitation...
by Yves Trudeau | May 14, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this post, the third in a series explaining the internals of InnoDB flushing, we’ll focus on tuning. (Others in the series can be seen at InnoDB Flushing in Action for Percona Server for MySQL and Give Love to Your SSDs – Reduce innodb_io_capacity_max!)...
by Tibor Korocz | May 13, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software
I was testing the latest Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 (PXC) release which has the Galera 4 plugin, and I would like to share my experiences and thoughts on the Streaming Replication feature so far. What Is Streaming Replication, in One Sentence? In Galera 4, the large...
by David Ducos | May 13, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
pt-online-schema-change emulates the way that MySQL alters tables internally, but it works on a copy of the table you wish to alter. It executes INSERT statements to import the data, that runs in a single connection to fill the new table. In this repository, there is...
