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 Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 26, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-15 on May 26, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository. Based...
by Marco Tusa | May 25, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL and mirroring go together. Overview Let me be clear: I love ProxySQL, and I think it is a great component for expanding architecture flexibility and high availability. But not all that shines is gold! In this post, I...
by Dave Avery | May 24, 2017 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
This blog post is a summary of the Percona Software and Roadmap Update – Q2 2017 webinar given by Peter Zaitsev on May 4, 2017. This webinar reflects changes and updates since the last update (Q1 2017). A full recording of this webinar, along with the...
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 Alexey Zhebel | May 19, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.3 on May 19, 2017. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL and MongoDB server and system tasks too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona...
by Dave Avery | May 16, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Live, Storage Engine
The slides and videos from the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 are available for viewing and download. The videos and slides cover the keynotes, breakout sessions and MySQL and MongoDB 101 sessions. To view slides, go to the Percona Live agenda, and...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 12, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-14 on May 12, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository. Based...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 12, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.36-82.0 on May 12, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository. Based on...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | May 10, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.55-38.8 on May 10, 2017. Based on MySQL 5.5.55, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.55-38.8 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server for MySQL is...
by Alexander Rubin | May 8, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, I’ll review how a hung MySQL transaction can cause the InnoDB history length to grow and negatively affect MySQL performance. Recently I was helping a customer discover why SELECT queries were running slower and slower until the server restarts...
by Michael Coburn | May 4, 2017 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
I heard a frequent question at last week’s Percona Live conference regarding Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM): How much disk space should I allocate for PMM Server? First, let’s review the three components of Percona Monitoring and Management that...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 2, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
In 2013 we started Percona University, which consists of technology discussion events held in different cities around the world. The next installments of Percona University in Europe are next week when I fly there for Percona University Berlin (May 9) and Percona...
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 27, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Welcome to the third (and final) day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the third (and final) set of Percona Live keynotes! The enthusiasm hasn’t waned here at Percona Live, and we had a full house on Thursday morning! Day three of the...
by Dave Avery | Apr 26, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Live
Every day at Percona Live 2017 brings something new and unusual – and on this particular day, we found out that MySQL makes toast. A lot of people think that with MySQL and open source software, you can do anything. While many might view this metaphorically,...
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 26, 2017 | Cloud, Percona Live
Percona Live 2017 is rolling along, and now that everybody got through lunch we’re all recharged and ready for the afternoon. Let’s start it out with Amazon Aurora. Once of the best-attended sessions was Sailesh Krishnamurthy’s (Senior Engineering...
by Dave Avery | Apr 26, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to the second day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the second set of Percona Live keynotes! It’s a bit rainy outside today, but that isn’t bothering the Percona Live attendees (we’re all indoors learning about new...
