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 Dave Avery | Mar 29, 2017 | MySQL, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Principal Technical Services Engineer Sveta Smirnova, and Senior Software Engineer George Lorch, MariaDB’s Query Optimizer Developer Sergei Petrunia and Facebook’s Database Engineer Yoshinori Matsunobu as they present MyRocks...
by Alexey Zhebel | Mar 27, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 3.0.2 on March 27, 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....
by Dave Avery | Mar 24, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 in Santa Clara, California is just around the corner: April 24-27, 2017. We’re busy getting things ready to make sure everybody gets the most out of their time there. As part of that, we have some news and a couple...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 24, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.17-12 on March 24, 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 | Mar 24, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.6.35-81.0 on March 24, 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 MySQL...
by Dave Avery | Mar 23, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured session blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the session speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these sessions can help you improve your database...
by Dave Avery | Mar 13, 2017 | Cloud, Webinars
Join Percona’s Solutions Engineer Dimitri Vanoverbeke on Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. PDT / 10:00 a.m. EDT (UTC-7) for a webinar on Moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Register Now This webinar covers the many challenges faced when migrating applications...
by Sveta Smirnova | Mar 10, 2017 | MySQL, Security, Webinars
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Troubleshooting MySQL Access Privileges Issues webinar. First, I want to thank everybody for attending the February 23 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list...
by Manjot Singh | Mar 6, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MySQL, Security
In this blog post, we’ll look at how “operator error” can cause serious problems (like the one we saw last week with AWS), and how to avoid them in MySQL using --i-am-a-dummy. Recently, AWS had some serious downtime in their East region, which they...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Feb 28, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, I hope to cover some areas to watch with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) when running MMAPv1. The graph examples from this article are from the...
by David Busby | Feb 27, 2017 | MySQL, Security
This blog post examines the recent MySQL® ransomware attacks, and what open source database security best practices could have prevented them. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that there has been an uptick in ransomware for MongoDB and...
by Jon Tobin | Feb 24, 2017 | Monitoring, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. This post is meant to walk a prospective user through the benefits of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), how it’s architected and the simple install process. By the end...
by Dave Avery | Feb 22, 2017 | MySQL, Security, Webinars
Please join Sveta Smirnova, Percona’s Principal Technical Services Engineer, as she presents Troubleshooting MySQL Access Privileges Issues on February 23, 2017 at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Do you have registered users who can’t connect to the MySQL...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Feb 22, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In mid-2016, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) added support for RocksDB with MongoDB, also known as “MongoRocks.” In this blog, we will go over the Percona...
by Barrett Chambers | Feb 21, 2017 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. The purpose of this blog post is to demonstrate current best-practices for an in-place Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) upgrade. Following this method allows you to...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 3.0.1 on February 20, 2017. This is the first general availability (GA) release in the 3.0 series with a focus on padding MongoDB tools: pt-mongodb-summary pt-mongodb-query-digest Downloads are available from...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.1 on February 20, 2017. This is the first general availability (GA) release in the PMM 1.1 series with a focus on providing alternative deployment options for PMM Server: OVA image for VirtualBox...
by Sveta Smirnova | Feb 16, 2017 | MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at a workaround for MySQL bug 72804. Recently I worked on a ticket where a customer performed a point-in-time recovery PITR using a large set of binary logs. Normally we handle this by applying the last backup, then re-applying all...
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...
