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...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 15, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post is my overview of Group Replication technology. With Oracle clearly entering the “open source high availability solutions” arena with the release of their brand new Group Replication solution, I believe it is time to review the quality of the first GA...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 15, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll point to a new Docker image for Percona Server for MySQL Group Replication. Our most recent release of Percona Server for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.17) comes with Group Replication plugins. Unfortunately, since this technology...
by Dave Avery | Feb 14, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 will once again host crash courses on MySQL and MongoDB. Read below to get an outstanding discount on either the MySQL or MongoDB crash course (or both). The database community constantly tells us how hard it is to...
by Dave Avery | Feb 14, 2017 | Percona Software
Percona today announced a Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 solution bundle of updated products. This release enables any organization to create a robust, secure database environment that can be adapted to changing business requirements. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4,...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 8, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.6.35-80.0 on February 8, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.35, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.35-80.0 is the...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 7, 2017 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.0 Beta on February 7, 2017. This is the first beta in the PMM 1.1 series with a focus on providing alternative deployment options for PMM Server: OVA image for VirtualBox is available from the...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 6, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 3.0.0rc-2 with new MongoDB tools on February 6, 2017. This is a release candidate. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL and MongoDB server and system tasks...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 3, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.17-11 on February 3, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.7.17, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL...
by Dave Avery | Feb 3, 2017 | MySQL
Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured tutorial speakers blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the tutorial speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these tutorials can help you improve your...
