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...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 1, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.54-38.6 on February 1, 2017. Based on MySQL 5.5.54, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.54-38.6 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server for MySQL is...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 30, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, I’ll discuss MySQL sharding models, and how they apply to SaaS application environments. MySQL is one of the most popular database technologies used to build many modern SaaS applications, ranging from simple productivity tools to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 27, 2017 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Services, Percona Software, Webinars
This blog post is a summary of the webinar Percona Software News and Roadmap Update – Q1 2017 given by Peter Zaitsev on January 12, 2017. Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and talk with many of Percona’s customers. I love these meetings,...
by Marcelo Altmann | Jan 27, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In today’s blog, I will show an issue with seconds_behind_master that one of our clients faced when running slave_parallel_workers > 0. We found out that the reported seconds_behind_master from SHOW SLAVE STATUS was lying. To be more specific, I’m talking...
by Dave Avery | Jan 24, 2017 | MySQL, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Jon Tobin, Director of Solution Engineering at Percona, and Rob Masson, Solutions Architect Manager at ScaleArc, on Thursday, January 26, 2017, at 9:00 am PST / 12:00 pm EST (UTC-8) for their webinar “Overcoming the Challenges of...
by Barrett Chambers | Jan 23, 2017 | MySQL
This blog post contains step-by-step instructions for setting up alerting in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) using Grafana. As a Solutions Engineer at Percona, I get to speak with a lot of the early adopters of Percona’s new PMM software. One of the frequent...
by Evgeniy Patlan | Jan 20, 2017 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
In this blog, we’ll look at how to manually build Percona Server for MySQL RPM packages. Several customers and other people from the open source community have asked us how they could make their own Percona Server for MySQL RPM binaries from scratch. This...
by Marco Tusa | Jan 19, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, ProxySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to set up ProxySQL for high availability. During the last few months, we’ve had a lot of opportunities to present and discuss a very powerful tool that will become more and more used in the architectures supporting...
by Dave Avery | Jan 17, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist Colin Charles on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, at 7:00 am (PST) / 10:00 am (EST) (UTC-8) as he presents “Lessons from Database Failures.” MySQL failures at scale can teach a great deal. MySQL failures can lead to a...
by Dave Avery | Jan 16, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Live
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...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 13, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog, I’ll look at the impact of swapping on MySQL performance. It’s common sense that when you’re running MySQL (or really any other DBMS) you don’t want to see any I/O in your swap space. Scaling the cache size (using innodb_buffer_pool_size in...
