by Dave Avery | Dec 16, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
We are excited to announce that the sneak peek schedule for the Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference is up! The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is April 24th – 27th, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention...
by Dave Avery | Dec 15, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
Welcome to a new series of blogs: Percona Live featured tutorial speakers! 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 database...
by Rick Golba | Dec 14, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the differences between row store and column store databases. Clients often ask us if they should or could be using columnar databases. For some applications, a columnar database is a great choice; for others, you should stick...
by Roman Vynar | Dec 12, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.7. The Percona Monitoring and Management Server (PMM) is distributed through Docker Hub, PMM Client – through tarball or system packages. The instructions for installing or upgrading PMM are...
by Roman Vynar | Dec 9, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.7. Changelog New Nagios script pmp-check-mongo.py for MongoDB. Added MySQL socket and flag options to Cacti PHP script. Added disk volume check on “Mounted on” in addition to...
by Dave Avery | Dec 6, 2016 | MariaDB, MySQL, Webinars
Please join Federico Razzoli, Consultant at Percona, on Thursday, December 8, 2016, at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET (UTC – 8) as he presents Virtual Columns in MySQL and MariaDB. MariaDB 5.2 and MySQL 5.7 introduced virtual columns, with different implementations.Their...
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 5, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Live
We are excited to announce that the tutorial schedule for the Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference is up! The Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference 2017 is April 24th – 27th, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara...
by Wagner Bianchi | Dec 1, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Services
This blog continues the ongoing series on daily operations and GTID replication and binary logs purge. In this blog, I’m going to investigate why the error below has been appearing in a special environment I’ve been working with on the last few days: MySQL...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 28, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server 5.7.16-10 on November 28, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.7.16, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.7.16-10 is the...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 28, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.6.34-79.1 on November 28, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.34, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.34-79.1 is the...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 23, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.53-38.4 on November 23, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.53, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.53-38.5 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server for MySQL is...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Nov 18, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.5.53-38.4 on November 18, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.53, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.53-38.4 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. Percona Server is open-source and free. You can...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 17, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Let us know what you think about Percona, and what we should be thinking about for the future. Over the last ten years, Percona has grown considerably. We’ve moved from being a strictly MySQL company, to a company that supports MongoDB and other open source...
by Jon Tobin | Nov 16, 2016 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL
This blog post reviews the appropriateness of Docker and other container solutions for your database environment. A few weeks back, I wrote a fairly high-level blog post about containers. It covered what you should consider when thinking about using Docker, rkt, LXC,...
by Alexey Zhebel | Nov 15, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.6 on November 15, 2016. PMM Server is distributed through Docker Hub PMM Client packages are available on the download page The instructions for installing or upgrading Percona Monitoring and...
by Ceri Williams | Nov 14, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Security
Using Vault with MySQL In my previous post I discussed using GPG to secure your database credentials. This relies on a local copy of your MySQL client config, but what if you want to keep the credentials stored safely along with other super secret information? Sure,...
by Barrett Chambers | Nov 14, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL
This blog post looks at MongoDB and MySQL, and covers high-level MongoDB strengths, weaknesses, features, and uses from the perspective of an SQL user. Delving into NoSQL coming from an exclusively SQL background can seem like a daunting task. I have worked with SQL...
by Tibor Korocz | Nov 11, 2016 | MySQL
by Wagner Bianchi | Nov 10, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Services
This post discusses ways of fixing broken GTID replication. This blog series is all about the daily stories we have in Managed Services, dealing with customers’ environments (mostly when we need to quickly restore a service level within the SLA time). One of the...
by Tibor Korocz | Nov 9, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, ProxySQL
In this blog post, I am going to show you how can you use Orchestrator and ProxySQL together. In my previous blog post, I showed how to use bash scripts and move virtual IPs with Orchestrator. As in that post, I assume you already have Orchestrator working. If not,...
