In this post I’ll answer questions I received in my Wednesday, July 19, 2017, webinar Learning MySQL 5.7! First, thank you all who attended the webinar. The link to the slides and the webinar recording can be found here. I received a number of interesting questions in the webinar that I’ve followed up with below. […]
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Percona is glad to announce the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 on July 28, 2017 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.7.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how to deploy ProxySQL. ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL and its forks (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. It was created for DBAs by René Cannaò, as a means of solving […]
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Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.0 on July 14, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. Changes in PMM Server PMM Server 1.2.0 introduced the following changes: Updated Components Consul 0.8.5 Grafana 4.3.2 Orchestrator 2.1.5 Prometheus 1.7.1 New Features PMM-737: New graphs in System Overview dashboard: Memory Advanced Details Saturation Metrics PMM-1090: Added ESXi support […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how to set up Percona PAM with Active Directory for external authentication. In my previous article on Percona PAM, I demonstrated how to use Samba as a domain, and how easy it is to create domain users and groups via the samba-tool. Then we configured nss-pam-ldapd and nscd […]
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how using thread_statistics can cause high memory usage. I was recently working on a high memory usage issue for one of our clients, and made some interesting discoveries: high memory usage with no bounds. It was really tricky to diagnose. Below, I am going to show you how to […]
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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 on MySQL 5.7.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL […]
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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 presentation slide deck, can be found here. Percona Software Below are the […]
Read MorePercona 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 on MySQL 5.7.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL […]
Read MorePercona 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 MySQL 5.6.36, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.36-82.0 […]
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