by Dave Avery | Feb 2, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is calling on you! Vote for Percona for Database of the Year in LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards 2016. Help Percona get recognized as one of the best database options for data performance. Percona provides free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source...
by Daniel Kowalewski | Oct 11, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog post, I’ll look at how to use the loose_ option prefix in my.cnf in MySQL. mysqld throws errors at startup – and refuses to start up – if a non-existent options are defined in the my.cnf file. For example: 2016-10-05 15:56:07 23864 [ERROR]...
by Dave Avery | Sep 26, 2016 | Webinars
Please join Percona founder and CEO Peter Zaitsev for a webinar Wednesday, September 28 at 11 am PDT (UTC-7) where he’ll discuss Percona Software News and Roadmap Update – Q3 2016. Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev discuss what’s new in Percona...
by David Busby | Sep 12, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events
This blog is an announcement for a Percona Server update with regards to CVE-2016-6662. We have added a fix for CVE-2016-6662 in the following releases: Percona Server 5.5.51-38.1 Percona Server 5.5.51-38.2 Percona Server 5.6.32-78.0 Percona Server 5.6.32-78.1 Percona...
by George O. Lorch III | Aug 17, 2016 | MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss how we’ve improved TokuDB and PerconaFT fragmented data file performance. Through our internal benchmarking and some user reports, we have found that with long term heavy write use TokuDB/PerconaFT performance can degrade...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 26, 2016 | Benchmarks, MySQL
This blog post will detail the results of Samsung storage in tpcc-mysql benchmark using Percona Server. I had an opportunity to test different Samsung storage devices under tpcc-mysql benchmark powered by Percona Server 5.7. You can find a summary with details...
by Alexey Stroganov | Oct 26, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
This week Oracle will release MySQL 5.7 GA, so it’s a perfect time to do a quick review of the current state of Percona Server 5.6.26, MySQL 5.6.26 and MySQL-5.7.8 RC. We used two boxes from our benchmark lab for this: – Box 1: 16 Cores+HT (32 virt...
by Andrew Moore | Sep 10, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Auditing your database means tracking access and changes to your data and db objects. The Audit Log Plugin has been shipped with Percona Server since 5.5.37/5.6.17, for a little over 12 months. Prior to the Audit Log Plugin, you had to work in darker ways to achieve...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jul 24, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
Previously I tested Tokutek’s Fractal Trees (TokuMX & TokuMXse) as MongoDB storage engines – today let’s look into the MySQL area. I am going to use modified LinkBench in a heavy IO-load. I compared InnoDB without compression, InnoDB with 8k...
by Stephane Combaudon | Jul 22, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
I recently worked with a customer who had a weird issue: when their MySQL server was started (Percona Server 5.5), if they try to run service mysql start a second time, the init script was not able to detect that an instance was already running. As a result, it tried...
by Kortney Runyan | Jun 10, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
Percona Live is moving from London to Amsterdam this year and the event is also expanding to three full days. Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23, will be at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre. The call for speakers and Super Saver registration are now...
by Jervin Real | Apr 16, 2015 | MySQL
When optimizing queries and investigating performance issues, MySQL comes with built in support for profiling queries aka SET profiling = 1; . This is already awesome and simple to use, but why the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA alternative? Because profiling will be removed soon...
by Daniel Nichter | Mar 12, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
The MySQL Performance Schema exposes so much data that it’s not trivial to learn, configure, and use. With recently released Percona Agent 1.0.11 you can get query metrics – like min, max, and average query execution time – with a few clicks: Click...
by Muhammad Irfan | Feb 27, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
DBAs often encounter situations where they need to kill queries to ensure there are no long-running queries on a MySQL server that would impact performance. Long-running queries can be the result of many factors. Fortunately, Percona Server contains some handy tools...
by Stephane Combaudon | Feb 10, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Global Transaction IDs (GTIDs) are one of my favorite features of MySQL 5.6. The main limitation is that you must stop all the servers at the same time to allow GTID-replication. Not everyone can afford to take a downtime so this requirement has been a showstopper for...
by David Busby | Jan 29, 2015 | MySQL, Security
Cloud security company Qualys announced Tuesday the issues prevalent in glibc since version 2.2 introduced in 2000-11-10 (the complete Qualys announcement may be viewed here). The vulnerability, CVE-2015-0235, has been dubbed “GHOST.” As the announcement...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 12, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0 on January 12, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.6.22, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server...
by Arunjith Aravindan | Jan 2, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
The MySQL query cache is one of the prominent features in MySQL and a vital part of query optimization. It is important to know how the MySQL query cache works, as it has the potential to cause significant performance improvements – or a slowdown – of your...
by Muhammad Irfan | Dec 9, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In MySQL 5.6 Oracle introduced a Transportable Tablespace feature (copying tablespaces to another server) and Percona Server adopted it for partial backups which means you can now take individual database or table backups and your destination server can be a vanilla...
by Peter Boros | Dec 4, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
Fact: MySQL is the most commonly used database in OpenStack deployments. Of course that includes a number of MySQL variants – standard MySQL by Oracle, MariaDB, Percona Server, MySQL Galera, Percona XtraDB Cluster, etc. However, there are many misconceptions and...
