by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jul 1, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Software
With the CentOS project switching its focus to CentOS Stream, one of the alternatives that aim to function as a downstream build (building and releasing packages after they’re released by Red Hat) is Rocky Linux. This how-to shows how to install Percona Server...
by Michael Coburn | Jul 1, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Some of you may use MySQL’s asynchronous replication feature called Semisynchronous Replication (aka semi-sync), and now with the MySQL Semi-Sync Summary Dashboard + Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), you can see the most important metrics! Refer to the...
by Carlos Tutte | Jun 30, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Software
The Problem I recently worked on a customer engagement where the customer needed to archive a high amount of rows from different tables into another server (in this example for simplicity I am just archiving the results into a file). As explained in this other blog...
by Lalit Choudhary | Jun 30, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any of the databases that we support. And, in true open-source...
by Pep Pla | Jun 25, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Don’t Try This at Home! Disclaimer: The procedure described in this blog post is not officially supported by Percona XtraBackup. Use it under your responsibility. I tested and used it successfully, but your mileage may vary. Note from the author: Wikipedia...
by Oleksandr Miroshnychenko | Jun 24, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
This quickstart shows you how to use the Azure portal to deploy a dedicated Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation. It also shows you how to connect to the server. Prerequisites...
by Marco Tusa | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona is well known for its offer of several outstanding fully open source, free-to-download software packages. And while Percona started as a MySQL-focused company, nowadays it covers different technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. In its constant...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
At some point, your needs for improving database performance may run into a threshold where optimization and tuning are no longer enough. If you cannot change the database engine and can no longer tune the parameters for your workload, you need to use scaling. As it...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 23, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
GitOps workflow was introduced by WeaveWorks as a way to implement Continuous Deployment for cloud-native applications. This technique quickly found its way into devops and developer’s hearts as it greatly simplifies the application delivery pipeline: the change...
by Rachel Pescador | Jun 21, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Services, Percona Software
In just under a month, MongoDB will host its annual event, MongoDB.live. And just over a month ago, Percona held its annual event Percona Live. Despite the naming convention similarity, these events couldn’t be more different! Percona Live was an open source database...
by David Quilty | Jun 21, 2021 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 17, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Software
In my talk at Percona Live 2021, “Creating Chaos in Databases”, I discussed how creating a controlled interruption in available resources (I used primary pod and network interruptions) allows us to test the stability of a database, and in our case, Percona XtraDB...
by David Quilty | Jun 15, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona experts Michal Nosek and Dimitri Vanoverbeke as they walk through the task of migrating a MongoDB database to Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB). BY THE END OF THIS HANDS-ON WORKSHOP YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: – Uninstall MongoDB and install Percona...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jun 14, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) recently introduced the Integrated Alerting feature as a technical preview. This was a very eagerly awaited feature, as PMM doesn’t need to integrate with an external alerting system anymore. Recently we blogged about the...
by Mike Benshoof | Jun 14, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Software
The practice of running databases in containers continues to grow in popularity. As a Technical Account Manager at Percona, I get asked regularly about our Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator. Additionally, I’m asked what I’m seeing in the industry in terms of...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jun 10, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In the previous release of our Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator, we implemented one interesting feature, which can be seen as “self-healing”: https://jira.percona.com/browse/K8SPXC-564. I do not think it got enough attention, so I want to write more about this....
by Akira Kurogane | Jun 7, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) has provided a ‘hot’ backup of its underlying data db directory files using WiredTiger library methods since v3.4. When you use the { createBackup: … } command it will copy them to whichever other filesystem...
by David Quilty | Jun 7, 2021 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full...
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Jun 4, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
The combination of the information obtained from the “pt-summaries” discussed in the previous posts of this series (Part 1: The Percona Support Way, Part 2: Knowing the Server, Part 3: What MySQL?) helps us come up with the first impression of a MySQL server. However,...
by David Quilty | Jun 3, 2021 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Webinars
Join our expert team for a live demo of the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) platform and witness the power of Percona support! Bring your questions to the table in a live, open forum discussion. Brian Walters, Sr. Director of Solution Engineering, and Iwo...
