by Borys Belinsky | Jan 4, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.6 on January 4, 2018. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL and MongoDB server and system tasks too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona...
by Emily Ikuta | Sep 5, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Software, Webinars
Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10am PT / 1pm ET (UTC-7) discuss the Percona roadmap, as well as what’s new in Percona open source software. Reserve Your Spot During this webinar Peter will talk about newly...
by Pablo Padua | Apr 17, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, we’ll look at the mysqlpump utility. mysqlpump is a utility that performs logical backups (which means backing up your data as SQL statements instead of a raw copy of data files). It was added in MySQL Server version 5.7.8, and can be used to dump...
by Alexey Stroganov | Apr 5, 2017 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the available PMP profiling tools. While debugging or analyzing issues with Percona Server for MySQL, we often need a quick understanding of what’s happening on the server. Percona experts frequently use the pt-pmp...
by Carlos Salguero | Mar 2, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll look at the pt-mongodb-summary tool in Percona Toolkit. The pt-mongodb-summary tool from Percona Toolkit provides a quick at-a-glance overview...
by Carlos Salguero | Mar 1, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we’ll look at how to use the pt-mongodb-query-digest tool in Percona Toolkit 3.0. Percona’s pt-query-digest is one of our most popular Percona...
by Dave Avery | Feb 21, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona’s MongoDB Practice Manager David Murphy on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST (UTC-8) as he reviews and discusses the Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and Percona Toolkit product bundle release....
by David Murphy | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is the first in a series on our Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. This release includes Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Monitoring and Management, and Percona Toolkit. In this post, we’ll look at the features included in the...
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 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 Hrvoje Matijakovic | Dec 9, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.20. Released December 9, 2016, Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that DBAs find too difficult or complex for to perform...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Aug 16, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.19. Released August 16, 2016. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that DBAs find too difficult or complex for to...
by Alexey Zhebel | Jun 24, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.18, released on June 24, 2016. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 7, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.17. Released March 7, 2016. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to...
by Miguel Angel Nieto | Nov 13, 2015 | MySQL
Recently we released an updated version of our Percona Toolkit with an important update for pt-online-schema-change if you use MySQL 5.6. A new parameter has been added, analyze-before-swap. What does it do? Let me explain it in more detail. A bug not a bug A customer...
by David Ducos | Sep 9, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
There are cases where we need to implement MySQL partitioning, or at least test if it is an option to solve an issue. However, how are we able to test it when the table on our production environment has hundreds of millions of rows, several composite indexes and/or...
by Andrew Moore | Sep 3, 2015 | MySQL
After some recent work with systemd I’ve realized it’s power and I can come clean that I am a fan. I realize that there are multitudes of posts out there with arguments both for and against systemd but let’s look at some nice ways to have systemd...
by Muhammad Irfan | Aug 12, 2015 | MySQL
MySQL replication is a process that allows you to easily maintain multiple copies of MySQL data by having them copied automatically from a master to a slave database. It’s essential to make sure the slave servers have the same set of data as the master to ensure...
by David Busby | May 6, 2015 | MySQL, Security
Contents Summary Analysis Mitigating factors P.O.C Acknowledgments Summary During a code audit performed internally at Percona, we discovered a viable information disclosure attack when coupled with a MITM attack in which percona-toolkit and xtrabackup perl components...
by Francisco Bordenave | May 4, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL
MySQL replication isn’t perfect and sometimes our data gets out of sync, either by a failure in replication or human intervention. We are all familiar with Percona Toolkit’s pt-table-checksum and pt-table-sync to help us check and fix data inconsistencies...
