by Adamo Tonete | Jul 7, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
In this blog post, I’ll look at how you can use a backup to start a secondary instance for MongoDB. Although the documentation says it is not possible to use a backup to start a secondary, sometimes this is the only possible way to start a new instance. In this...
by Kortney Runyan | Jul 20, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The Percona Live Data Performance Conference in Amsterdam is just two months away and it’s going to be an incredible event. With a new expanded focus on MySQL, NoSQL, and Data in the Cloud, this conference will be jam-packed with talks from some of the industry’s...
by Tom Diederich | Jul 9, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
The conference and tutorial schedule for Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23 in Amsterdam, was published this morning and this year’s event will focus on MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud. Conference sessions, which will follow each morning’s keynote addresses,...
by Roel Van de Paar | Jun 26, 2015 | Security
In a recent article on the Percona blog, I recommended readers to a tool called CamStudio for making technical screen recordings. The blog post was very popular and got 300+ Facebook likes in a short time. Providentially though, a reader commented that the installer...
by Jim Doherty | Jun 25, 2015 | MySQL
Oracle was in the news recently with the story of its license revenue declining as much as 17% in the recent quarter. This is blamed on transitioning to the cloud in some publications, but others, such as Bloomberg and TechRepublic, look deeper, seeing open source...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 28, 2015 | MongoDB
If you can make it to Manhattan next Monday, please join me at the MongoDB Community Open House. The June 1 event is free and open to all. It runs from 3:30-6:30 p.m. just across the road from MongoDB World. The MongoDB Community Open House, held at the New York...
by David Busby | May 18, 2015 | MySQL, Security
We have recently become a member of oCERT to aid in allowing responsible disclosure for Percona products and services as can be seen on their members page. We are presently working on the verbiage for the responsible disclosure program, and we are also investigating...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 8, 2015 | MongoDB, MySQL
While our engineering team is working on finalizing the TokuMXse storage engine, I want to provide an experimental build that you can try and test MongoDB 3.0 with our storage engine. It is available here...
by Alexey Zhebel | May 7, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Software
For those PCT users who forget to regularly check query performance, you can now get server query reports delivered to your email daily or weekly. The report contains a digest of the most critical performance information related to a particular MySQL instance,...
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 Tom Diederich | May 6, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev and Big Data guru Alexander Rubin will be speaking at Meetups along the East Coast next week with stops in Boston (May 11), New York City (May 12), Philadelphia (May 13) and Baltimore (May 14). Dubbed the “MySQL Whistle-Stop Tour” since...
by Tom Diederich | Apr 24, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
With highlights that included news of Percona’s acquisition of Tokutek, a lively keynote discussion with Apple legend Steve “Woz” Wozniak, scores of technical sessions, tutorials and a festive MySQL community dinner and game night, last week’s...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Mar 31, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.10 on March 31, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for...
by Mike Benshoof | Mar 13, 2015 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
Geographic information systems (GIS) are used by application developers to incorporate geographic information into their datasets to create apps with cool features such finding the address to the best steakhouse in town or the locations of local points of historical...
by Tom Diederich | Feb 23, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
Have designs on Percona Live this April in Silicon Valley? Send them to us! The winning entry will appear on a cool limited edition t-shirt that we’ll award to a few dozen lucky recipients at our booth’s new Percona T-Shirt Bar. The winner will also get a...
by Matt Griffin | Feb 18, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona has submitted seven talks for the next Voting ends February 23, and if you aren’t already an OpenStack Foundation member (required to vote), you can join now for free MySQL and OpenStack Deep Dive Speakers: Peter Boros, Jay Pipes (Mirantis) MySQL on Ceph...
by Kortney Runyan | Feb 3, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Live
It’s hard to believe that the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is just over two months away (April 13-16 in Santa Clara, California). So if you’ve been thinking about submitting a proposal for the popular “Lightning Talks” and/or...
by Kortney Runyan | Jan 30, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Live
This April 13-14 Percona is introducing an annual conference called OpenStack Live. I’ve seen a few questions about the new event so decided to help clarify what this show is about and who should attend. Unlike OpenStack Summits, held twice a year and dedicated to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 27, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MySQL
About two years ago we held our first-ever Percona University event in Raleigh, N.C. It was a great success with high attendance and very positive feedback which led us to organize a number of similar educational events in different locations around the world. And...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 26, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.13. Released January 26, 2015. 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...
