Videos from Percona

Let's take a simple Oracle-backed application, and migrate it to MariaDB Server 10.4. While we are at it, let's learn about how to use system versioned tables, Galera 4, the MyRocks storage engine, Flashback to rollback tables/databases to an older snapshot, and also use the built-in thread pool. This and more is possible in 3 hours, as MariaDBServer 10.4 has been out for some time now (June 2019) and it has many new features, some of...

There are many good databases out there. Picking the right database for your project is never easy. There are technical criteria, business criteria, perhaps even ethical criteria. In this keynote, MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arnö will present his – obviously completely impartial – view of the process.

Should you pick a database in the cloud or on-premise? Should you pick a relational database or a NoSQL database? Should you pick...

Sveta Smirnova (Percona) delivers the talk, "Billion Goods in Few Categories: How Histograms Save a Life?", on DAY 2 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019, 5/30, at Austin, TX.

We store data with an intention to use it: search, retrieve, group, sort... To do it effectively, the MySQL Optimizer uses index statistics when it compiles the query execution plan. This approach works excellently unless your data...

Karoly Nagy (Salesforce) delivers the talk, "From Scheduled Downtime to Self-Healing in Less Than a Year", on DAY 2 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019, 5/30, at Austin, TX.

Infrastructure automation is not easy, especially for stateful services like MySQL (or any other database for that matter). It goes way beyond the capabilities of Ansible, Chef, SaltStack or other similar tools. In this session I'm going...