Upcoming Webinar Friday 1/4: High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and...
Please join Percona’s Senior Software Engineer, Ibrar Ahmed as he presents his High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide on Friday, January, 4th, at 8:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 11:00 AM EDT...
View ArticleAmazon RDS Aurora MySQL – Differences Among Editions
Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility comes in three editions which, at the time of writing, have quite a few differences around the features that they support. Make sure you don’t assume the newer...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Wed 1/9: Walkthrough of Percona Server MySQL 8.0
Please join Percona’s MySQL Product Manager, Tyler Duzan as he presents Walkthrough of Percona Server MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, January 9th at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM (UTC-4). Register Now Our...
View ArticleAmazon Aurora Serverless – The Sleeping Beauty
One of the most exciting features Amazon Aurora Serverless brings to the table is its ability to go to sleep (pause) when idle. This is a fantastic feature for development and test environments. You...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Updatable Views: Performing Schema Updates With Minimal Downtime
Recently, one of our customers asked us how to minimize downtime when upgrading the database structure with changes that are not backwards-compatible. It’s an interesting question and I would like to...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Thurs 1/17: How to Rock with MyRocks
Please join Percona’s Chief Technology Officer, Vadim Tkachenko, as he presents How to Rock with MyRocks on Thursday, January 17th at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now MyRocks...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Thurs 1/24: Databases Gone Serverless?
Please join Percona’s Senior Technical Manager, Alkin Tezuysal, as he presents Databases Gone Serverless? on Thursday, January 24th, at 6:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 9:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Wed 1/30: Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios and...
Please join Percona’s Senior Technical Manager, Alkin Tezuysal, and Percona’s Percona XtraDB Cluster Lead, Krunal Bauskar as they present their talk, Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios and...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Thurs 1/31: Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0 Feature Walkthrough
Please join Vinodh Krishnaswamy as he presents his talk, Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0 Feature Walkthrough on January 31st, 2019, at 6:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 9:00 AM EST (UTC-5). Register Now Percona...
View ArticleUsing pg_repack to Rebuild PostgreSQL Database Objects Online
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to use pg_repack to rebuild PostgreSQL database objects online. We’ve seen a lot of questions regarding the options available in PostgreSQL for rebuilding a table...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Wed 2/6: Percona Software News and Roadmap Update
Join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents Percona Software News and Roadmap Update on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 2:00 PM EST (UTC-5). Register Now Come and listen to...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Thurs 2/7: Top Trends in Modern Data Architecture for 2019
Please join Percona’s PMM Product Manager, Michael Coburn for a webinar on The Top Trends in Modern Data Architecture for 2019 hosted by DBTA on Thursday, February 7th at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 2:00 PM...
View ArticleCompression Options in MySQL (Part 2)
In one of my previous posts, I started a series on data compression options with MySQL. The first post focused on the more traditional compression options like InnoDB Barracuda page compression and...
View Articleplprofiler – Getting a Handy Tool for Profiling Your PL/pgSQL Code
PostgreSQL is emerging as the standard destination for database migrations from proprietary databases. As a consequence, there is an increase in demand for database side code migration and associated...
View ArticleClickHouse Performance Uint32 vs Uint64 vs Float32 vs Float64
While implementing ClickHouse for query executions statistics storage in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), we were faced with a question of choosing the data type for metrics we store. It came...
View ArticleParallel queries in PostgreSQL
Modern CPU models have a huge number of cores. For many years, applications have been sending queries in parallel to databases. Where there are reporting queries that deal with many table rows, the...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Wed 3/6: High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Amazon RDS
Join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Amazon RDS on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019, at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 2:00 PM EST (UTC-5). Register Now In this...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Thurs 3/7: Enhancing MySQL Security
Join Percona Support Engineer, Vinicius Grippa, as he presents his talk Enhancing MySQL Security on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 at 7:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 10:00 AM EST (UTC-5). Register Now Security is...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Thurs 3/14: Web Application Security – Why You Should Review...
Please join Percona’s Information Security Architect, David Bubsy, as he presents his talk Web Application Security – Why You Should Review Yours on March 14th, 2019 at 6:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 9:00 AM...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Thurs 3/21: MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour
Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour on Thursday, March 21st, 2019, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4)....
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