Upcoming Webinar Wed 3/27: Monitoring PostgreSQL with Percona Monitoring and...
Please join Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn, as he presents his talk Monitoring PostgreSQL with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) on March 27th, 2019 at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Tues 4/9: MySQL 8.0 Architecture and Enhancement
Please join Percona’s Bug Analyst, Lalit Choudhary as he presents his talk MySQL 8.0 Architecture and Enhancement on Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 at 6:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 9:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar Wed 4/10: Extending and Customizing Percona Monitoring and...
Please join Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn, as he presents his talk Extending and Customizing Percona Monitoring and Management on April 10th, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT...
View ArticleMySQL 8.0 Architecture and Enhancement Webinar: Q & A
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the MySQL 8.0 Architecture and Enhancement webinar. First, I want to thank everybody for attending my April 9, 2019, webinar. The recording and...
View ArticleMySQL-python: Adding caching_sha2_password and TLSv1.2 Support
Python 2 reaches EOL on 2020-01-01 and one of its commonly used third-party packages is MySQL-python. If you have not yet migrated away from both of these, since MySQL-python does not support Python 3,...
View ArticleCreating Custom Sysbench Scripts
Sysbench has long been established as the de facto standard when it comes to benchmarking MySQL performance. Percona relies on it daily, and even Oracle uses it when blogging about new features in...
View ArticleWatch Webinar: Billion Goods in Few Categories – How Histograms Save a Life?
Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer Sveta Smirnova as she presents Billion Goods in Few Categories: How Histograms Save a Life? Watch the Recorded Webinar We store data with the intention...
View ArticleWatch Webinar: Upgrading / Migrating Your Legacy PostgreSQL to Newer...
Please join Percona’s PostgreSQL Support Technical Lead, Avinash Vallarapu and Senior Support Engineers, Fernando Laudares, Jobin Augustine and Nickolay Ihalainen as they demonstrate the methods to...
View ArticleWatch Webinar: Config Database (Shardings) Deep Dive
Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer Vinodh Krishnaswamy as he presents Deep Dive In the Config Database (Shardings). Watch the Recorded Webinar In MongoDB, we know the Sharded Cluster can...
View ArticleWatch Webinar: Speaking the same language as Developers and DBAs
Please join, Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn as he presents his talk Speaking the same language as Developers and DBAs. Watch the Recorded Webinar In this talk, we’ll go over some of the...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar 5/16: Monitoring MongoDB with Percona Monitoring and...
Please join Percona’s Product Manager Michael Coburn as he presents his talk Monitoring MongoDB with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) on May 16th, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT...
View ArticleMySQL: Disk Space Exhaustion for Implicit Temporary Tables
I was recently faced with a real issue about completely exhausting the disk space on MySQL. This was a serious issue because of the continuous outages of the service, as the customer had to constantly...
View ArticleCharset and Collation Settings Impact on MySQL Performance
Following my post MySQL 8 is not always faster than MySQL 5.7, this time I decided to test very simple read-only CPU intensive workloads, when all data fits memory. In this workload there is NO IO...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.25-31.35 Is Now Available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.25-31.35 on February 28, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories. This release of...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.43-28.32 Is Now Available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.43-28.32 on February 28, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories. This release...
View ArticlePercona XtraBackup 8.0.5 Is Now Available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.5 on March 4, 2019. Downloads are available from our download site and from apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL...
View ArticleReducing High CPU on MySQL: a Case Study
In this blog post, I want to share a case we worked on a few days ago. I’ll show you how we approached the resolution of a MySQL performance issue and used Percona Monitoring and Management PMM to...
View ArticlePMM’s Custom Queries in Action: Adding a Graph for InnoDB mutex waits
One of the great things about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is its flexibility. An example of that is how one can go beyond the exporters to collect data. One approach to achieve that is...
View ArticleMySQL Ripple: The First Impression of a MySQL Binlog Server
Just about a month ago, Pavel Ivanov released Ripple under the Apache-2.0 license. Ripple is a MySQL binlog server: software which receives binary logs from MySQL or MariaDB servers and delivers them...
View ArticleHow to Perform Compatible Schema Changes in Percona XtraDB Cluster (Advanced...
If you are using Galera replication, you know that schema changes may be a serious problem. With its current implementation, there is no way even a simple ALTER will be unobtrusive for live production...
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