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Book Review: PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook
The open source database communities have been blessed the last several months with many books hitting the marketplace. The PostgreSQL 14 Administration Cookbook by Simon Riggs and Gianni Ciolli has...
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PostgreSQL 15: Stats Collector Gone? What’s New?
Anyone trying the upcoming PostgreSQL 15 might observe that one of the background processes is missing.postgres 1710 1 0 04:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/pgsql-15/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/15/data/...
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Two Extremely Useful Tools (pt-upgrade and checkForServerUpgrade) for MySQL...
My last blog, Percona Utilities That Make Major MySQL Version Upgrades Easier, detailed the tools available from the Percona toolkit that assists us with major MySQL version upgrades. The pt-upgrade...
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PostgreSQL for MySQL DBAs: Watch Command
Those new to the realm of PostgreSQL from other databases will find little gems sprinkled liberally through the software. One of those gems is the watch command. It can be used to repeatedly run a...
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Efficient Data Archiving in MySQL
Recently I have been working with a few customers with multiple terabytes of transactional data on their MySQL clusters. These very large datasets are not really needed for their daily operations but...
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Percona Server for MongoDB Data Directory Resize/Increase
Running a customer’s technical infrastructure often necessitates making changes in response to the shifting requirements of the industry. Thankfully, with the introduction of cloud computing, adapting...
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ProcFS UDF: A Different Approach to Agentless Operating System Observability...
When you look at database performance, it does not only depend on internal database operations but also on things going on in the operating system, network, storage system, hardware, etc. With that, if...
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Getting Started with RocksDB in Percona Server for MySQL
You may have read MyRocks Use Case: Big Dataset and been intrigued enough to want to evaluate RocksDB with InnoDB. It has several advantages including requiring less storage space. So how do you...
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PMM v2.30: New Dashboards, Improved DBaaS Experience, Free K8s Cluster for...
In this v2.30 release, we have focused on improving Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for usability, refining the dashboards (effortless root cause analysis), Database as a Service (DBaaS)...
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Working With PostgreSQL Dump Manifests
After working with PostgreSQL for so many years it’s sometimes surprising to see some of the utilities, to a certain degree, have capabilities that remain relatively unknown to more than a few people....
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MySQL Replicate From Unsigned-int to Unsigned-bigint
We often see an int column of a table that needs to be changed to unsigned-int and then unsigned-bigint due to the value being out of range. Sometimes, there may even be blockers that prevent us from...
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Speed Up Your Large Table Drops in MySQL
A large table is a pain for many reasons as long as it is in a system. And as if that’s not enough, it is also a difficult task to get rid of it. In this post, we will understand why it is a pain to do...
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AWS RDS Backups: What’s the True Cost?
You have your database instance deployed with AWS and you are using AWS RDS for MySQL. All work smoothly in terms of satisfying queries for your application and delivering reliable uptime and...
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Enabling ProcFS UDF in Percona Monitoring and Management
In my previous blog post, ProcFS UDF: A Different Approach to Agentless Operating System Observability in Your Database, I wrote about the ProcFS UDF MySQL plugin, which allows you to get operating...
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Working With Snapshots in PostgreSQL
One of the reasons I’ve never strayed far from PostgreSQL is that I am always discovering features that overcome all sorts of interesting problems. Although, to be honest, from time to time I’ve had...
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PostgreSQL for MySQL DBAs Episode 11: A Survey of Indexes
First, a big thanks for the kind responses to this series, and, as requested, here is an overview of index types available in PostgreSQL. The supporting video with bonus material can be found here....
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Percona Monitoring and Management Home Dashboard: What’s New?
The all-new Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Home dashboard is the answer to some of the main concerns of our users: A clear entry point (where do I start?) Context (is everything okay?) How did...
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Percona Operator for MongoDB Goes Cluster-Wide, Adds AKS Support, and More!
Percona Operator for MongoDB version 1.13 was recently released and it comes with various ravishing features. In this blog post, we are going to look under the hood and see what are the practical use...
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Testing LDAP Authentication and Authorization on Percona Operator for MongoDB
As of Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.12.0, the documentation now has instructions on how to configure LDAP Authentication and Authorization. It already contains an example of how to configure the...
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Column-Level Encryption in MySQL
In a post written earlier this year – Percona Server for MySQL Encryption Options and Choices – I discussed some of the options around encryption in MySQL. Being such a complex topic, that post was...
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