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Grafana Plugin Installation in Percona Monitoring and Management 2.x
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source platform for monitoring databases and servers, that can be installed in your infrastructure and start collecting metrics from pmm-clients. Data...
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Using Vault to Store the Master Key for Data at Rest Encryption on Percona...
Since the release of Percona Server MongoDB 3.6.13 (PSMDB), you have been able to use Vault to store the encryption keys for data at rest encryption. Here’s how to set it up. First, you need to have a...
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MySQL Group Replication – Partial Network Failure Performance Impact
In this two-part blog series, I wanted to cover some failover scenarios with Group Replication. In part one, I will discuss an interesting behavior and performance degradation I discovered while...
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The State of the Open Source Database Industry in 2020: Part Three
A four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s first blog in this series on “Baseline Data and the Size of the Market” and his second blog in this series on...
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Webinar 5/6: The State of Open Source Databases
Join our CXO Matt Yonkovit as we close out our “State of Open Source Database” blog series with a 100% open source database-trends-dedicated webinar. This webinar is geared towards anyone interested in...
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The Agenda is Set for Percona Live ONLINE 2020!
We’re excited to announce the full agenda for Percona Live ONLINE 2020! In case you haven’t already heard, Percona Live ONLINE is a 24-hour, non-stop, open source database conference. This will be the...
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A Simple Approach to Troubleshooting High CPU in MySQL
One of our customers recently asked whether it is possible to identify, from the MySQL side, the query that is causing high CPU usage on his system. The usage of simple OS tools to find the culprit has...
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Percona Server for MongoDB LDAP Enhancements: User-to-DN Mapping
Automatic Role-Based Authorization by LDAP Comes to Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) In PSMDB 4.2.5-5, admins now have a way to leverage LDAP infrastructure to automatically assign database roles to...
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[Warning] InnoDB: Difficult to Find Free Blocks in the Buffer Pool
A couple of weeks ago, one of our customers reached us asking about the WARNING messages in their MySQL error log. After a while, there were a few more requests from some other customers asking whether...
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Webinar 5/11: Percona & PlanetScale Present: Introduction to Vitess on...
During this joint webinar our speakers, Alkin Tezuysal, Technical Expert at Percona and Sugu Sougoumarane, Co-Founder and CTO at PlanetScale, will provide attendees with hands-on experience using...
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Security Fix for Percona XtraBackup, Improvements in Percona Backup for...
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical...
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How Do Ansible Tags Work?
One of the most confusing Ansible features is the tags, and in this blog, I will try to clarify how they work. A tag is an attribute that you can set to an Ansible structure (plays, roles, tasks), and...
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Group Replication and Percona XtraDB Cluster: Overview of Common Operations
In this blog post I would like to give an overview of the most common failover scenarios and operations when using MySQL Group Replication 8.0.19 (aka GR) and Percona XtraDB Cluster 8 (PXC) (which is...
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Restoring a MongoDB Sharded Cluster to a Different Environment
If you have been working in the database field for some time, you have likely come across the need to create a new database, based on an existing one. The most common example I can think of is to...
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Percona XtraBackup 8.x and MySQL 8.0.20
On Monday, April 27, 2020, Oracle released the highly anticipated 8.0.20 version of the MySQL database server. This release contains changes to the InnoDB redo log format which breaks compatibility...
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Introducing the GA Release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0
April 29, 2020 – Percona is pleased to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. This release, based on Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 and Galera 4, brings together the best features of these...
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Webinar 5/13: 18 Things To Do When You Have a MySQL Bottleneck
Peter Zaitsev, Founder and CEO at Percona, presents a webinar focused on dealing with an unexpected high traffic event as it is happening. He’ll address the impact a traffic spike can have on your...
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The State of the Open Source Database Industry in 2020: Part Four
This post is the last in a four-part blog series by Matt Yonkovit, Percona Chief Experience Officer. Read Matt’s other blogs in the series here – “Baseline Data and the Size of the Market”, “Migrating...
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Webinar May 21st: How Safe is Asynchronous Master-Master Setup in MySQL?
It is common knowledge that built-in asynchronous master-master (active-active) replication is not safe in MySQL. I remember times when the official MySQL User Reference Manual stated that such an...
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Testing Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 with DBdeployer
In the light of support for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), the DBdeployer anniversary, and the newly released Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0, I’m happy to announce that Giuseppe Maxia has recently updated...
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