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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Packages are Available
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) packages have been released into our repositories. The most recent versions of Percona Server for MySQL (5.7 and 8.0), Percona XtraDB Cluster (5.7 and 8.0), Percona...
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Setting up an InnoDB Cluster With a Few Lines of Code
In this day and age, large enterprise companies make use of Ansible, Puppet, or Chef to provision MySQL servers, be it replica sets or clusters. This eases the burden of deployment and workflow...
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Tuning MongoDB for Bulk Loads
On a recent project, we were tasked with loading several billion records into MongoDB. That prompted us to dig a bit deeper into WiredTiger knobs & turns, which turned out to be a very interesting...
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Testing Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 Using Vagrant
As Alkin and Ramesh have shown us in their Testing Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 with DBdeployer post, it is now possible to easily deploy an environment to test the features provided by the brand new...
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Prepare MySQL for a Safe Shutdown
We’ve all started up MySQL only to receive some scary, unexpected error. Or maybe we’ve waited hours for it to finish shutting down while it just hangs on some task. Whether going down for maintenance...
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Introduction to Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster
As a Solutions Engineer at Percona, one of my responsibilities is to support our customers as they investigate new and emerging technologies. This affords me the opportunity to speak to many current...
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Percona Monthly Bug Report: May 2020
At Percona, we operate on the premise that full-transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any...
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Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 GA, Kubernetes Operator, Server for MongoDB...
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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Percona Live ONLINE 2020 Speaker Previews
Prominent guest speakers at Percona Live ONLINE have previewed their upcoming May 19-20, 2020 talks on the Percona Community Blog. Each speaker explains their talk, why it’s exciting, who would...
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Multithreaded ALTER TABLE with pt-online-schema-change and myloader
pt-online-schema-change emulates the way that MySQL alters tables internally, but it works on a copy of the table you wish to alter. It executes INSERT statements to import the data, that runs in a...
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Galera 4 Streaming Replication in Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0
I was testing the latest Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 (PXC) release which has the Galera 4 plugin, and I would like to share my experiences and thoughts on the Streaming Replication feature so far. What...
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A MongoDB Prototype With New Heterogeneous-Memory Storage Engine (Hse)
Introducing a new MongoDB Storage Engine Q. What is the Heterogeneous-memory Storage Engine? A key value store library developed (and open-sourced) by Micron that will work with any normal storage but...
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Tuning MySQL/InnoDB Flushing for a Write-Intensive Workload
In this post, the third in a series explaining the internals of InnoDB flushing, we’ll focus on tuning. (Others in the series can be seen at InnoDB Flushing in Action for Percona Server for MySQL and...
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New Feature in Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 – Streaming Replication
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 comes with an upgraded Galera 4.0 library, which provides a new feature – streaming replication. Let’s review what it is and when it might be helpful. Previous versions of...
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Webinar May 26: What’s New in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8.0?
During this webinar, Tyler Duzan, Product Manager for MySQL and Cloud at Percona, will discuss Percona’s decision to delay Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 to ship it with Galera 4 instead of Galera 3, and...
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Using Different Mount Points on Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Docker...
Two years ago, we showed how to use a different mount point on Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Docker deployments, in case you need to have data stored out of the default Docker paths. We have...
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Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 Behavior Change for pxc-encrypt-cluster-traffic
Percona has enforced stronger security in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8, but this requires some attention during the rollout of the new server version, so let see the why and what. In PXC there are...
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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.6 Releases with New Security Threat Tool
If database security is a top concern and you are looking for ways to quickly find and remediate common data security risks, you should try the newly announced Percona Monitoring and Management 2.6....
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Running Security Threat Tool In Percona Monitoring and Management For the...
As we have just released the new Security Threat Tool (STT) as part of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.6, I wanted to give you a basic overview of this new feature. Its goal is to advise PMM...
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Introducing an Update to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL
Percona is pleased to announce the release of an updated version of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. Following on our initial PostgreSQL Distribution, released in September 2019, this update...
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