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Infinitely Scalable Storage with High Compression Feature
It is no secret that compute and storage costs are the main drivers of cloud bills. Migration of data from the legacy data center to the cloud looks appealing at first as it significantly reduces...
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Easily Validate Configuration Settings in MySQL 8
In past versions of MySQL, there was often an ‘upgrade dance’ that had to be performed in starting up a newly upgraded MySQL instance with the previous version configuration file. In some cases a few...
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Working to Validate MyRocks in the Enterprise with Dropbox
Percona Technical Account Managers get the privilege of working with some of our largest enterprise clients day in and day out. As such, we get to really focus on how to best leverage our technology...
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Upgrading to MySQL 8: Embrace the Challenge
Nobody likes change, especially when that change may be challenging. When faced with a technical challenge, I try to remember this comment from Theodore Roosevelt: “Nothing in the world is worth...
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Percona XtraBackup Point-In-Time Recovery for the Single Database
Recovering to a particular time in the past is called Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR). With PITR you can rollback unwanted DELETE without WHERE clause or any other harmful command. PITR with Percona...
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Which Version of MySQL Should I Use for MyRocks?
As database footprints continue to explode, many companies are looking for ways to deal with such rapid growth. One approach is to refactor traditional relational databases to fit into a NoSQL engine,...
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Monitoring OPNSense Firewall with Percona Monitoring and Management
I try to use Open Source when a good solution exists, so for my home firewall, I’m using OPNSense – a very powerful FreeBSD-based firewall appliance with great features along with a powerful GUI. One...
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What’s New at Percona Live ONLINE 2021?
Percona Live ONLINE is a community-focused event for database developers, administrators, and decision-makers to share their knowledge and experiences. We would love you to join us on May 12-13 for...
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Percona Kubernetes Operators and Azure Blob Storage
Percona Kubernetes Operators allow users to simplify deployment and management of MongoDB and MySQL databases on Kubernetes. Both operators allow users to store backups on S3-compatible storage and...
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MySQL 101: Basic MySQL Server Triage
So your MySQL server has crashed. What do you do now? When a server is down, in my opinion, there are two steps that are essential and both are extremely important and neither should be neglected:...
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Deploying a MongoDB Proof of Concept on Google Cloud Platform
Recently, I needed to set up a Proof of Concept (POC) and wanted to do it on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). After documenting the process, it seemed it might be helpful for others looking for the most...
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Latest Version of pg_stat_monitor in Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, Bug...
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights...
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Replay the Execution of MySQL With RR (Record and Replay)
Chasing bugs can be a tedious task, and multi-threaded software doesn’t make it any easier. Threads will be scheduled at different times, instructions will not have deterministic results, and in order...
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Percona Live ONLINE: Focus on Unprecedented Demand for Scale
The full conference schedule for Percona Live ONLINE 2021, taking place on May 12-13, is now live! This year we see a strong focus on how organizations successfully managed the technology challenges...
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Percona Distribution for MySQL: High Availability with Group Replication...
This blog provides high availability (HA) guidelines using group replication architecture and deployment recommendations in MySQL, based on our best practices. Every architecture and deployment depends...
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What You Can Do With Auto-Failover and Percona Distribution for MySQL (8.0.x)
Where x is >= 22 😉 The Problem There are few things your data does not like. One is water and another is fire. Well, guess what: If you think that everything will be fine after all, take a look:...
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Win Percona Swag for Technical Product Reviews!
You can earn Percona swag by writing a short technical review about Percona software by May 30, 2021! The keyword here is technical. Percona is seeking reviews that describe Percona software use in...
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Online DDL with Group Replication In Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.22 (and...
While I was working on my grFailOver POC, I have also done some additional parallel testing. One of them was to see how online DDL is executed inside a Group Replication cluster. The online DDL feature...
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Platform End of Support Announcement for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
The End Of Support date for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is coming soon. According to the Ubuntu Release Life Cycle, it will be at the end of April 2021. With this announcement comes some implications to support...
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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.16 Brings Microsoft Azure Monitoring via...
This week we release Percona Monitoring and Management 2.16 (PMM), which brings some exciting new additions we’d like to highlight! Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Monitoring AWS monitoring in PMM now covers...
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