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Get Your Swag For a Review Right Now – New Giveaway Campaign!
You waited so long for this! And today we can announce the start of a new swag giveaway campaign. Hurry up to get your 100% free Percona swag. What do you need to do? Just tell us your story of Percona...
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Run PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with Percona Operator & Pulumi
Avoid vendor lock-in, provide a private Database-as-a-Service for internal teams, quickly deploy-test-destroy databases with CI/CD pipeline – these are some of the most common use cases for running...
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MySQL 8.0.28 Quick Peek
Oracle released MySQL 8.0.28 on January 18th with little fanfare, as part of their four times a year release cycle. So what is included in the new release? Over the past few years, there have been...
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Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.2: Release Roundup March 21, 2022
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility,...
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Authentication Plugin ‘***’ Cannot Be Loaded: How MySQL Searches Client-Side...
When MySQL client connects to the server it uses one of the authentication plugins. On the server-side, plugins are located in the directory, specified by the option plugin-dir that defaults to...
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MySQL 8: Password Verification Policy
In keeping with my MySQL 8 user administration and security theme, I’d like to discuss the password verification-required policy introduced in MySQL 8.0.13. With this feature, it is possible to require...
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MySQL 8: Multi-Factor Authentication Overview
As part of my ongoing series around MySQL 8 user administration, I’d like to cover one of the new features introduced in MySQL 8.0.27 – multi-factor authentication. In order to establish identity,...
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A Dive Into MySQL Multi-Threaded Replication
For a very long part of its history, MySQL replication has been limited in terms of performance. Because there was no way of knowing if transactions or updates were independent, the updates had to be...
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PostgreSQL From the Perspective of a MySQL DBA
DBAs can be set in their ways. Oftentimes, we start with a particular flavor and from that moment until the end of time, it will always be “the best”. In some cases, the debate is actually based on...
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Percona Monitoring and Management Security Threat Tool
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a multi-faceted tool that includes the Security Threat Tool which provides the ability to check your databases for potential configuration or performance...
View ArticleOkta – Percona’s statement
On 22nd March 2022 08:43 UTC, we became aware of the issue affecting Okta, a third-party identity provider that Percona uses for https://id.percona.com. Initially, there was no statement from Okta, so...
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MariaDB 10.9 Quick Peek
MariaDB 10.9 is a preview release of the popular open source database server and is considered alpha level code (pronounced: Not for production). It offers a glimpse of the evolution of the product and...
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Migrating to utf8mb4: Things to Consider
The utf8mb4 character set is the new default as of MySQL 8.0, and this change neither affects existing data nor forces any upgrades. Migration to utf8mb4 has many advantages including: It can store...
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MySQL Shell For VS Code – Your New GUI?
MySQL Shell For VS Code integrates the MySQL Shell directly into VS Code development workflows and was released last week. This extension to the popular VS Code platform enables interactive editing and...
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Percona Distributions for MongoDB 4.4.13, PostgreSQL 13.6: Release Roundup...
It’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility,...
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Hidden Cost of Foreign Key Constraints in MySQL
Do you wonder if MySQL tells you the truth about writes to tables that have foreign key constraints? The situation is complex, and getting visibility on what is really happening can be a problem. I...
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Upgrade your Libraries: Authentication Plugin ‘caching_sha2_password’ Cannot...
For my previous blog post on the topic, I received plenty of questions about why I did not cover the caching_sha2_password plugin. This plugin is the default since MySQL 8, and all user accounts which...
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A Story of a Failed Percona Monitoring and Management Update
Just the other day, one of my Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instances failed to update and ended up in a funny state: No matter how many times I clicked the “check for updates” button in...
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Face to Face with Semi-Synchronous Replication
Last month I performed a review of the Percona Operator for MySQL Server which is still Alpha. That operator is based on Percona Server for MySQL and uses standard asynchronous replication, with the...
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11 Sessions Not to Miss at Percona Live 2022
Percona Live is a jam-packed few days. There are over 100 sessions, covering a range of open source topics and featuring several tactical, hands-on demos. Obviously, you can’t attend every one of them,...
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