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Deploying MySQL Group Replication With Terraform
Previously, I wrote about our Terraform provider to deploy Percona Server for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL: Automatic Cloud Deployment With Terraform) and Percona Monitoring and Management...
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ChatGPT Won’t Replace MySQL DBA – An Example of a Question About Encryption...
ChatGPT is the hottest topic in the tech world right now. One story even says that ChatGPT has passed Google’s Level 3 programming interview. I wondered, does that mean ChatGPT is ready to replace...
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PostgreSQL Migration From Digital Ocean DBaaS to Digital Ocean Droplet
Recently, one of our customers approached us with a unique challenge: they needed to migrate their entire PostgreSQL cluster from DigitalOcean’s Database as a Service (DBaaS) to a DigitalOcean Droplet....
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Feedback Wanted: Making EXPLAIN Require Less Privileges for...
Introduction/TLDR: We are considering changing EXPLAIN in Percona Server for MySQL to require less privileges for providing execution plans for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements (and possibly changing...
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Streaming MongoDB Backups Directly to S3
If you ever had to make a quick ad-hoc backup of your MongoDB databases, but there was not enough disk space on the local disk to do so, this blog post may provide some handy tips to save you from...
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Run For Your Favorite Database at Percona Live 2023
Sure, you ensure your database runs, but have you ever thought about running for your favorite database? You can do just that in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday, May 21, the day before Percona Live 2023...
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Percona Server for MongoDB 6 Adds Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
We’re pleased to announce that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.4 adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and compatible Linux distributions. With the 6.0.4 release you can now run Percona...
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Reducing PostgreSQL Costs in the Cloud
If you’re using PostgreSQL in the cloud, there’s a good chance you’re spending more than you need in order to get the results you need for your business. Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits...
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PMM V2.35: Label-based Access Control, General Availability of Helm Chart,...
Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35, including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a...
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PMM Access Control: A Comprehensive Guide With Use Cases and Examples
Why you might need granular Access Controls As companies grow from startups to larger organizations, they establish a hierarchical structure of roles and responsibilities that changes year to year. As...
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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.35, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.4:...
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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Run Percona Server for MongoDB on Your ARM-based MacBooks and More
The transition to Apple Silicon (the M1, M2 ARM-based CPUs) has been great for macOS fans in many ways, but it’s added some friction when you want to run containers locally for testing or development....
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MySQL 5.7 End of Life Six Months Away – Switch to Percona Server for MySQL...
Oracle’s MySQL 5.7 has had a good, long run, but the official End of Life is October of 2023. The Era of MySQL 5.x will be over, and only MySQL 8.0 will be officially supported. Yup, six months away....
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Reduce Your Cloud Costs With Percona Kubernetes Operators
Public cloud spending is slowing down. Quarter-over-quarter growth is no longer hitting 30% gains for AWS, Google, and Microsoft. This is businesses’ response to tough and uncertain macroeconomic...
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Purging Data When the Table Is Big and Has Children Tables
Hello friends, at Percona Managed Services, we usually do different types of things every day, including routine tasks, monitoring, and, very frequently, answering questions that are not always easy to...
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How To Calculate a Good MySQL Redo Log Size in MySQL 8
MySQL uses Redo Logs internally during crash recovery to correct data written by incomplete transactions. But how do you know what the right Redo Log size is? We will walk through how to figure that...
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Introducing Percona Builds for Serverless PostgreSQL
Recently, “serverless” has become a buzzword, and for good reason. The goal is to simplify the provisioning and management of database capacity. One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow...
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Dealing With “Too Many Connections” Error in MySQL 8
Over the years of being a DBA, I had to deal with all kinds of problems in the database. One of the most common problems I faced is the one related to the well-known error “ERROR 1040 (08004): Too many...
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Capped Collection in MongoDB
In this blog post, we will discuss the capped collection of MongoDB. Capped collection is a fixed-type collection that inserts docs in a circular fashion. This means once allocated files are full,...
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Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.41-44, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 4.2.24:...
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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