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How To Reduce the Costs of Database Management in Financial Services
Here we are, with an economic downturn looming globally and some countries facing a recession. For many execs and tech decision-makers in the financial services industry, it’s not the first go-round....
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MySQL 8 Doesn’t Like Your Groups
If you have not been keeping up with MySQL news, MySQL 5.7 reaches end of life in October 2023. This means no more bug fixes or security updates for MySQL 5.7. Users will be effectively forced to...
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Percona Monitoring and Management and Datadog Integration
So your company is using Datadog on the global level. Still, as DBA, you want to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for better database insights and maintain a common policy of Datadog as a...
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MySQL 8.0.33 – A Quick Peek
MySQL released version 8.0.33 on April 18th, featuring some attention-catching features. This blog post is a quick review of the release notes looking for the exciting items, and comments in italics...
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Using Encryption-at-Rest for PostgreSQL in Kubernetes
Data-at-rest encryption is essential for compliance with regulations that require the protection of sensitive data. Encryption can help organizations comply with regulations and avoid legal...
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Upgrading to MySQL 8: Tools That Can Help
As we approach end of life for MySQL 5.7 later this year, many businesses are currently working towards upgrading to MySQL 8. Such major version upgrades are rarely simple, but thankfully there are...
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Fixing Errant GTID With Orchestrator: The Easy Way Out
In this article, we will discuss errant Transaction /GTID and how we can solve them with the Orchestrator tool. Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool that runs as a...
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Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0.32-24, Updated Percona Backup for MongoDB: Release...
You know what time it is… it’s time for the release roundup! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely,...
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How to Persist a Hashed Format Password Inside ProxySQL
In this blog post, we will see how to persist the password inside the ProxySQL mysql_users table in hashed format only. Also, even if someone stored the password in cleartext, we see how to change...
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PostgreSQL Indexes Can Hurt You: Negative Effects and the Costs Involved
Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many...
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Speeding Up Restores in Percona Backup for MongoDB
When you do a database restore, you want to have it done as soon as possible. In the case of disaster recovery, the situation is stressful enough on its own. And the database is unusable until the...
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Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?
Even though open source software is firmly in the mainstream, used widely by businesses, governments, and everyone who owns a cell phone or computer, the question repeatedly arises: “Is open source...
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Open Source vs. Proprietary Database Software: What To Choose?
For starters, yes, Percona has chosen sides. We are a company of open source proponents. We’re also dedicated and active participants in the global open source community. But the intent here is to be...
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Add More Security to Your Percona Server for MongoDB With AWS IAM integration!
Did you notice that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.5-4 was released just a few days ago? This time around, it introduced improvements to the way we handle master key rotation for data at rest...
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Save Money in AWS RDS: Don’t Trust the Defaults
Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? I’ll show you some...
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ChatGPT vs. MySQL DBA Challenge
Given the increasing popularity of ChatGPT in solving questions of humankind, I decided to take a better look at the current state of AI. At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the...
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How To Use pt-secure-collect for Capturing Data in a Secure Way From the OS...
Sometimes crucial data sharing is avoided because of compliance rules, organizational policies, or numerous security concerns. The common use cases involve sharing pt-mysql-summary, pt-stalk, and other...
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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37: The Improved Inventory View, New...
We are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.37, which includes a revamped Inventory view, new experimental dashboards for Kubernetes monitoring, as well as many...
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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37, Percona Distribution for MongoDB...
It’s time for the release roundup!Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain...
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How To Start Logical Replication in PostgreSQL for Specific Tables Based on a...
In simpler terms, logical replication in PostgreSQL is a way to copy data from one database to another in a more flexible and customizable manner compared to physical replication. Instead of copying...
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