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Innovation Release of Percona XtraBackup, Updated Percona Distribution for...
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Database Upgrades: DIY or Choose a Database Upgrade Consulting Service?
To maintain competitiveness and operational efficiency — not to mention ensure security and compliance when your database version reaches End of Life (EOL) – it’s crucial to upgrade your database...
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Introducing Percona’s API for Faster Snapshot-Based Backup and Restore for...
Although the introduction of physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) made it possible to significantly cut the restore time for big datasets, it’s hard to beat snapshots in speed and...
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Enhancing PostgreSQL Security: How to Encrypt the pgBackRest Repository
Encryption is the process of turning data into an unrecognizable format unless the necessary password (also known as passphrase) or decryption key is provided.This blog describes how to encrypt the...
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Partitioning in PostgreSQL With pg_partman (Serial-Based & Trigger-Based)
The PostgreSQL partition manager pg_partman is an open source extension widely supported and actively maintained by the PostgreSQL community. pg_partman is an extension that streamlines the creation...
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Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1, Percona Distribution for MySQL...
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The Magic of PITR, pg_upgrade, and Logical Replication When Used Together for...
Recently, I was reading a brilliant blog by Perconian David Gonzalez titled The 1-2-3 for PostgreSQL Logical Replication Using an RDS Snapshot, exploring the intricacies of setting up logical...
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Percona Monitoring and Management Dump: A New Tool to Support Percona Customers
In this post, I will present a new Percona tool: Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Dump. The PMM Dump performs a logical backup of the performance metrics collected by the PMM Server and imports...
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MySQL Interview Questions: Wrong Answers Only
During an interview or while having general discussions, I have found some funny responses that can be easily classified as “Wrong Answers,” but at times, they’re thought-provoking or involve a deep...
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How to Filter or Customize Alert Notifications in Percona Monitoring and...
In many scenarios, the standard alert notification template in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), while comprehensive, may not align perfectly with specific operational needs. This often leads to...
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Backup Mastery: Running Percona XtraBackup in Docker Containers
Ensuring the security and resilience of your data hinges on having a robust backup strategy, and Percona XtraBackup (PXB), our open source backup solution for all versions of MySQL, is designed to make...
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Keepalived for Source Failover: Percona XtraDB Cluster to Percona Server for...
In this article, we will demonstrate how to achieve asynchronous replication automatic source failover when our replica is a Percona Server for MySQL (PS) and the source is a Percona XtraDB Cluster...
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Maximizing Performance of AWS RDS for MySQL with Dedicated Log Volumes
A quick configuration change may do the trick in improving the performance of your AWS RDS for MySQL instance. Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV),...
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Storage Strategies for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
Deploying PostgreSQL on Kubernetes is not new and can be easily streamlined through various Operators, including Percona’s. There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration...
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How to Use Percona Toolkit’s pt-table-sync for Replica Tables With Triggers...
In Percona Managed Services, we manage Percona for MySQL, Community MySQL, and MariaDB. Sometimes, the replica server might have replication errors, and the replica might be out of sync with the...
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Exploring MySQL 8 Priority-Based Error Log Filtering
Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. MySQL 8 introduces Error Log...
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Can You Trust AI Chatbots When Seeking Help With Databases?
Will 2023 be called the year of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)? I don’t know, but certainly, the launching of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 sparked a huge hype explosion around that technology...
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How to Convert PostgreSQL Streaming Replication to Logical Replication
While a hallmark feature of PostgreSQL is streaming replication, sometimes data demands a more refined and adaptable replication approach to address different requirements. Logical replication offers a...
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Exploring the Improved CREATEROLE Attribute for User Management in PostgreSQL 16
A database role can have a number of attributes that define its privileges and interact with the client authentication system.One such attribute is the CREATEROLE attribute, which is important to...
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Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL...
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and...
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