FOSDEM 2014 MySQL Devroom, Community Dinner in Brussels this Saturday!
This weekend, on 1-2 February, FOSDEM 2014 will take place in Brussels, Belgium. There will be MySQL talks on Saturday in the MySQL Devroom and a MySQL Community dinner afterward.30 people have already...
View ArticleSysbench Benchmarking of Tesora’s Database Virtualization Engine
Tesora, previously called Parelastic, asked Percona to do a sysbench benchmark evaluation of its Database Virtualization Engine on specific architectures on Amazon EC2.The focus of Tesora is to provide...
View ArticleCheck for MySQL slave lag with Percona Toolkit plugin for Tungsten Replicator
A while back, I made some changes to the plugin interface for pt-online-schema-change which allows custom replication checks to be written. As I was adding this functionality, I also added the --plugin...
View ArticleOrchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager
This blog post discusses Orchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager. What is Orchestrator? Orchestrator is a replication topology manager for MySQL. It has many great features: The topology and...
View ArticlePercona Live: Advanced Percona XtraDB Cluster in a Nutshell, La Suite
This blog post will discuss what is necessary of the Percona Live Advanced Percona XtraDB Cluster tutorial. Percona Live 2016 is happening in April! If you are attending, and you are registered to the...
View ArticleIs Your Database Affected by CVE-2016-6662?
In this blog post, I will discuss the CVE-2016-6662 vulnerability, how to tell if it affects you, and how to prevent the vulnerability from affecting you if you have an older version of MySQL. I’ll...
View ArticleCVE-2016-6225: Percona Xtrabackup Encryption IV Not Being Set Properly
If you are using Percona XtraBackup with xbcrypt to create encrypted backups, and are using versions older than 2.3.6 or 2.4.5, we advise that you upgrade Percona XtraBackup. Note: this does not affect...
View ArticleHow to Manually Build Percona Server for MySQL RPM Packages
In this blog, we’ll look at how to manually build Percona Server for MySQL RPM packages. Several customers and other people from the open source community have asked us how they could make their own...
View ArticleMySQL Ransomware: Open Source Database Security Part 3
This blog post examines the recent MySQL® ransomware attacks, and what open source database security best practices could have prevented them. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, MySQL Group Replication High...
Thank you for attending the Wednesday, June 21, 2017 high availability webinar titled Percona XtraDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, MySQL Group Replication. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q...
View ArticleMySQL & Friends Meetup @ FOSDEM
Kris Buytaert organized a MySQL Meetup at FOSDEM last year, and because of the success we’ll be doing it again this year, in the same restaurant: Sogno d’Italia. Everybody is invited to come to the...
View ArticleFree Percona Live London Reception at Revolution Bar
Even if you didn’t make it to Percona Live London, you can get the chance to hang out with us. We’re giving a reception at the Revolution Bar America Square just a few meters walk from the Tower Hill...
View ArticlePercona is Speaking At Open Source Data Center Conference in Nuremberg, Germany
Percona has 2 talks lined up at OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany: – Taking hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by Kenny Gryp Feel free to...
View ArticleSpeaking at Percona Live London 2012: Choosing Hardware for MySQL
Another Percona Live event is coming up, this time in London on the 3rd and 4th of December. I’m sure it is going to be as awesome as it was last year. This year, I will talk about ‘Choosing Hardware...
View ArticleA closer look at Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL
The Web And PHP Magazine just published an article describing Percona XtraDB Cluster written by Liz van Dijk and Kenny Gryp. It is a pretty high-level introduction to the technology, so definitely give...
View ArticleFOSDEM 2013: MySQL And Friends Community Dinner
Just like previous years, the ‘MySQL And Friends’ community is gathering to have a dinner on the Saturdaynight of FOSDEM. This time it is on February 2nd, 2013. This year, it will not be an Italian...
View Articleinnotop 1.9.1 released
Lefred and I spent a bit of time making innotop 1.9.1. We’ve released a new version mainly to include MySQL 5.6 support as well as including some bugs fixed by Baron Schwartz and Frédéric Descamps. You...
View ArticleMy Percona Live UK 2013 Tutorial: MySQL DBA In A Nutshell! Hands On!
Do you want to get more familiar on how to become a MySQL DBA? Are you a developer familiar with writing applications that use MySQL but you feel a bit limited on how to manage a MySQL Database? I...
View ArticleFOSDEM 2014: MySQL And Friends Community Dinner
FOSDEM is coming to town again here in Brussels this February 1-2, and as usual, there is a MySQL Devroom. Traditionally, a MySQL and Friends community dinner is also held during the event and this...
View ArticleMeltdown and Spectre: CPU Security Vulnerabilities
In this blog post, we examine the recent revelations about CPU security vulnerabilities. The beginning of the new year also brings to light fresh and new CPU security vulnerabilities. Today’s big...
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