Percona XtraBackup 2.2.11 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.11 on May 28, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories.Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL...
View ArticleGetting EXPLAIN information from already running queries in MySQL 5.7
When a new version of MySQL is about to be released we read a lot of blog posts about the performance and scalability improvements. That’s good but sometimes we miss some small features that can help...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.6.25-73.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.25-73.0 on July 1, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.Based on MySQL...
View ArticleThe Q&A: Creating best-in-class backup solutions for your MySQL environment
Thank you for attending my July 15 webinar, “Creating Best in Class Backup solutions for your MySQL environment.” Due to the amount of content we discussed and some minor technical difficulties faced...
View ArticleWhy base64-output=DECODE-ROWS does not print row events in MySQL binary logs
Lately I saw many cases when users specified option--base64-output=DECODE-ROWS to print out a statement representation of row events in MySQL binary logs just to get nothing. Reason for this is...
View ArticleMySQL replication primer with pt-table-checksum and pt-table-sync
MySQL replication is a process that allows you to easily maintain multiple copies of MySQL data by having them copied automatically from a master to a slave database.It’s essential to make sure the...
View ArticleOptimizing PXC Xtrabackup State Snapshot Transfer
State Snapshot Transfer (SST) at a glancePXC uses a protocol called State Snapshot Transfer to provision a node joining an existing cluster with all the data it needs to synchronize. This is analogous...
View ArticleObjectRocket’s David Murphy talks about MongoDB, Percona Live Amsterdam
Say hello to David Murphy, lead DBA and MongoDB Master at ObjectRocket (a Rackspace company). David works on sharding, tool building, very large-scale issues and high-performance MongoDB architecture....
View ArticleMySQL is crashing: a support engineer’s point of view
In MySQL QA Episode #12, “MySQL is Crashing, now what?,” Roel demonstrated how to collect crash-related information that will help Percona discover what the issue is that you are experiencing, and fix...
View ArticlePercona Toolkit 2.2.15 is now available
Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.15. Released August 28, 2015. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server...
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