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December 2020

  1. Percona XtraBackup: Introducing Support For Storage Class in xbcloud
  2. Observations on Better Resource Usage with Percona Monitoring and Management v2.12.0
  3. Redesign of –lock-ddl-per-table in Percona XtraBackup
  4. Amazon RDS for MySQL 5.5 EOL Date is Approaching – Act Now!
  5. Percona Distributions for MySQL and PostgreSQL, Percona XtraBackup: Release Roundup December 21, 2020
  6. Percona Monitoring and Management Introduces "Integrated Alerting" in v2.13 via a Technical Preview
  7. Let’s Try Something New: Percona Open Source Expert Missions!
  8. Percona Monitoring and Management Migration from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics FAQ
  9. and you can load the large tables very fast using the importTable utility. In my next blog
  10. and if you need more help
  11. The Hidden Magic of Configuring Percona Repositories With a percona-release Package
  12. Matt’s Big, Bold, Open Source Predictions for 2021
  13. Enabling HTTPS Connections to Percona Monitoring and Management Using Custom Certificates
  14. VictoriaMetrics in PMM, Percona Server for MongoDB Version Updates: Release Roundup December 8, 2020
  15. Not Ready to Give Up MySQL 5.6? Get Post EOL Support from Percona!
  16. Running MongoDB on Amazon EKS Distro
  17. How to Configure MySQL SSL With Public Certificates
  18. Swag for Review: Special Winter Set for Percona MongoDB Products
  19. Enabling jemalloc on Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 Series
  20. Foiled by the Firewall: A Tale of Transition From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics
  21. How pgBackRest is Addressing Slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving Using Asynchronous Feature

November 2020

  1. Support for Percona XtraDB Cluster in ProxySQL (Part Two)
  2. Support for Percona XtraDB Cluster in ProxySQL (Part One)
  3. Webinar December 15: The Open Source Alternative to Paying for MongoDB
  4. Uncommon Sense MySQL – When EXPLAIN Can Trash Your Database
  5. Recover Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes From Wrong MySQL Config
  6. Impact of Percona Monitoring and Management "Get Latest" Command Change
  7. Demultiplexing Fix for Percona Backup for MongoDB, Redesign –lock-ddl-per-table in Percona XtraBackup: Release Roundup November 23, 2020
  8. Webinar December 9: How to Measure Linux Performance Wrong
  9. A Blog Shamelessly Bribing You to Review Percona Monitoring and Management!
  10. Wondering How to Run Percona XtraDB Cluster on Kubernetes? Try Our Operator!
  11. Tame Black Friday Gremlins — Optimize Your Database for High Traffic Events
  12. Kubernetes Scaling Capabilities with Percona XtraDB Cluster
  13. Measuring OpenEBS Local Volume Performance Overhead in Kubernetes
  14. Restore a Replica Set to a New Environment with Percona Backup for MongoDB
  15. OpenEBS for the Management of Kubernetes Storage Volumes
  16. Deep Dive Into PostgreSQL Indexes – Free Course at Percona University Online
  17. Updated Percona Distribution for MongoDB, Buffer Calculation Fix in Percona Server for MySQL: Release Roundup November 9, 2020
  18. Various Backup Compression Methods Using Mysqlpump
  19. ChaosMesh to Create Chaos in Kubernetes
  20. New in MongoDB 4.4: Hidden Index
  21. Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Without Access to the Internet
  22. Webinar November 19: Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB
  23. Running Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster with Kata Containers
  24. Fixing Data Slowdowns Without Breaking the Bank
  25. Adjusting MySQL 8.0 Memory Parameters
  26. Webinar November 17: Moving MongoDB to the Cloud – Strategies and Points To Consider
  27. Understanding MySQL Memory Usage with Performance Schema

October 2020

  1. CVE-2020-15180 – Affects Percona XtraDB Cluster
  2. Percona Monthly Bug Report: October 2020
  3. 2020 Percona Survey Results Reveal the Latest Open Source Database Trends
  4. Say Hello to Libcoredumper – A New Way to Generate Core Dumps, and Other Improvements
  5. Using MySQL 8 Persisted System Variables
  6. A First Glance at Amazon Aurora Serverless RDS
  7. MySQL 8.0.22: Asynchronous Replication Automatic Connection (IO Thread) Failover
  8. Community Contributors Invited to Update Percona Monitoring and Management Documentation
  9. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 13, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL: Release Roundup October 26, 2020
  10. MySQL New Releases and Percona XtraBackup Incompatibilities
  11. CVE-2020-26542: SimpleLDAP Authentication in Percona Server for MySQL, Percona Server for MongoDB
  12. Using Volume Snapshot/Clone in Kubernetes
  13. Webinar November 10: Google Cloud Platform – MySQL at Scale with Reliable HA
  14. Annotations Provide Context to Timelines in Percona Monitoring and Management
  15. Introducing the Preview of Database as a Service (DBaaS) in Percona Monitoring and Management
  16. Announcing Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 13
  17. PMM 101: Troubleshooting MongoDB with Percona Monitoring and Management
  18. 5 Things Developers Should Know Before Deploying MongoDB
  19. Danger of Changing Default of log_error_verbosity on MySQL/Percona Server for MySQL 5.7
  20. 5 Things DBAs Should Know Before Deploying MongoDB
  21. Announcing pg_stat_monitor Tech Preview: Get Better Insights Into Query Performance in PostgreSQL
  22. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC Variant) 8.0.20, Fixes For Security Vulnerability: Release Roundup October 13, 2020
  23. Setup Teams/Users With Limited Access in Percona Monitoring and Management
  24. Ask An Expert On Percona’s Community Forum!
  25. Amazon Aurora Multi-Primary First Impression
  26. The Criticality of a Kubernetes Operator for Databases
  27. MySQL 101: Troubleshooting MySQL with Percona Monitoring and Management
  28. Dangerous Edge Case Warning for Percona Toolkit and pt-online-schema-change
  29. How to Find Query Slowdowns Using Percona Monitoring and Management
  30. Webinar October 27: Disaster Recovery and High Availability – The Concepts, The Mistakes, and How To Properly Plan For Failure
  31. Our Approach to Percona Monitoring and Management Upgrade Testing
  32. Various Ways to Perform Schema Upgrades with Percona XtraDB Cluster
  33. Grab Your Percona Swag – For Free!
  34. Keynote Speakers for Percona Live ONLINE Have Been Announced!
  35. How to Use CHECK Constraint in MySQL 8
  36. Exciting and New Features in MariaDB 10.5
  37. Rate Limit (Throttle) for MySQL with ProxySQL
  38. Deploying Percona Kubernetes Operators with OpenEBS Local Storage
  39. PostgreSQL 13 New Feature: dropdb –force
  40. Webinar October 12: Percona Server for MongoDB – A Solid and Compatible Alternative to MongoDB

September 2020

  1. Postgresql_fdw Authentication Changes in PostgreSQL 13
  2. MySQL 101: Tuning MySQL After Upgrading Memory
  3. Using Security Threat Tool and Alertmanager in Percona Monitoring and Management
  4. PostgreSQL Configuration Changes You Need to Make Post-Installation
  5. 3 Features I Love in Percona Monitoring and Management 2.10
  6. New Features in Percona Monitoring and Management 2.10, Updated Percona Distribution for MongoDB: Release Roundup September 28, 2020
  7. Diagnosing and Fixing "MySQL Server Has Gone Away" Messages
  8. Webinar October 14: Percona, AWS, & ScienceLogic – Converting DBaaS to a Fully Managed Solution
  9. 5 Cool Features in Percona Monitoring and Management You Should Try!
  10. Webinar October 7: BPFTrace – Dtrace Replacement on Linux
  11. New MongoDB Exporter Released with Percona Monitoring and Management 2.10.0
  12. Using Security Definer to Monitor PostgreSQL 9.6 or Earlier Using Percona Monitoring and Management
  13. MongoDB 101: 5 Configuration Options That Impact Security (And How to Set Them)
  14. Grafana 7 Arrives with Percona Monitoring and Management 2.10.0
  15. Percona Customer Portal and Your New, Free User Account
  16. MongoDB 4.4 Performance Regression: Overwhelmed by Memory
  17. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.2 vs 4.4 in Python TPCC Benchmark
  18. How To Inject an Empty XA Transaction in MySQL
  19. Announcing the Agenda for Percona Live ONLINE, 20-21 October 2020!
  20. Webinar September 29: Learn About Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB
  21. Q & A on Webinar “Percona Server for MongoDB Data-at-Rest Encryption”
  22. How to Upgrade to MySQL 8.0 – Free Course at Percona University Online
  23. Improvements to Percona XtraBackup, Updates to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Release Roundup September 14, 2020
  24. Data Consistency for RDS for MySQL: The 8.0 Version
  25. How Much Memory Does the Process Really Take on Linux?
  26. Index Improvements in PostgreSQL 13
  27. Why PostgreSQL WAL Archival is Slow
  28. Checking Data Consistency for RDS for MySQL
  29. Webinar September 22: The Path to Open Source DBaaS with Kubernetes
  30. Webinar September 17: PostgreSQL High-Performance Tuning and Optimization

August 2020

  1. RocksDB Variables in Percona Server for MySQL, Updates to Percona Server for MongoDB: Release Roundup August 31, 2020
  2. Percona Monthly Bug Report: August 2020
  3. ProxySQL Binary Search Solution for Rules
  4. ProxySQL Overhead — Explained and Measured
  5. More on Checkpoints in InnoDB MySQL 8
  6. MySQL 8.0.19 InnoDB ReplicaSet Configuration and Manual Switchover
  7. Percona Announces Updates to MongoDB Solutions
  8. Creating an External Replica of AWS Aurora MySQL with Mydumper
  9. PostgreSQL synchronous_commit options and Synchronous Standby Replication
  10. Streaming Percona XtraBackup for MySQL to Multiple Destinations
  11. Percona Is Now ‘Partner Ready’ on the VMware Tanzu Platform
  12. Aligning Percona XtraBackup Versions with Percona Server for MySQL
  13. Q & A on Webinar "Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB"
  14. Managing Database Complexity with Percona Monitoring and Management
  15. Improvements in Percona Monitoring and Management, Kerberos Authentication in Percona Server for MongoDB: Release Roundup August 17, 2020
  16. Evaluating Performance Improvements in MariaDB 10.5.5
  17. Part Two: How Many innodb_buffer_pool_instances Do You Need in MySQL 8 With a CPU-Bound Workload?
  18. How Many innodb_buffer_pool_instances Do You Need in MySQL 8?
  19. Deadlock Troubleshooting in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7
  20. Smart Update Strategy in Percona Operator for MySQL Based on Percona XtraDB Cluster
  21. Percona is Now a Part of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program
  22. Percona Road Show… Straight To Your Home!
  23. MySQL 8.x DDL Rewriter and Query Rewriter Plugins: Implementation and Use Cases
  24. Webinar August 19: MongoDB Encryption at Rest
  25. Finding a Regression in MySQL Source Code: A Case Study
  26. Join Us For Percona Tech Days!
  27. How Can ScaleFlux Handle MySQL Workload?
  28. How to Manually Remove Client Instances From Percona Monitoring and Management 2
  29. Why the Heck Are So Many Databases Being Breached, Leaked, and Hacked?
  30. Compiling a Percona Monitoring and Management v2 Client in ARM Architecture
  31. The Road Story of a MyRocks/MariaDB Migration
  32. Percona Distribution for MySQL, New Features in Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster: Release Roundup August 3, 2020
  33. Using SKIP LOCK For Queue Processing in MySQL

July 2020

  1. How MySQL and MariaDB Perform on NVMe Storage
  2. Percona Monthly Bug Report: July 2020
  3. Checkpointing in MySQL and MariaDB
  4. Migrating to PostgreSQL Version 13: Incompatibilities You Should Be Aware Of
  5. Replication Between Two Percona XtraDB Clusters, GTIDs and Schema Changes
  6. Evaluating Checkpointing in PostgreSQL
  7. The Transaction Behavior Impact of innodb_rollback_on_timeout in MySQL
  8. ClickHouse and ColumnStore in the Star Schema Benchmark
  9. Generating Numeric Sequences in MySQL
  10. MongoDB: Utilization of an Index on Subdocuments
  11. Using Percona Kubernetes Operators with Percona Monitoring and Management
  12. Percona Audit Log Plugin and the Percona Monitoring and Management Security Threat Tool
  13. Beyond Relational Databases: A Focus on Redis, MongoDB, and ClickHouse
  14. Announcing Percona Live ONLINE: October 20-21, 2020
  15. Updates to Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster
  16. New MySQL 8.0.21 and Percona XtraBackup 8.0.13 Issues
  17. Backing Up Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster Databases to Google Cloud Storage
  18. Backup and Restore of MongoDB Deployment on Kubernetes
  19. Rework of QAN for Percona Monitoring and Management, Update to Percona Distribution for MongoDB: Release Roundup July 20, 2020
  20. MariaDB S3 Engine: Implementation and Benchmarking
  21. Improvements to Query Analytics (QAN) Component of Percona Monitoring and Management
  22. Percona Monitoring Plugins End of Life Notification
  23. Webinar July 23: Multi-Primary Replication Solutions for PostgreSQL
  24. MySQL Query Performance Troubleshooting: Resource-Based Approach
  25. binlog2sql: Binlog to Raw SQL Conversion and Point In Time Recovery
  26. Scaling the Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster
  27. On-Demand Webinar: Securing MongoDB
  28. A Simple MySQL Plugin to Retrieve System Metrics
  29. MySQL Deadlocks Are Our Friends
  30. Enable Email Sending in Percona Monitoring and Management 2
  31. Webinar July 15: MySQL 8 Observability
  32. MySQL 101: Linux Tuning for MySQL
  33. Adding eBPF-Based Metrics to Percona Monitoring and Management
  34. New Percona Distribution for MySQL, Improvements to Percona Monitoring and Management: Release Roundup July 6, 2020
  35. ProxySQL Behavior in the Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster
  36. Preventing MySQL Error 1040: Too Many Connections
  37. Webinar July 14: How Percona Monitoring and Management Improves Database Security
  38. Achieving Consistent Read and High Availability with Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0

June 2020

  1. Analyzing MySQL with strace
  2. Percona Server for MySQL Highlights – Extended Slow Query Logging
  3. Security Threat Tool Design in Percona Monitoring and Management
  4. Are You The Next Great Percona TAM?
  5. Webinar July 9 – Modern Solutions for Modern Database Load: MySQL 8.0 and Percona
  6. Top 7 Reasons Why Security Goes Wrong In A Database System
  7. MongoDB Checkpointing Woes
  8. MySQL Table Fragmentation: Beware of Bulk INSERT with FAILURE or ROLLBACK
  9. Evaluating MongoDB Under Python TPCC 1000W Workload
  10. Extending Percona Monitoring and Management for MySQL InnoDB Cluster with Custom Queries
  11. Percona Monthly Bug Report: June 2020
  12. Introducing Percona Distribution for MySQL
  13. Percona XtraBackup For All Versions of MySQL, Updated Percona Distribution of PostgreSQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster Improvements: Release Roundup June 22, 2020
  14. Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Docker Created Without pmm-data? No Problem!
  15. RED Method for MySQL Performance Analyses
  16. Percona Live Europe 2020 — Call for Papers!
  17. Contribute Product Feedback for Percona Development!
  18. Why is MongoDB’s SSPL Bad For You?
  19. Webinar July 30: Database Challenges – Open Source Vs. Open Core
  20. Evaluating the Python TPCC MongoDB Benchmark
  21. Brute-Force MySQL Password From a Hash
  22. MongoDB 4.4 Is Coming Out Soon – What Does the Code Tell Us?
  23. MySQL Escaping on the Client-Side With Go
  24. Dealing with Jumbo Chunks in MongoDB
  25. Webinar June 25: How to Avoid Pitfalls in Schema Upgrade with Percona XtraDB Cluster
  26. Running Custom MySQL Queries in Percona Monitoring and Management
  27. Multi-Master Replication Solutions for PostgreSQL
  28. Solution Brief: How Percona Helped Patreon Realize the Value of Their Database Infrastructure
  29. Webinar June 23: Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB
  30. Percona XtraBackup For All Versions of MySQL, Percona Server for MongoDB Updates, DBaaS CLI Tool 0.2.0: Release Roundup June 8 2020
  31. Using Percona Kubernetes Operators for Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Server for MongoDB in Amazon
  32. Q & A on Webinar "How Safe is Asynchronous Master-Master Setup in MySQL?"
  33. Improving MySQL Password Security with Validation Plugin
  34. SQL Query Formatting Tools Used At Percona
  35. Intro to Grafana Plugin Development
  36. Setting Up a MySQL and Orchestrator Docker Environment

May 2020

  1. How to Bootstrap a Virtual Conference During a Pandemic!
  2. Removing PostgreSQL Bottlenecks Caused by High Traffic
  3. Webinar June 10: Using eBPF for Linux Performance Analyses
  4. Percona Welcomes Community Contributors
  5. MongoDB: Why Pay for Enterprise When Open Source Has You Covered?
  6. Migrating from DynamoDB into MongoDB
  7. Best Practices for MySQL Backups
  8. Percona Backup for MongoDB v1.2 Released
  9. Is MongoDB the New Oracle?
  10. Webinar June 4: MySQL Ecosystem in 2020
  11. Security Threat Tool, Distribution for MongoDB, Percona Server for MySQL: Release Roundup May 26 2020
  12. Backup and Restore in Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster
  13. MySQL Training and Education Is Here for You!
  14. Failover of Logical Replication Slots in PostgreSQL
  15. Real-Time Replication From DynamoDB to MongoDB
  16. Introducing the Premiere Release of Percona Distribution for MongoDB
  17. Introducing an Update to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL
  18. Running Security Threat Tool In Percona Monitoring and Management For the First Time
  19. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.6 Releases with New Security Threat Tool
  20. Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 Behavior Change for pxc-encrypt-cluster-traffic
  21. Using Different Mount Points on Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Docker Deployments
  22. Webinar May 26: What’s New in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8.0?
  23. New Feature in Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 – Streaming Replication
  24. Tuning MySQL/InnoDB Flushing for a Write-Intensive Workload
  25. A MongoDB Prototype With New Heterogeneous-Memory Storage Engine (Hse)
  26. Galera 4 Streaming Replication in Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0
  27. Multithreaded ALTER TABLE with pt-online-schema-change and myloader
  28. Percona Live ONLINE 2020 Speaker Previews
  29. Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 GA, Kubernetes Operator, Server for MongoDB Updates: Release Roundup 5/11/2020
  30. Percona Monthly Bug Report: May 2020
  31. Introduction to Percona Operator for MySQL Based on Percona XtraDB Cluster
  32. Prepare MySQL for a Safe Shutdown
  33. Testing Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 Using Vagrant
  34. Tuning MongoDB for Bulk Loads
  35. Setting up an InnoDB Cluster With a Few Lines of Code
  36. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Packages are Available
  37. Testing Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 with DBdeployer
  38. Webinar May 21st: How Safe is Asynchronous Master-Master Setup in MySQL?

April 2020

  1. The State of the Open Source Database Industry in 2020: Part Four
  2. Webinar 5/13: 18 Things To Do When You Have a MySQL Bottleneck
  3. Introducing the GA Release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0
  4. Percona XtraBackup 8.x and MySQL 8.0.20
  5. Restoring a MongoDB Sharded Cluster to a Different Environment
  6. Group Replication and Percona XtraDB Cluster: Overview of Common Operations
  7. How Do Ansible Tags Work?
  8. Security Fix for Percona XtraBackup, Improvements in Percona Backup for MongoDB: Release Roundup 4/27/2020
  9. Webinar 5/11: Percona & PlanetScale Present: Introduction to Vitess on Kubernetes for MySQL
  10. [Warning] InnoDB: Difficult to Find Free Blocks in the Buffer Pool
  11. Percona Server for MongoDB LDAP Enhancements: User-to-DN Mapping
  12. The Agenda is Set for Percona Live ONLINE 2020!
  13. Webinar 5/6: The State of Open Source Databases
  14. The State of the Open Source Database Industry in 2020: Part Three
  15. MySQL Group Replication – Partial Network Failure Performance Impact
  16. Using Vault to Store the Master Key for Data at Rest Encryption on Percona Server for MongoDB
  17. Webinar 4/29: Distributed MySQL Architectures – Past, Present, and Future
  18. CVE-2020-10996 – Percona XtraDB Cluster SST script static key
  19. Tactics to Scale Down Your MongoDB Deployment
  20. How to Configure MongoDB Exporter with SSL/TLS
  21. MySQL Bug Reporter Hall of Fame
  22. SQL Optimizations in PostgreSQL: IN vs EXISTS vs ANY/ALL vs JOIN
  23. Evaluating Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 in I/O Bound Workload
  24. CVE-2020-10997 – Percona XtraBackup information disclosure of command line arguments
  25. What’s the Best Way to Enable (And Test) Encryption at Rest in RDS?
  26. Pstress: Database Concurrency and Crash Recovery Testing Tool
  27. Evaluating Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 Scaling Capabilities
  28. Benchmarking: More Stable Results with CPU Affinity Setting
  29. The State of the Open Source Database Industry in 2020: Part Two
  30. Optimizing Django ORM Queries with Percona Monitoring and Management
  31. Webinar 4/22: The Evolution of PostgreSQL Partitioning
  32. Need to Connect to a Local MySQL Server? Use Unix Domain Socket!
  33. LDAP Authorization in Percona Server for MongoDB, Security Fix in XtraBackup 8.0.11: Release Roundup 4/13/2020
  34. Evaluating Group Replication Scaling for I/O Bound Workloads
  35. Percona XtraBackup: Backup and Restore of a Single Table or Database
  36. Announcing Percona Live ONLINE – A 24-Hour Virtual Event
  37. Evaluating Group Replication with Multiple Writers in MySQL
  38. Daylight Saving Time and System Time Zone in MySQL
  39. Evaluating Group Replication Scaling Capabilities in MySQL
  40. The Evolution of the DBA Role
  41. How to Install ProxySQL From the Percona Repository
  42. Percona Monitoring and Management: Data Collection Practices
  43. 18 Things You Can Do to Remove MySQL Bottlenecks Caused by High Traffic (Part Three)
  44. The State of the Open Source Database Industry in 2020: Part One
  45. Introducing the LDAP Authentication Plugin in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.19
  46. 18 Things You Can Do to Remove MySQL Bottlenecks Caused by High Traffic (Part Two)
  47. April 15th: Virtual Round Table with Percona
  48. 18 Things You Can Do to Remove MySQL Bottlenecks Caused by High Traffic (Part One)
  49. Percona DBaaS CLI to Simplify Deployment in Kubernetes
  50. Why Enterprises are Moving to Containerization
  51. ProxySQL 2.0.9 Introduces Firewall Whitelist Capabilities
  52. Top Considerations When Moving from On-Premise to AWS (Part Two)
  53. Introducing Metabase, a Simple and Powerful Analytics Tool
  54. Tips for MySQL 5.7 Database Tuning and Performance
  55. #PerconaChat — 5 Essential Practices for Remote Working

March 2020

  1. Becoming Familiar With the Little Known SQL Keyword LATERAL
  2. Top Considerations When Moving from On-Premise to AWS (Part One)
  3. Share Your Database Market Insight in Our 2020 Open Source Database Survey
  4. Advanced Query Analysis in Percona Monitoring and Management with Direct ClickHouse Access
  5. Update to Percona XtraBackup, Features and Bug Fixes in Percona Server for MySQL, Percona Monitoring and Management 2.4.0: Release Roundup 3/30/2020
  6. Which Cloud Provider Performs Better for My Mysql Workload?
  7. Webinar 4/8: Why PostgreSQL is Becoming a Migration Target in Large Enterprises
  8. What is a TAM (Technical Account Manager) and Does Your Database Need One?
  9. Blog Poll: Database Traffic Trends
  10. Split-Brain 101: What You Should Know
  11. Sysbench and the Random Distribution Effect
  12. MySQL Performance Optimization with Percona Monitoring and Management – Webinar Followup
  13. A Tale About Migrating a PostgreSQL Database Between Different DBaaS Providers
  14. The Changing Face of Enterprise DBAs in Cloud-Driven Environments
  15. COVID-19 and the Tech World: Hyper Growth and Hyper Slowdowns
  16. Extending PMM’s Prometheus Configuration
  17. Setting up a ProxySQL Sidecar Container
  18. COVID-19: One Way to Take Action
  19. Blog Poll: What Would Be a Key Motivator to Attend Virtual Events?
  20. Help Drive the Future of Percona XtraDB Cluster
  21. How Container Networking Affects Database Performance
  22. Webinar 4/1: Monitor High Traffic Events Using Percona Monitoring and Management
  23. Early Access DBaaS Command Line Tool, XtraBackup 8.0.10: Release Roundup 3/16/2020
  24. How IT Can Scale and Manage Costs in an Economic Downturn
  25. Blog Poll: What’s The Optimum Duration for a Virtual Event?
  26. Percona Monitoring and Management Container, Are You Ready Yet?
  27. Adding PostgreSQL Databases/Tables Size Dashboard to the Percona Monitoring and Management Plugin
  28. Tricks and Tips For Remote Workers
  29. DBA Concerns About Next-Gen, Non-Volatile Memory Storage Products
  30. Percona Statement About the COVID-19 Outbreak
  31. Using Different Versions of a Package in an Application via Go Modules
  32. Webinar 3/23: When is MyRocks a Good Fit?
  33. Configuring a Read-Only Web Interface for Orchestrator
  34. ClickHouse Versus MySQL Handling of Double Quotes
  35. Webinar 3/18: Optimize and Troubleshoot MySQL Using Percona Monitoring and Management
  36. Percona Monitoring and Management New Features, Percona Server for MongoDB 4.2.3-4: Release Roundup 3/2/2020

February 2020

  1. Better Prometheus rate() Function with VictoriaMetrics
  2. Percona University is Coming to India in March!
  3. Benefit from Ongoing Innovation with Google Cloud
  4. Percona Monitoring and Management Continues to See Increased Adoption
  5. Embrace the Cloud with Microsoft Azure
  6. MySQL ERROR 1034: Incorrect Key File on InnoDB Table
  7. Percona Monitoring and Management, Meet Prometheus Alertmanager
  8. Percona Live Austin 2020 Sneak Peek!
  9. A Hidden Gem in MySQL: MyRocks
  10. MySQL Encryption: How Master Key Rotation Works
  11. Webinar 2/26: Building a Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster
  12. Configuring ProxySQL Binlog Reader
  13. PMM Optimizations, Updated Percona Server for MongoDB, proxysql-admin Tool: Release Roundup 2/17/2020
  14. How to Run Orchestrator on FreeBSD
  15. Introduction to MySQL 8.0 Recursive Common Table Expression (Part 2)
  16. Compression of PostgreSQL WAL Archives Becoming More Important
  17. Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Now Available on AWS Marketplace
  18. ProxySQL 1.4.16 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now Available
  19. Introduction to MySQL 8.0 Common Table Expressions (Part 1)
  20. How to Measure MySQL Performance in Kubernetes with Sysbench
  21. Webinar 2/19: 17 Things Developers Need to Know About Databases
  22. Observability Differences Between MySQL 8 and MariaDB 10.4
  23. Improvements in PMM, Bug Fixes in Percona Server, Percona Backup for MongoDB Alert: Release Roundup 2/3/2020
  24. ClickHouse and MySQL – Better Together

January 2020

  1. Webinar 2/6: MySQL 8 vs. MariaDB 10.4
  2. End of Life Notification for Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4
  3. Can Open Source Software Save You From Vendor Lock-in?
  4. Making Sense of MySQL Group Replication Consistency Levels
  5. InnoDB Flushing in Action for Percona Server for MySQL
  6. Ever Heard of Postgres?
  7. Deploying the Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB Cluster in Amazon (AWS)
  8. Beware of Unstable Query Digests in MySQL
  9. New Feature in Percona Backup for MongoDB, Fixes for PMM: Release Roundup 1/20/2020
  10. Considering a Fully Managed DBaaS Offering For Your Business?
  11. Group Replication in Percona Server for MySQL
  12. Upgrading PostgreSQL – Patroni Cluster and Switching from Python 2 to Python 3
  13. FOSDEM 2020 Program: Come Meet the Team
  14. Using Flame Graphs to Process Outputs From pt-pmp
  15. Changing the Default Admin Password in Docker-Based Deployment of PMM2
  16. Setup and Deploy Vitess on Kubernetes (Minikube) for MySQL – Part III of III
  17. Implementing Distributed MongoDB Backups Without the Coordinator
  18. Setup and Deploy Vitess on Kubernetes (Minikube) for MySQL – Part II of III
  19. Amazon RDS MySQL Minor Upgrades: Not So Fast!
  20. Percona Live 2020 Call for Papers Deadline Extension
  21. Examining MySQL InnoDB Persistent Statistics
  22. Webinar 1/16: How to Upgrade to MySQL 8 Like a Boss
  23. Introduction to Vitess on Kubernetes for MySQL – Part I of III
  24. MySQL 8 Minor Version Upgrades Are ONE-WAY Only
  25. How to Use ProxySQL 2 on Percona XtraDB Cluster for Failover
  26. MySQL Distributed Logical Backups: a Proof of Concept
  27. Permissions Issue When Upgrading MongoDB with Custom dbPath or logPath
  28. MySQL – A Series of Bad Design Decisions
  29. Updated Percona Server for MongoDB, Kubernetes Operator, Alternative Install for PMM 2.2.0:Release Roundup 1/8/2020
  30. Enable LDAP on Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  31. How Securing MySQL with TCP Wrappers Can Cause an Outage
  32. Webinar 1/10: MongoDB 4.0 and 4.2 Performance Review – What’s New
  33. Blog Poll: What is the Root Cause of Most of Your Database-Related Issues?
  34. A Day in the Life of a Technical Account Manager
  35. Data Masking in Percona Server for MySQL to Protect Sensitive Data
  36. Webinar January 19: MongoDB Atlas vs Managed Community Edition
  37. PMM 2.2 Released with Full Support for Amazon RDS and Aurora
  38. Seriously Inconsistent Table Information in MySQL 8.0 Information_Schema
  39. Using pt-heartbeat with ProxySQL
  40. How to Create Your Own Repositories for Packages
  41. Implementing a Database Center of Excellence
  42. Q & A on Webinar "Top 3 Features of MySQL"

2019 346

December 2019

  1. MySQL Docker Containers: Quick Async Replication Test Setup
  2. Using Referential Constraints with Partitioned Tables in InnoDB
  3. Shared Responsibility Model in the Cloud – Part 2
  4. Contention in MySQL InnoDB: Useful Info From the Semaphores Section
  5. MongoDB Compatibility in AWS DocumentDB
  6. MySQL Encryption: Master Key Encryption in InnoDB
  7. Grafana Plugins and Percona Monitoring and Management
  8. The Benefits of Amazon RDS for MySQL
  9. Q & A on Webinar "Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps"
  10. Give Love to Your SSDs – Reduce innodb_io_capacity_max!
  11. Webinar 12/20: Pros and Cons of PCI/DSS Certification with MySQL
  12. The Shared Responsibility Model of Security in the Cloud
  13. 2019 Database Year in Review: The Revenge of the Cloud
  14. Updated XtraDB Cluster, XtraBackup, Percona Servers, New Features in Kubernetes Operator: Release Roundup 12/17/2019
  15. Percona Backup for MongoDB in Action
  16. Webinar 12/19: Top 3 Features of MySQL
  17. Open Source: What You Do Today Impacts Billions of People
  18. MySQL Encryption: Talking About Keyrings
  19. Ensure Your Database Infrastructure Supports New Year Revenue Goals
  20. PostgreSQL 12 Improvement: Benign Log Entries "Incomplete Startup Packet"
  21. Percona Live 2020: Call For Papers
  22. Webinar 12/5: Introduction to MySQL Query Tuning for DevOps
  23. Percona XtraBackup 8.0.8, Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.15-3.5: Release Roundup 12/2/2019

November 2019

  1. Running PMM1 and PMM2 Clients on the Same Host
  2. Comparing S3 Streaming Tools with Percona XtraBackup
  3. MySQL UUIDs – Bad For Performance
  4. Tips for Designing Grafana Dashboards
  5. Profiling Software Using perf and Flame Graphs
  6. Proposal for Global Indexes in PostgreSQL
  7. Installing MySQL with Docker
  8. PMM 2.1, MongoDB Hot Backups, Percona Server Updates: Release Roundup 11/18/2019
  9. Don’t Use MongoDB Profiling Level 1
  10. Blog Poll: Who Chooses Your Database Technology?
  11. Let Percona Actively Manage Your Databases To Achieve Peak Performance
  12. Watch Out for Disk I/O Performance Issues when Running EXT4
  13. Prepare Your Databases for High Traffic on Black Friday
  14. Configure HAProxy with PostgreSQL Using Built-in pgsql-check
  15. Choose Your EC2 Instance Type Wisely on AWS
  16. Updated PMM and Percona Server for MongoDB, Utility User Feature in Percona Server for MySQL: Release Roundup 11/4/2019
  17. Use MySQL Without a Password (and Still be Secure)

October 2019

  1. How Percona Support Handles Bugs
  2. PostgreSQL Application Connection Failover Using HAProxy with xinetd
  3. Understanding Hash Joins in MySQL 8
  4. Spooktacularly Scary Database Stories
  5. Monitoring PostgreSQL Databases Using PMM
  6. Column Histograms on Percona Server and MySQL 8.0
  7. Using Explain Analyze in MySQL 8
  8. Setting up MongoDB with Member x509 auth and SSL + easy-rsa
  9. Percona Roadshow Fall 2019: Conferences in Russia and UK in November
  10. ProxySQL 2.0.7 and proxysql-admin Tool Now Available
  11. Seamless Application Failover using libpq Features in PostgreSQL
  12. MySQL Workbench Review
  13. PMM Server + podman: Running a Container Without root Privileges
  14. How to Start a 3-Node Percona XtraDB Cluster with the Binary Tarball Package
  15. Webinar 10/16: What’s New in Percona Monitoring and Management 2?
  16. How to Set Up Streaming Replication in PostgreSQL 12
  17. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.14-3.4 Now Available
  18. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.0.1 Is Now Available
  19. Blog Poll: Adding/Upgrading Instances, Hardware, and Migration
  20. Achieving Disaster Recovery with Percona XtraDB Cluster
  21. Centralization Vs. Decentralization of DBA Teams
  22. Top 5 Takeaways from Percona Live Europe 2019
  23. Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 (experimental release) : SST Improvements
  24. Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 New Feature: wsrep_sst_auth Removal
  25. Experimental Binary of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0

September 2019

  1. Avoid Vendor Lock-in with Percona Backup for MongoDB
  2. Upgrading to MySQL 8? Meet the MySQL Shell Upgrade Checker Utility
  3. Multiplexing (Mux) in ProxySQL: Use Case
  4. Running Percona XtraDB Cluster on Raspberry PI 3
  5. Incident Involving Percona Forums on September 24, 2019
  6. Explore Percona Monitoring and Management on Your Own with Linode
  7. Why Database Schema Optimization Matters
  8. Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.0.0 GA Is Now Available
  9. Webinar 9/24: Preparing for Disaster Recovery on MySQL and PostgreSQL
  10. Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster 1.2.0 Now Available
  11. Percona Kubernetes Operator for MongoDB 1.2.0 Is Now Available
  12. Update on fsync Performance
  13. A Guide to Installing Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)2 For the First Time
  14. Manage Your Complex Database Environments with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)2 GA
  15. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.27-31.39 Is Now Available
  16. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.45-28.36 Is Now Available
  17. Webinar 9/19: Introducing Java Profiling via Flame Graphs
  18. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: The Best Enterprise-Level Components From One Source
  19. Through the Eyes of a TAM at Percona
  20. Percona Toolkit 3.1.0 Is Now Available
  21. Webinar 9/17: Percona XtraBackup vs Mariabackup vs MySQL Enterprise Backup
  22. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.12-6 Now Available
  23. Percona University Istanbul on October 4
  24. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2 Beta 7 Is Now Available
  25. Announcing the Launch of Percona Server for MongoDB 4.2.0-1
  26. Which Indexes are Cached? Discover with PMM.
  27. Security Matters at Percona Live Europe 2019
  28. Announcing Keynotes for Percona Live Europe 2019!
  29. Simulating InnoDB Secondary Index Corruption

August 2019

  1. PMM for PostgreSQL: Quick Start Guide
  2. Using linux-fincore to Check Linux Page Cache Usage
  3. Kubernetes – Introduction to Containers
  4. Webinar 8/29: MongoDB Sharded Cluster & HA – How to Design your Topology
  5. Blog Poll: Which of These Issues Have You Experienced as Related to Your Database?
  6. Webinar 8/28: Best Practices for Migrating to Open Source Databases
  7. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.27-30 Is Now Available
  8. Cleaning Docker Disk Space Usage
  9. ProxySQL 2.0.6 and proxysql-admin tool Now Available
  10. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.45-86.1 Now Available
  11. Upcoming Webinar 8/22: Advanced Techniques to Profile and Visualize with Flame Graphs
  12. The Impact of Downtime on Your Business
  13. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 11 (Beta) Is Now Available
  14. Percona Live Europe 2019 Schedule
  15. The Long-Awaited MongoDB 4.2 GA Has Landed
  16. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16-7 Is Now Available
  17. A Faster, Lightweight Trigger Function in C for PostgreSQL
  18. How to Manage ProxySQL Cluster with Core and Satellite Nodes
  19. MySQL 8 and MySQL 5.7 Memory Consumption on Small Devices
  20. SET PERSIST in MySQL: A Small Thing for Setting System Variable Values
  21. ProxySQL 2.0.5 and proxysql-admin tool Now Available
  22. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.22-2.20 Now Available
  23. Percona XtraBackup 8.0.7 Is Now Available
  24. Percona Live Europe 2019: Sneak Peek
  25. MongoDB: Impact-free Index Builds using Detached ReplicaSet Nodes
  26. Webinar 8/7: Performance Analyses and Troubleshooting Technologies for Databases
  27. How to Adjust Linux Out-Of-Memory Killer Settings for PostgreSQL
  28. Your Personal Data Just Leaked and It’s (Partly) Your Fault
  29. MySQL 8.0.17 Clone Plugin: How to Create a Slave from Scratch

July 2019

  1. PostgreSQL: Simple C extension Development for a Novice User (and Performance Advantages)
  2. Blog Poll: Who’s Responsible for Securing the Data in your Databases?
  3. Using plpgsql_check to Find Compilation Errors and Profile Functions
  4. Network (Transport) Encryption for MongoDB
  5. Parallelism in PostgreSQL
  6. Debian 10 "Buster" Packages Available for Percona Products
  7. Upcoming Webinar 7/25: Enhancing MySQL Security
  8. Connect to MySQL after hitting ERROR 1040: Too many connections
  9. PMM for MongoDB: Quick Start Guide
  10. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2 Beta 4 Is Now Available
  11. Automatic Index Recommendations in PostgreSQL using pg_qualstats and hypopg
  12. Upcoming Webinar 7/23: 10 Common Mistakes Java Developers Make when Writing SQL
  13. Assessing MySQL Performance Amongst AWS Options – Part Two
  14. Resolving MongoDB Stack Traces
  15. MySQL: Disk Space Exhaustion for Implicit Temporary Tables
  16. Assessing MySQL Performance Amongst AWS Options – Part One
  17. Upcoming Webinar 7/18: Learn how to connect a MySQL database with Java
  18. Percona Kubernetes Operator for MongoDB 1.1.0 Is Now Available
  19. BRIN Index for PostgreSQL: Don’t Forget the Benefits
  20. Avoid Vendor Lock-in by Embracing Open Source
  21. Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster 1.1.0 Now Available
  22. Percona Live Europe 2019 Conference Updates
  23. MySQL: The Impact of Transactions on Query Throughput
  24. MongoDB Security vs. Five ‘Bad Guys’
  25. Docker Security Considerations Part I
  26. Percona XtraBackup 2.4.15 Is Now Available
  27. PostgreSQL WAL Retention and Clean Up: pg_archivecleanup
  28. Upcoming Webinar 7/10: Learn how to run MongoDB Inside of a Containerized Environment
  29. Fixing MySQL 1045 Error: Access Denied
  30. Hiding Fields in MongoDB: Views + Custom Roles
  31. MongoDB Disaster, Snapshot Restore and Point-in-time Replay
  32. Blog Poll: What Keeps You Up At Night?
  33. Percona Server for MySQL Highlights – binlog_space_limit
  34. Percona Live 2019’s Top 10 Highest-Rated Talks
  35. ALTERS, Foreign Keys, and Metadata Locks, oh my!
  36. MySQL to the Cloud! Thoughts on Migrating Away from On-Premise
  37. Setting World-Writable File Permissions Prior to Preparing the Backup Can Break It
  38. Deep Dive Into PostgreSQL Indexes Webinar: Q & A

June 2019

  1. Percona Live 2019’s Top 10 Most Attended Talks
  2. InnoDB ALTER TABLE ADD INDEX and INSERT performance
  3. Upcoming Webinar 6/27: Beyond Relational Databases – A Look Into MongoDB, Redis, and ClickHouse
  4. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.26-31.37 Is Now Available
  5. Stored Functions and Temporary Tables are Not a Good Fit
  6. Percona Live Europe 2019 Call for Papers is Now Open!
  7. Upcoming Webinar 6/26: MongoDB Data Security – Custom Rules and Views
  8. Adaptive Hash Index on AWS Aurora
  9. Diving into the MongoDB 4.2 Release Small Print
  10. pt-kill: How it Works
  11. Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on Ubuntu/Debian
  12. Upcoming Webinar 6/25: MongoDB Transactions
  13. Hypothetical Indexes in PostgreSQL
  14. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.13-3.3 Is Now Available
  15. Percona’s View on MongoDB’s 4.2 Release – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…
  16. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.21-2.19 Is Now Available
  17. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.44-28.34 Is Now Available
  18. Percona’s Commitment to Supporting MongoDB Users
  19. Upcoming Webinar 6/19: A Deep Dive Into PostgreSQL Indexing
  20. Percona Server for MongoDB – Now Featuring HashiCorp Vault Integration
  21. Percona Backup for MongoDB 0.5.0 Early Release is Now Available
  22. Bloom Indexes in PostgreSQL
  23. On the Road: Russia, UK and France Summer MeetUps
  24. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.10-5 Now Available
  25. How to Report Bugs, Improvements, New Feature Requests for Percona Products
  26. How pt-online-schema-change Handles Foreign Keys
  27. Enterprise Database Solution – Maximizing Return for the Lowest Cost
  28. Google Summer of Code – Percona Interns
  29. DDL Queries on Foreign Key Columns in MySQL/PXC

May 2019

  1. RHEL 8 Packages Available for Percona Products
  2. Percona Live 2019 Keynotes, Day Two
  3. Percona Live Community Dinner 2019
  4. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2 Beta Is Now Available
  5. MySQL Community Awards at Percona Live 2019
  6. Percona Live 2019 Keynotes, Day One
  7. Announcing Percona Kubernetes Operators
  8. ProxySQL 2.0.4 and proxysql-admin tool Now Available
  9. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.26-29 Is Now Available
  10. Critical Update for Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.44-85.0
  11. Check Out the Percona Live 2019 Live Stream!
  12. Introduction to Docker and Using Percona Server for MongoDB
  13. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.44-85.0
  14. Upcoming Webinar 5/16: Monitoring MongoDB with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  15. PostgreSQL Minor Versions Released May 9, 2019
  16. Solve Query Failures Regarding ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY SQL Mode
  17. Community Update for PL Open Source Database Conference 2019
  18. pgBackRest – A Great Backup Solution and a Wonderful Year of Growth
  19. Announcing Keynotes for Percona Live Open Source Database Performance Conference 2019!
  20. Improving OLAP Workload Performance for PostgreSQL with ClickHouse Database
  21. Percona XtraBackup 8.0.6 Is Now Available
  22. Measuring MySQL Performance in Kubernetes
  23. MySQL InnoDB Sorted Index Builds
  24. ProxySQL 2.0.3 and updated proxysql-admin tool
  25. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-6 Is Now Available
  26. MariaDB Track at Percona Live
  27. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.0.0-alpha2 Is Now Available
  28. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.12-3.2 Is Now Available
  29. MySQL Memory Management, Memory Allocators and Operating System
  30. Percona XtraBackup 2.4.14 Is Now Available
  31. Benchmark ClickHouse Database and clickhousedb_fdw
  32. Watch Webinar: Speaking the same language as Developers and DBAs
  33. MySQL Community Contributor Awards 2019

April 2019

  1. Upcoming Webinar Wed 5/1: Horizontally scale MySQL with TiDB while avoiding sharding
  2. ZFS For MongoDB Backups
  3. Watch Webinar: Config Database (Shardings) Deep Dive
  4. Load Balanced ProxySQL in Google Cloud
  5. Watch Webinar: Upgrading / Migrating Your Legacy PostgreSQL to Newer PostgreSQL Versions
  6. The MySQL Track (and More) at Percona Live 2019
  7. Watch Webinar: Billion Goods in Few Categories – How Histograms Save a Life?
  8. Creating Custom Sysbench Scripts
  9. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.0.0-alpha1 Is Now Available
  10. Adding PostgreSQL Queries Overview Dashboards to the PMM Plugin
  11. End of Life Announcement for Query Analyzer and MySQL Configuration Generator
  12. MySQL-python: Adding caching_sha2_password and TLSv1.2 Support
  13. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.9-4 Is Now Available
  14. PostgreSQL CommitFest 2019-03 Ends
  15. Percona Universities in South America Next Week
  16. A Truly Open Source Database Conference
  17. Fast Upgrade of Legacy PostgreSQL with Minimum Downtime Using pg_upgrade
  18. Please Vote for Percona in the DBTA Readers’ Choice Awards 2019
  19. MySQL 8.0 Architecture and Enhancement Webinar: Q & A
  20. How to Add More Nodes to an Existing ProxySQL Cluster
  21. Continuous Replication From a Legacy PostgreSQL Version to a Newer Version Using Slony
  22. Upcoming Webinar Wed 4/10: Extending and Customizing Percona Monitoring and Management
  23. Upcoming Webinar Tues 4/9: MySQL 8.0 Architecture and Enhancement
  24. Adding PostgreSQL Tuple Statistics Dashboard to the PMM Plugin
  25. Writing PostgreSQL Extensions is Fun – C Language
  26. Replication Between PostgreSQL Versions Using Logical Replication
  27. Running MySQL / Percona Server in Kubernetes with a Custom Config
  28. Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator 0.3.0 Early Access Release Is Now Available
  29. Simple STONITH with ProxySQL and Orchestrator

March 2019

  1. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.20-2.18 Is Now Available
  2. PostgreSQL: Access ClickHouse, One of the Fastest Column DBMSs, With clickhousedb_fdw
  3. Percona University Travels to South America
  4. Upcoming Webinar Wed 3/27: Monitoring PostgreSQL with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  5. Percona Server for MongoDB Operator 0.3.0 Early Access Release Is Now Available
  6. How to Perform Compatible Schema Changes in Percona XtraDB Cluster (Advanced Alternative)?
  7. MongoDB on ARM Processors
  8. How To Test and Deploy Kubernetes Operator for MySQL(PXC) in OSX/macOS?
  9. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 3/21: MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour
  10. PostgreSQL Upgrade Using pg_dumpall
  11. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-5 Is Now Available
  12. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.11-3.1 Is Now Available
  13. MySQL Ripple: The First Impression of a MySQL Binlog Server
  14. Percona’s Open Source Data Management Software Survey
  15. Super Saver Discount Ends 17 March for Percona Live 2019
  16. Live MySQL Slave Rebuild with Percona Toolkit
  17. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 3/14: Web Application Security – Why You Should Review Yours
  18. PMM’s Custom Queries in Action: Adding a Graph for InnoDB mutex waits
  19. Reducing High CPU on MySQL: a Case Study
  20. Settling the Myth of Transparent HugePages for Databases
  21. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 3/7: Enhancing MySQL Security
  22. How to Upgrade Amazon Aurora MySQL from 5.6 to 5.7
  23. Percona XtraBackup 8.0.5 Is Now Available
  24. Upcoming Webinar Wed 3/6: High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Amazon RDS
  25. PostgreSQL Webinar Wed April 17 – Upgrading or Migrating Your Legacy PostgreSQL to Newer PostgreSQL Versions

February 2019

  1. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.43-28.32 Is Now Available
  2. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.25-31.35 Is Now Available
  3. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.6-3 Is Now Available
  4. MySQL 8.0 Bug 94394, Fixed!
  5. Percona XtraBackup Now Supports Dump of InnoDB Buffer Pool
  6. MySQL Challenge: 100k Connections
  7. Percona Live 2019 First Sneak Peek!
  8. PostgreSQL fsync Failure Fixed – Minor Versions Released Feb 14, 2019
  9. Measuring Percona Server for MySQL On-Disk Decryption Overhead
  10. Percona Server for MongoDB Operator 0.2.1 Early Access Release Is Now Available
  11. MySQL 8 is not always faster than MySQL 5.7
  12. Parallel queries in PostgreSQL
  13. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.17.1 Is Now Available
  14. ProxySQL Native Support for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)
  15. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.19-2.17 Is Now Available
  16. How Network Bandwidth Affects MySQL Performance
  17. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.25-28 Is Now Available
  18. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.5-2 Is Now Available
  19. Deprecation of TLSv1.0 2019-02-28
  20. ClickHouse Performance Uint32 vs Uint64 vs Float32 vs Float64
  21. FOSDEM 2019 – Percona Presentations
  22. plprofiler – Getting a Handy Tool for Profiling Your PL/pgSQL Code
  23. Debugging MariaDB Galera Cluster SST Problems – A Tale of a Funny Experience
  24. Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2)
  25. ProxySQL 1.4.14 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool
  26. Column Families in MyRocks
  27. Percona Responds to MySQL LOCAL INFILE Security Issues
  28. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.10-3.0 Is Now Available
  29. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 2/7: Top Trends in Modern Data Architecture for 2019
  30. New Percona Package Signing Key Requires Update on RHEL and CentOS
  31. Upcoming Webinar Wed 2/6: Percona Software News and Roadmap Update
  32. Using pg_repack to Rebuild PostgreSQL Database Objects Online

January 2019

  1. A New Dashboard to Monitor Memory Usage in the PMM plugin!
  2. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.43-84.3 Is Now Available
  3. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 1/31: Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0 Feature Walkthrough
  4. Upcoming Webinar Wed 1/30: Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios and their Recovery
  5. Percona Server for MongoDB Operator 0.2.0 Early Access Release Is Now Available
  6. Monitor and Optimize Slow Queries with PMM and EverSQL – Part 2
  7. Open Source Database Conference CFP Deadline Sunday January 27
  8. A Quick Look into TiDB Performance on a Single Server
  9. MySQL 8.0.14: A Road to Parallel Query Execution is Wide Open!
  10. MongoDB Replica Set Scenarios and Internals – Part II (Elections)
  11. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 1/24: Databases Gone Serverless?
  12. Monitor and Optimize Slow Queries with PMM and EverSQL – Part One
  13. Percona Live 2019: Committee Announced and a Short Extension
  14. Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator 0.2.0 Early Access Release Is Now Available
  15. Percona XtraBackup 2.4.13 Is Now Available
  16. Replication Manager Works with MariaDB
  17. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.13-4 Is Now Available
  18. Using Parallel Query with Amazon Aurora for MySQL
  19. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.22-3.13 Is Now Available
  20. Customizing Per-Process Metrics in PMM
  21. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 1/17: How to Rock with MyRocks
  22. Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?
  23. AWS Aurora MySQL – HA, DR, and Durability Explained in Simple Terms
  24. Percona Backup for MongoDB 0.2.0-Alpha Is Now Available
  25. ProxySQL 1.4.13 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool
  26. PostgreSQL Updatable Views: Performing Schema Updates With Minimal Downtime
  27. Percona Toolkit 3.0.13 Is Now Available
  28. Amazon Aurora Serverless – The Sleeping Beauty
  29. Percona Live 2019 Tracks
  30. Upcoming Webinar Wed 1/9: Walkthrough of Percona Server MySQL 8.0
  31. Understanding MySQL X (All Flavors)
  32. Amazon RDS Aurora MySQL – Differences Among Editions
  33. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.42-28.30 Is Now Available
  34. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.24-31.33 Is Now Available
  35. Upcoming Webinar Friday 1/4: High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide
  36. MongoDB Engines: MMAPV1 Vs WiredTiger
  37. TasksMax: Another Setting That Can Cause MySQL Error Messages

2018 477

December 2018

  1. Great things that happened with PostgreSQL in the Year 2018
  2. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 General Availability
  3. Release Notes for Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.13-3 GA
  4. Backup and Restore a PostgreSQL Cluster With Multiple Tablespaces Using pg_basebackup
  5. Percona Server for MongoDB Authentication Using Active Directory
  6. Benchmark PostgreSQL With Linux HugePages
  7. Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts
  8. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-27 Is Now Available
  9. Using Partial and Sparse Indexes in MongoDB
  10. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0.4-1 GA Is Now Available
  11. Amazon RDS Aurora Serverless – The Basics
  12. MongoDB Backup: How and When To Use PSMDB hotbackup and mongodb_consistent_backup
  13. AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) – Can We Get It Truly Elastic?
  14. Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator Is Now Available
  15. Upcoming Webinar Wed 12/12: MySQL 8 for Developers
  16. Percona Server for MongoDB Operator Is Now Available as an Early Access Release
  17. Percona XtraBackup 8.0.4 Is Now Available
  18. MySQL 8 and The FRM Drop… How To Recover Table DDL
  19. Nondeterministic Functions in MySQL (i.e. rand) Can Surprise You
  20. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-26 Is Now Available
  21. MongoDB 4.0: Using ACID Multi-Document Transactions
  22. Percona Live 2019 Call for Papers is Now Open!

November 2018

  1. PostgreSQL Streaming Physical Replication With Slots
  2. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.42-84.2 Is Now Available
  3. MySQL High Availability: Stale Reads and How to Fix Them
  4. Setting innodb_open_files Higher Than open_files_limit
  5. Setup Compatible OpenLDAP Server for MongoDB and MySQL
  6. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 11/29: Improve MongoDB Performance with Proper Queries
  7. Percona at AWS Re:Invent 2018!
  8. See Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev’s Keynote at AWS re:Invent: MySQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery
  9. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.18-2.16 Is Now Available
  10. Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1)
  11. Caveats With pt-table-checksum Using Row-Based Replication, and Replication Filters
  12. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-25 Is Now Available
  13. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.62-38.14 Is Now Available
  14. Identifying Unused Indexes in MongoDB
  15. How CVE-2018-19039 Affects Percona Monitoring and Management
  16. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.17.0 Is Now Available
  17. Installing and Configuring JIT in PostgreSQL 11
  18. Migrating to Amazon Aurora: Design for Flexibility
  19. Percona on the AWS Database Blog
  20. PostgreSQL Minor Versions: Time to Update!
  21. Migrating to Amazon Aurora: Optimize for Binary Log Replication
  22. How Not to do MySQL High Availability: Geographic Node Distribution with Galera-Based Replication Misuse
  23. MySQL High Availability On-Premises: A Geographically Distributed Scenario
  24. Reference Architecture(s) for High Availability Solutions in Geographic Distributed Scenarios: Why Should I Care?
  25. ProxySQL 1.4.12 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool
  26. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-24 Is Now Available
  27. Oracle Recognizes Percona Fixes in MySQL 8.0
  28. Percona Live Europe 2018: What’s Up for Wednesday
  29. Welcome to Percona Live Europe 2018 Tuesday Keynotes and Sessions!
  30. How to Quickly Add a Node to an InnoDB Cluster or Group Replication
  31. Maintenance Windows in the Cloud
  32. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.16.0 Is Now Available
  33. WiredTiger Encryption at Rest with Percona Server for MongoDB
  34. How To Best Use Percona Server Column Compression With Dictionary

October 2018

  1. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.8-2.0 Is Now Available
  2. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0: Reliability, Performance, and Security
  3. Percona Server for MongoDB 4.0 – Ideal Solution for More Production Use Cases
  4. Percona XtraBackup 8.0-3-rc1 Is Available
  5. Release Candidate for Percona Server 8.0.12-2rc1 Is Available
  6. 20+ MongoDB Alternatives You Should Know About
  7. PostgreSQL locking, part 3: lightweight locks
  8. One Week Until Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2018
  9. Announcing Keynotes for Percona Live Europe!
  10. Percona Live Europe 2018: Our Sponsors
  11. Poll: MongoDB License Change
  12. PostgreSQL locking, part 2: heavyweight locks
  13. Reclaiming space on your Docker PMM server deployment
  14. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 10/25: Why Do Developers Prefer MongoDB?
  15. One Billion Tables in MySQL 8.0 with ZFS
  16. Percona Live Europe Presents … In Their Own Words
  17. PostgreSQL Q&A: Building an Enterprise-Grade PostgreSQL Setup Using Open Source Tools
  18. ProxySQL 1.4.11 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now in the Percona Repository
  19. Percona Statement on MongoDB Community Server License Change
  20. PostgreSQL 11! Our First Take On The New Release
  21. Webinar: MongoDB 4.0 Features – Transactions & More
  22. Can MySQL Parallel Replication Help My Slave?
  23. PostgreSQL locking, Part 1: Row Locks
  24. Track PostgreSQL Row Changes Using Public/Private Key Signing
  25. How to Fix ProxySQL Configuration When it Won’t Start
  26. Percona Live 2019 – Save the Date!
  27. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.15.0 Is Now Available
  28. Instrumenting Read Only Transactions in InnoDB
  29. MongoDB Replica set Scenarios and Internals – Part 1
  30. PostgreSQL Monitoring: Set Up an Enterprise-Grade Server (and Sign Up for Webinar Weds 10/10…)
  31. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 10/11: Build Highly Scalable IoT Architectures with Percona Server for MongoDB
  32. Announcement: Second Alpha Build of Percona XtraBackup 8.0 Is Available
  33. Persistence of autoinc fixed in MySQL 8.0
  34. Detailed Logging for Enterprise-Grade PostgreSQL
  35. PostgreSQL Extensions for an Enterprise-Grade System
  36. MongoDB-Disable Chained Replication
  37. The Importance of mysqlbinlog –version
  38. Percona Live Europe 2018 Session Programme Published
  39. Percona Blog Poll: How Do You Run Your Database in the Cloud?
  40. Finding Table Differences on Nullable Columns Using MySQL Generated Columns
  41. CRITICAL UPDATE for Percona XtraDB Cluster users: 5.7.23-31.31.2 Is Now Available
  42. Scaling PostgreSQL using Connection Poolers and Load Balancers for an Enterprise Grade environment
  43. ClickHouse: Two Years!
  44. How To Fix MySQL Replication After an Incompatible DDL Command

September 2018

  1. High Availability for Enterprise-Grade PostgreSQL Environments
  2. This Week in Data with Colin Charles #54: Percona Server for MySQL is Alpha
  3. Scaling Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  4. Announcement: Alpha Build of Percona Server 8.0
  5. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.17-2.15 Is Now Available
  6. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.23-31.31 Is Now Available
  7. Scaling IO-Bound Workloads for MySQL in the Cloud – part 2
  8. Why Optimization derived_merge can Break Your Queries
  9. Upcoming Webinar Thurs 9/27: Best Practices Using Indexes in MongoDB
  10. Backing up Percona Server for MySQL with keyring_vault plugin enabled
  11. Securing PostgreSQL as an Enterprise-Grade Environment
  12. End-of-Life Reminder for Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2
  13. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 53: It’s MariaDB Week PLUS Percona Live Europe Update
  14. Prometheus 2 Times Series Storage Performance Analyses
  15. ProxySQL 1.4.10 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now in the Percona Repository
  16. MyRocks Disk Full Edge Case
  17. Tutorial Schedule for Percona Live Europe 2018 Is Live
  18. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.21-3.12 Is Now Available
  19. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.41-28.28 Is Now Available
  20. Monitoring Processes with Percona Monitoring and Management
  21. Upcoming Webinar Wed 9/19: Percona Server for MongoDB vs MongoDB Enterprise
  22. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.7-1.5 Is Now Available
  23. Using the keyring_vault Plugin with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7
  24. This Week in Data With Colin Charles 52: London MySQL Meetup
  25. PostgreSQL Webinar Wed Oct 10th – Enterprise-Grade PostgreSQL: Built on Open Source Tools
  26. Encryption of the InnoDB System Tablespace and Parallel Doublewrite Buffer
  27. Percona Toolkit 3.0.12 Is Now Available
  28. Analyzing Amazon Aurora Slow Logs with pt-query-digest
  29. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-23 Is Now Available
  30. Announcement: Experimental Build of Percona XtraBackup 8.0
  31. How To Deploy PMM on Linode With StackScripts
  32. Using ProxySQL to connect to IPv6-only databases over IPv4
  33. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.14.1 Is Now Available
  34. Upcoming Webinar Tues 9/11: Migrating to AWS Aurora: A Checklist for Success
  35. Taboola and Percona Host a Meetup in Tel Aviv, Oct 3
  36. MongoDB: Investigate Queries with explain() and Index Usage (part 2)
  37. Percona Becomes a Sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation
  38. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.14.0 Is Now Available
  39. Modifying List of Collected Metrics on PMM Linux Exporter
  40. Webinar: Running MySQL in Kubernetes
  41. MongoDB Index Types and MongoDB explain() (part 1)
  42. Monitoring S.M.A.R.T. Metrics with Prometheus and PMM
  43. 40 million tables in MySQL 8.0 with ZFS

August 2018

  1. This Week in Data With Colin Charles 51: Debates Emerging on the Relicensing of OSS
  2. Webinar: Choosing the Right Open Source Database
  3. Is It a Read Intensive or a Write Intensive Workload?
  4. Scaling IO-Bound Workloads for MySQL in the Cloud
  5. Tune Linux Kernel Parameters For PostgreSQL Optimization
  6. Extend Metrics for Percona Monitoring and Management Without Modifying Code
  7. Webinar Wed 8/29: Databases in the Hosted Cloud
  8. MySQL 8: Load Fine Tuning With Resource Groups
  9. Webinar Tuesday, 8/28: Forking or Branching – Lessons from the MySQL Community
  10. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 50: Percona Live Europe Sessions, PostgreSQL in Google Cloud
  11. PostgreSQL Accessing MySQL as a Data Source Using mysql_fdw
  12. Comparing Data At-Rest Encryption Features for MariaDB, MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL
  13. How to Compile Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 in Raspberry Pi 3
  14. Webinar Thurs 8/23: MySQL vs MongoDB – Choosing the Right Technology for Your Application
  15. Foreign Data Wrappers in PostgreSQL and a closer look at postgres_fdw
  16. Using AWS EC2 instance store vs EBS for MySQL: how to increase performance and decrease cost
  17. Webinar Tues 8/21: MariaDB 10.3 vs. MySQL 8.0
  18. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.41-84.1 Is Now Available
  19. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.61-38.13 Is Now Available
  20. Replication from Percona Server for MySQL to PostgreSQL using pg_chameleon
  21. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 49: MongoDB Conference Opportunities and Serverless Aurora MySQL
  22. MongoDB Data Validator: How to Use the JSON Schema Validator
  23. Webinar Thurs 16/8: Developing an App on MongoDB: Tips and Tricks
  24. Open Source Database Community Blog: The Story So Far
  25. Webinar Tues 8/14: Amazon Migration Service: The Magic Wand to Migrate Away from Your Proprietary Environment to MySQL
  26. Tuning Autovacuum in PostgreSQL and Autovacuum Internals
  27. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 48: Coinbase Powered by MongoDB and Prometheus Graduates in the CNCF
  28. Lock Down: Enforcing AppArmor with Percona XtraDB Cluster
  29. Webinar Thursday Aug 9: Migrating to AWS Aurora, Monitoring AWS Aurora with PMM
  30. How to Change Settings for PMM Deployed via Docker
  31. Resource Usage Improvements in Percona Monitoring and Management 1.13
  32. Replicating from MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 5.7
  33. Understanding of Bloat and VACUUM in PostgreSQL
  34. Webinar: Utilizing ProxySQL for Connection Pooling in PHP
  35. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.6-1.4 Is Now Available
  36. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 47: MySQL 8.0.12 and It’s Time To Submit!
  37. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments and Read Replicas
  38. Percona Monitoring and Management 1.13.0 Is Now Available
  39. Saving With MyRocks in The Cloud

July 2018

  1. Webinar: Migrating to AWS Aurora, Monitoring AWS Aurora with PMM
  2. Upcoming Webinar Tuesday, 7/31: Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures
  3. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.16-2.14 Is Now Available
  4. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 46: OSCON Recap, Google Site Reliability Workbook
  5. Tuning InnoDB Primary Keys
  6. Webinar Thursday, July 27, 2018: MongoDB Sharding 101 – Geo-Partitioning
  7. Webinar Weds 7/25: XA Transactions
  8. InnoDB Cluster in a Nutshell Part 3: MySQL Shell
  9. Webinar Wed 7/19: MongoDB Sharding
  10. Webinar Wed 7/18: MariaDB 10.3 vs. MySQL 8.0
  11. Why Consumer SSD Reviews are Useless for Database Performance Use Case
  12. ProxySQL 1.4.9 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now in the Percona Repository
  13. InnoDB Cluster in a Nutshell: Part 2 MySQL Router
  14. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 45: OSCON and Percona Live Europe 2018 Call for Papers
  15. On MySQL and Intel Optane performance
  16. Why MySQL Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers Are Bad For Performance
  17. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.5-1.3 Is Now Available
  18. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD
  19. When Database Warm Up is Not Really UP
  20. Percona Live Europe 2018 Call for Papers is Now Open
  21. MySQL InnoDB Cluster in a nutshell Part 1: Group Replication
  22. Percona Toolkit 3.0.11 Is Now Available
  23. Another Day, Another Data Leak
  24. Configuring PMM Monitoring for MongoDB Cluster
  25. How to Set Up Replication Between AWS Aurora and an External MySQL Instance
  26. Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance
  27. Fixing ER_MASTER_HAS_PURGED_REQUIRED_GTIDS when pointing a slave to a different master

June 2018

  1. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 44: MongoDB 4.0 and Facebook MyRocks
  2. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.22-29.26 Is Now Available
  3. MySQL 8.0 Hot Rows with NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED
  4. Faster Point In Time Recovery (PITR) in PostgreSQL Using a Delayed Standby
  5. What To Do When MySQL Runs Out of Memory
  6. Percona Monitoring and Management 1.12.0 Is Now Available
  7. Scaling PostgreSQL with PgBouncer: You May Need a Connection Pooler
  8. Webinar 6/28: Securing Database Servers From External Attacks
  9. MongoDB Explain – Using PMM-QAN for MongoDB Query Analytics
  10. Webinar 6/27: MySQL Troubleshooting Best Practices: Monitoring the Production Database Without Killing Performance
  11. Running Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes/OpenShift
  12. MongoDB Transactions: Your Very First Transaction with MongoDB 4.0
  13. Webinar Tues 6/26: MariaDB Server 10.3
  14. Percona XtraBackup 2.4.12 Is Now Available
  15. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 43: Polyglots, Security and DataOps.Barcelona
  16. MongoDB Compass – Community Version
  17. Lock Down: Enforcing SELinux with Percona XtraDB Cluster
  18. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.15-2.13 Is Now Available
  19. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.40-26.25 Is Now Available
  20. Is Serverless Just a New Word for Cloud-Based?
  21. Webinar: How to Analyze and Tune MySQL Queries for Better Performance
  22. InnoDB Buffer Pool Resizing: Chunk Change
  23. Webinar: Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 Tutorial Part 2
  24. Percona Database Performance Blog Commenting Issues
  25. Webinar Tues 19/6: MySQL: Scaling and High Availability – Production Experience from the Last Decade(s)
  26. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 42: Security Focus on Redis and Docker a Timely Reminder to Stay Alert
  27. Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc
  28. Percona Monitoring and Management: Look After Your pmm-data Container
  29. What is the Top Cause of Application Downtime Today?
  30. Zone Based Sharding in MongoDB
  31. Webinar Thurs 6/14: MongoDB Backup and Recovery Field Guide
  32. Webinar: Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting Methodologies for Databases
  33. PXC loves firewalls (and System Admins loves iptables)
  34. ProxySQL Experimental Feature: Native ProxySQL Clustering
  35. Understanding PMM QAN – Graphs & Metrics
  36. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 41: Reflecting on GitHub’s Contribution to Open Source Database
  37. Using gh-ost with Amazon Aurora for MySQL
  38. Call for Questions: Webinar with MySQL Benchmarking Experts
  39. Troubleshooting MySQL Concurrency Issues with Load Testing Tools Webinar: Q & A
  40. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 40: a Peak at Blockchain, Lots of MariaDB News, then Back on the Road

May 2018

  1. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.22-22 Is Now Available
  2. Don’t Drown in your Data Lake
  3. MongoDB: Deploy a Replica Set with Transport Encryption (part 3/3)
  4. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.40-84.0 Is Now Available
  5. MySQL Test Framework for Percona XtraDB Cluster
  6. Deploying PMM on DigitalOcean
  7. Webinar: MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, ProxySQL, Kubernetes: How they work together
  8. Using dbdeployer to manage MySQL, Percona Server and MariaDB sandboxes
  9. Setting up PMM on Google Compute Engine in 15 minutes or less
  10. Percona Monitoring and Management 1.11.0 Is Now Available
  11. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.4-1.2 Is Now Available
  12. Deploy a MongoDB Replica Set with Transport Encryption (Part 2)
  13. Percona Toolkit 3.0.10 Is Now Available
  14. ProxySQL 1.4.8 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now in the Percona Repository
  15. Upcoming Webinar Thursday, 5/24: What’s New in MongoDB 3.6
  16. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.20-3.11 Is Now Available
  17. Webinar Wed, 5/23: Troubleshooting MySQL Concurrency Issues with Load Testing Tools
  18. Capturing Per-Process Metrics with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  19. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.60-38.12 Is Now Available
  20. Deploy a MongoDB Replica Set with Transport Encryption (Part 1)
  21. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: MySQL XA Transactions
  22. About ZFS Performance
  23. Installing MySQL 8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in Five Minutes
  24. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 39: a valuable time spent at rootconf.in
  25. Why We’ve Deprecated MongoRocks in Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6
  26. Does the Version Number Matter?
  27. Deploying PMM on Linode: Your $5-Per-Month Monitoring Solution
  28. How to Enable Amazon RDS Remote Access
  29. Webinar Wednesday, May 9, 2018: MySQL Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  30. How Binary Logs Affect MySQL 8.0 Performance
  31. How Binary Logs (and Filesystems) Affect MySQL Performance
  32. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 38: Percona Live Europe 2018 and PostgreSQL
  33. Percona Live 2018 Community Report
  34. Q&A: "Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 and ProxySQL for Your High Availability Needs" Webinar
  35. Causes and Workarounds for Slave Performance Too Slow with Row-Based Events
  36. ProxySQL Query Rewrite Use Case
  37. MongoDB Rollback in replicaset
  38. Webinar Thursday May 3, 2018: Running MongoDB in Production (Part 3)
  39. ClickHouse Meetup in Salt Lake City

April 2018

  1. MyRocks Performance
  2. Keep Sensitive Data Secure in a Replication Setup
  3. This Week In Data with Colin Charles 37: Percona Live 2018 Wrap Up
  4. MySQL 8.0 GA: Quality or Not?
  5. The Evolution of the DBA in an "As-A-Service" World
  6. MySQL Community Awards Winners 2018
  7. Percona Live 2018: Closing Ceremony with Lightning Talks
  8. Percona Live 2018: POLARDB, an InnoDB Based Shared-Everything Storage Solution
  9. Percona Live 2018: Securing Access to Facebook’s Databases
  10. Percona Live 2018: Migrating to Vitess at (Slack) Scale
  11. Percona Live 2018 Keynotes, Day Two
  12. Percona Live 2018 Sessions: Ghostferry – the Swiss Army Knife of Live Data Migrations with Minimum Downtime
  13. Percona Live 2018 Sessions: Microsoft Built MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB for the Cloud
  14. Percona Live 2018 Sessions: Query Optimizer – MySQL vs. PostgreSQL
  15. Percona Live 2018 Sessions: MySQL at Twitter
  16. Percona Live 2018 Keynotes, Day One
  17. Percona Partners with Microsoft and Mesosphere To Help Enterprises Optimize and Maintain DBaaS Environments
  18. Percona Expands Services Offerings with PostgreSQL Support
  19. Percona’s New Services and Software Products Help Organizations Achieve Performant, Durable Database Environments
  20. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.3-1.1 Is Now Available
  21. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.21-21 Is Now Available with Increased Built-In Security Enhancements
  22. Percona XtraBackup 2.4.11 Is Now Available
  23. Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk: Data Integrity at Scale with Alexis Guajardo
  24. Check Out the Percona Live 2018 Live Stream!
  25. This Week In Data with Colin Charles 36: Percona Live 2018
  26. The Final Countdown: Are You Ready for Percona Live 2018?
  27. Percona Toolkit 3.0.9 Is Now Available
  28. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.10.0 Is Now Available
  29. Sysbench-tpcc Supports PostgreSQL (No, Really This Time)
  30. Congratulations to Our Friends at Oracle with the MySQL 8.0 GA Release!
  31. Why Analyze Raw MySQL Query Logs?
  32. Restore a MongoDB Logical Backup
  33. Webinar Thursday, April 19, 2018: Running MongoDB in Production, Part 1
  34. Using Hints to Analyze Queries
  35. Webinar: Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 Tutorial
  36. Binlog and Replication Improvements in Percona Server for MySQL
  37. ProxySQL 1.4.7 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now in the Percona Repository
  38. Webinar Tuesday April 17, 2018: Which Amazon Cloud Technology Should You Chose? RDS? Aurora? Roll Your Own?
  39. MongoDB Replica Set Tag Sets
  40. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 35: Percona Live 18 final countdown and a roundup of recent news
  41. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.14-2.12 Is Now Available
  42. Flashback: Another Take on Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) in MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server
  43. Percona Monitoring and Management 1.9.1 Is Now Available
  44. Containerizing Databases at New Relic with Joshua Galbraith and Bryant Vinisky
  45. ProxySQL Admin Support for Multiple Clusters
  46. Calling All Polyglots: Percona Live 2018 Keynote Schedule Now Available!
  47. Migrating Database Charsets to utf8mb4
  48. Webinar Thursday, April 12, 2018: MySQL Test Framework for Troubleshooting
  49. Starting MongoDB Database Software
  50. MongoDB Sharding: Are Chunks Balanced (Part 1)?
  51. Free, Fast MongoDB Hot Backup with Percona Server for MongoDB
  52. How to Handle pt-table-checksum Errors
  53. Percona Live Europe 2018 – Save the Date!
  54. Managing MongoDB Bulk Deletes and Inserts
  55. Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk: The Accidental DBA with Jenni Snyder
  56. Performance Schema for MySQL Troubleshooting Webinar: Q & A
  57. Percona Monitoring and Management 1.9.0 Is Now Available
  58. Pattern Matching Queries vs. Full-Text Indexes
  59. Leveraging ProxySQL with AWS Aurora to Improve Performance
  60. How to Implement ProxySQL with AWS Aurora
  61. Plot MySQL Data in Real Time Using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  62. Migrate to Amazon RDS Using Percona Xtrabackup
  63. MongoDB Data at Rest Encryption Using eCryptFS

March 2018

  1. Multi-Source Replication Performance with GTID
  2. MongoDB 3.6 Retryable Writes . . . Retryable Writes
  3. Percona XtraBackup 2.4.10 Is Now Available
  4. Analyze MySQL Audit Logs with ClickHouse and ClickTail
  5. Using ProxySQL and VIRTUAL Columns to Solve ORM Issues
  6. Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk: Databases Have Forgotten About Single Node Performance, A Wrongheaded Trade-Off with Mat Arye
  7. Percona XtraDB Cluster on Amazon GP2 Volumes
  8. Purging Binary Logs From Master
  9. Webinar Thursday March 29, 2018: Effective Testing for Live Applications
  10. ANALYZE TABLE Is No Longer a Blocking Operation
  11. Webinar Wednesday, March 28, 2018: ZFS with MySQL
  12. New MySQL 8.0 innodb_dedicated_server Variable Optimizes InnoDB from the Get-Go
  13. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 33: Reporting from FOSSASIA 2018 and Azure Announces Database Services for MySQL and PostgreSQL
  14. The Anatomy of a MongoDB Replica Set
  15. Tips to Optimize MongoDB
  16. Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk: Deep Dive into the RDS PostgreSQL Universe with Jignesh Shah
  17. FLUSH and LOCK Handling in Percona XtraDB Cluster
  18. Using Different Mount Points on PMM Docker Deployments
  19. Percona Blog Poll: What Percona Software Are You Using?
  20. Webinar: Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 with ProxySQL for Your MySQL High Availability and Clustering Needs
  21. MySQL Asynchronous Replication, Percona XtraDB Cluster, and log-slave-updates
  22. How to Speed Up Pattern Matching Queries
  23. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.19-3.10 Is Now Available
  24. Percona Toolkit 3.0.8 Is Now Available
  25. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 32: Stack Overflow Developer Survey, SCALE16x and Interesting MySQL 8 Version Numbers
  26. Verifying Query Performance Using ProxySQL
  27. Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk: MongoDB for a High Volume Logistics Application with Eric Potvin
  28. Saw Percona at SCaLE 16x? Come See Even More at Percona Live 2018!
  29. Adding Custom Graphs and Dashboards to Percona Monitoring and Management
  30. Basic Internal Troubleshooting Tools for MySQL Server Webinar: Q & A
  31. Don’t Get Hit with a Database Disaster: Database Security Compliance
  32. Webinar Thursday, March 15, 2018: Basic External MySQL Troubleshooting Tools
  33. The Multi-Source GTID Replication Maze
  34. ProxySQL 1.4.6 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now in the Percona Repository
  35. Mass Upgrade MongoDB Versions: from 2.6 to 3.6
  36. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 31: Meltdown/Spectre Performance Regressions and Percona Live 2018
  37. Using the MongoDB 3.6 Expression Query Operator $expr
  38. Sneak Peek at Proxytop Utility
  39. Binlog Encryption with Percona Server for MySQL
  40. Migrating MySQL Users to Amazon RDS
  41. Using MongoDB 3.6 Change Streams
  42. Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk: Securing Your Data on PostgreSQL with Payal Singh
  43. Enabling InnoDB Tablespace Encryption on Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7
  44. Percona Monitoring and Management 1.8.1 Is Now Available
  45. Webinar Thursday March 8, 2018: How Percona Maintains Optimal Customer Health
  46. TPCC-Like Workload for Sysbench 1.0
  47. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.13-2.11 Is Now Available
  48. Webinar Tuesday March 6, 2018: Percona Software News and Roadmap Update
  49. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.21-29.26 Is Now Available
  50. Percona Monitoring and Management for MongoDB: Basic Graphs for a Good System Overview
  51. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 30: Schedule for Percona Live, and Tracking Those Missing Features
  52. Visualize This! MySQL Tools That Explain Queries
  53. Percona Toolkit 3.0.7 Is Now Available

February 2018

  1. Webinar Thursday March 1, 2018: Performance Schema for MySQL Troubleshooting
  2. Great Metrics Graphs: Percona Monitoring and Management vs. gnuplot
  3. Analyze Your Raw MySQL Query Logs with ClickHouse
  4. Percona Monitoring and Management 1.8.0 Available
  5. Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk: How to Use JSON in MySQL Wrong with Bill Karwin
  6. Catching Slow and Frequent Queries with ProxySQL
  7. MySQL Single Table Point-In-Time Recovery
  8. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.39-26.25 Is Now Available
  9. Webinar Tuesday February 27, 2018: Monitoring Amazon RDS with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  10. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 29: Percona Live Full Schedule, MariaDB Events, and a Matter of Compatibility
  11. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backups
  12. Percona Live 2018 Featured Talk – Scaling a High-Traffic Database: Moving Tables Across Clusters with Bryana Knight
  13. Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference Full Schedule Now Available
  14. Understand Your Prometheus Exporters with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  15. Archiving MySQL Tables in ClickHouse
  16. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.21-20 Is Now Available
  17. Why ZFS Affects MySQL Performance
  18. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 28: Percona Live, MongoDB Transactions and Spectre/Meltdown Rumble On
  19. ProxySQL 1.4.5 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now in the Percona Repository
  20. Troubleshooting MySQL Crashes Webinar: Q&A
  21. Amazon Aurora MySQL Monitoring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  22. Want IST Not SST for Node Rejoins? We Have a Solution!
  23. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.39-83.1 Is Now Available
  24. Webinar Thursday, February 15, 2018: Basic Internal Troubleshooting Tools for MySQL Server
  25. Does Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Support External Monitoring Services? Yes It Does!
  26. Collect PostgreSQL Metrics with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  27. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 27: Percona Live Tutorials Released and a Comprehensive Review of the FOSDEM MySQL DevRoom
  28. Fsync Performance on Storage Devices
  29. Tutorial Schedule for Percona Live 2018
  30. ProxySQL Query Cache: What It Is, How It Works
  31. Announcing Experimental Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Functionality via Percona Labs
  32. Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.8 Release Is Now Available
  33. Four Ways MySQL Executes GROUP BY
  34. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 26: Percona Live Schedule is Near Completion, FOSDEM Underway and a Percona Toolkit Use Case
  35. MyRocks Engine: Things to Know Before You Start

January 2018

  1. Percona Monitoring and Management 1.7.0 (PMM) Is Now Available
  2. Aurora Hash Join Optimization (with a Gentle Reminder on Lab Features)
  3. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.59-38.11 is Now Available
  4. MySQL Query Performance: Not Just Indexes
  5. Using MySQL 5.7 Generated Columns to Increase Query Performance
  6. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 Is Now Available
  7. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 25: Meltdown/Spectre still dominate, FOSDEM approaches and Timescale gets funding
  8. MySQL 8.0 RESOURCE_GROUP Overview
  9. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.1 Is Now Available
  10. Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 Is Now Available
  11. MySQL 8.0.4 RC: auth_socket Users Beware!
  12. Webinar Thursday, January 25, 2018: Troubleshooting MySQL Crashes
  13. 20-30% Performance Hit from the Spectre Bug Fix on Ubuntu
  14. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6 Beta is now available
  15. Webinar Wednesday, January 24, 2018: Differences between MariaDB and MySQL
  16. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0 Is Now Available
  17. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 24: more Meltdown, FOSDEM, Slack and reminiscing
  18. Does the Meltdown Fix Affect Performance for MySQL on Bare Metal?
  19. ProxySQL 1.4.4 and Updated proxysql-admin Tool Now in the Percona Repository
  20. Troubleshooting Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Metrics
  21. Updating/Deleting Rows From Clickhouse (Part 2)
  22. Webinar January 18, 2018: MySQL Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Part 2
  23. ProxySQL Firewalling
  24. Sneak Peek of the Percona Live 2018 Open Source Database Conference Breakout Sessions!
  25. Compare Current and Past Time Series Graphs in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
  26. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 23: CPU security continues to draw attention
  27. Insert Random Data into Tables Using mysql_random_data_load
  28. SQL – "CREATE TABLE AS SELECT" Statement
  29. Updating/Deleting Rows with ClickHouse (Part 1)
  30. Webinar Wednesday, January 10, 2018: Why We’re Excited About MySQL 8.0
  31. Using ioping to Evaluate Storage Performance for MySQL Workloads
  32. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.20-19 Is Now Available
  33. InnoDB Performance Optimization: Webinar Q & A
  34. This Week in Data with Colin Charles 22: CPU vulnerabilities and looking forward to 2018
  35. Meltdown and Spectre: CPU Security Vulnerabilities
  36. Percona Toolkit 3.0.6 Is Now Available
  37. Case in Point: A Year of Customer Experience with Percona
  38. Generated Columns and ProxySQL Instead of Referenced Tables

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