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My 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 would...
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Using the new spatial functions in MySQL 5.6 for geo-enabled applications
Geo-enabled (or location enabled) applications are very common nowadays and many of them use MySQL. The common tasks for such applications are:Find all points of interests (i.e. coffee shops) around...
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New MySQL features, related technologies at Percona Live London
The upcoming Percona Live London conference, November 11-12, features quite a number of talks about the latest MySQL features and related technologies. There will be a lots of talks about the new MySQL...
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Percona Server 5.6.14-62.0 is now available
Percona Server version 5.6.14-62.0Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.14-62.0 on October 24th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software...
View ArticlePercona Live London 2013 and Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014
Thanks to everyone who participated in Percona Live London 2013. We had a great event with nearly 20% higher attendance versus 2012. This year’s conference featured participation by representatives...
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MySQL Error: Too many connections
We have always received quite few questions here at Percona Support on how to avoid the dreaded “Too many connections” error, as well as what is the recommended value for max_connections. So, in this...
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Percona Server 5.6.15-63.0 is now available
Percona Server version 5.6.15-63.0Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.15-63.0 on December 19th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software...
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Percona Live MySQL Conference Sessions Announced
I’m very pleased to announce that the breakout session and tutorial schedules for the third annual Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 are now online. The conference will be at The Hyatt...
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FOSDEM 2014 MySQL & Friends devroom
FOSDEM is a free, yearly event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It takes place in Brussels, Belgium each February.10 years ago now, the first MySQL...
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Percona Server: Improve Scalability with Percona Thread Pool
By default, for every client connection the MySQL server spawns a separate thread which will process all statements for this connection. This is the ‘one-thread-per-connection’ model. It’s simple and...
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Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 GA release now available
Percona is pleased to announce the first General Availability release of the leading open source High Availability solution for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on January 30, 2014. Binaries are...
View ArticleClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster Improves Management and Monitoring
ClusterControl for Percona XtraDB Cluster is now available in three different versions thanks to our partnership with Severalnines. ClusterControl will make it simpler to manage and monitor Percona...
View ArticleBefore every release: A glimpse into Percona XtraDB Cluster CI testing
I spoke last month at linux.conf.au 2014 in Perth, Australia, and one of my sessions focused on the “Continuous Integration (CI) testing of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)” at the Developer,Testing,...
View ArticleHow to monitor ALTER TABLE progress in MySQL
While working on a recent support issue as a Percona Support Engineer, I got one question from a customer asking how to monitor ALTER TABLE progress. Actually, for MySQL 5.5 and prior versions, it’s...
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Engineer duo from Google, LinkedIn join again for InnoDB talks
Google senior systems engineer Jeremy Cole is once again teaming with LinkedIn senior software engineer Davi Arnaut for two InnoDB-focused sessions at the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference and...
View ArticleNew mydumper 0.6.1 release offers performance and usability features
One of the tasks within Percona Remote DBA is to ensure we have reliable backups with minimal impact. To accomplish this, one of the tools our team uses is called mydumper. We use mydumper for logical...
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Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0 is now available
Percona Server version 5.6.16-64.0Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0 on March 10th, 2014 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software...
View ArticleIntroducing backup locks in Percona Server
TL;DR version: The backup locks feature introduced in Percona Server 5.6.16-64.0 is a lightweight alternative to FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK and can be used to take both physical and logical backups...
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Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.2, now with Amazon RDS support
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.2.Changelog: * Added Nagios plugin and Cacti template for Amazon RDS * Added Nagios config template to the documentation *...
View ArticleHeartbleed: Separating FAQ From FUD
If you’ve been following this blog (my colleague, David Busby, posted about it yesterday) or any tech news outlet in the past few days, you’ve probably seen some mention of the “Heartbleed”...
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