‘Open Source Appreciation Day’ draws OpenStack, MySQL and CentOS faithful
210 people registered for the inaugural “Open Source Appreciation Day” March 31 in Santa Clara, Calif. The event will be held each year at Percona Live henceforth.To kick off the Percona Live MySQL...
View ArticleMySQL Audit Plugin now available in Percona Server 5.5 and 5.6
The new Percona Server 5.5.37-35.0 and Percona Server 5.6.17-65.0-56, announced yesterday (May 6), both include the open source version of the MySQL Audit Plugin. The MySQL Audit Plugin is used to log...
View ArticleDatabase auditing alternatives for MySQL
Database auditing is the monitoring of selected actions of database users. It doesn’t protect the database in case privileges are set incorrectly, but it can help the administrator detect...
View ArticleA technical WebScaleSQL review and comparison with Percona Server
The recent WebScaleSQL announcement has made quite a splash in the MySQL community over the last few weeks, and with a good reason. The collaboration between the major MySQL-at-scale users to develop a...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.6.17-66.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.17-66.0 on June 11, 2014. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.Based on MySQL 5.6.17, including all the...
View ArticlePercona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.4 release
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.4.Changelog: * Added login-path support to Nagios plugins with MySQL client 5.6 (bug 1338549) * Added a new threshold option...
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...
View ArticlePercona 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”...
View Article‘Open Source Appreciation Day’ draws OpenStack, MySQL and CentOS faithful
210 people registered for the inaugural “Open Source Appreciation Day” March 31 in Santa Clara, Calif. The event will be held each year at Percona Live henceforth.To kick off the Percona Live MySQL...
View ArticleMySQL Audit Plugin now available in Percona Server 5.5 and 5.6
The new Percona Server 5.5.37-35.0 and Percona Server 5.6.17-65.0-56, announced yesterday (May 6), both include the open source version of the MySQL Audit Plugin. The MySQL Audit Plugin is used to log...
View ArticleDatabase auditing alternatives for MySQL
Database auditing is the monitoring of selected actions of database users. It doesn’t protect the database in case privileges are set incorrectly, but it can help the administrator detect...
View ArticleA technical WebScaleSQL review and comparison with Percona Server
The recent WebScaleSQL announcement has made quite a splash in the MySQL community over the last few weeks, and with a good reason. The collaboration between the major MySQL-at-scale users to develop a...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.6.17-66.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.17-66.0 on June 11, 2014. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.Based on MySQL 5.6.17, including all the...
View ArticlePercona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.4 release
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.4.Changelog: * Added login-path support to Nagios plugins with MySQL client 5.6 (bug 1338549) * Added a new threshold option...
View ArticleGalera replication – how to recover a PXC cluster
Galera replication for MySQL brings not only the new, great features to our ecosystem, but also introduces completely new maintenance techniques. Are you concerned about adding such new complexity to...
View ArticleMulti-Valued INSERTs, AUTO_INCREMENT & Percona XtraDB Cluster
A common migration path from standalone MySQL/Percona Server to a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) environment involves some measure of time where one node in the new cluster has been configured as a slave...
View ArticlePercona XtraBackup 2.2.4 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.4 on September 12th 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.Percona XtraBackup...
View ArticleFacebook MySQL database engineers ready for Percona Live London 2014
With 1.28 billion active users, Facebook MySQL database engineers are active and extremely valuable contributors to the global MySQL community. So naturally they are also active participants of Percona...
View ArticlePercona XtraBackup 2.2.7 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.7 on December 10, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories.Percona XtraBackup enables...
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