MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) is a bit limited related to support of older MySQL versions. So you should consider the following release matrix:

I just encountered the problem described in the title, on a server I don’t have enough free space for create a backup as long the replica is catching up, because the relay logs eats all the available free space as the IO thread works faster than the SQL thread in the replication. What to do? […]

Network is a major part of a database infrastructure. However, often performance benchmarks are done on a local machine, where a client and a server are collocated – I am guilty myself. This is done to simplify the setup and to exclude one more variable (the networking part), but with this we also miss looking at how network affects performance.

The network is even more important for clustering products like Percona XtraDB Cluster and MySQL Group Replication. Also, we are working on our Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator for Kubernetes and OpenShift, where network performance is critical for overall …

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The X DevAPI allows you to work with JSON documents and SQL tables at the same time. Furthermore, the CRUD style API is more intuitive than SQL statements for some programmers. Either way, the X DevAPI allows you to mix JSON documents, SQL tables, CRUD methods, and SQL statements to give you the best of all worlds. In MySQL Connector/Python, the X DevAPI is implemented in the mysqlx module.

This blog will look at how MySQL Connector/Python handles expressions, and how you in version 8.0.14 and later need to use the mysqlx.expr() method to explicitly define expressions.

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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.7.25-28 on February 18, 2019. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

This release is based on MySQL 5.7.25 and includes all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server 5.7.25-28 is now the current GA (Generally Available) release in the 5.7 series.

All software developed by Percona is open-source and free.

In this release, Percona Server introduces the …

Migrating from Oracle to MySQL/Percona Server is not a trivial task. Although it is getting easier, especially with the arrival of MySQL 8.0 and Percona announced Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 GA. Aside from planning for your migration from Oracle to Percona Server, you must ensure that you understand the purpose and functionality for why it has to be Percona Server.

This blog will focus on Migrating from Oracle to Percona Server as its specific target database of choice. There's a page in the Oracle website about SQL Developer Supplementary Information for MySQL Migrations which can be used as a reference for the planned migration. This blog will not cover the overall process of migration, as it is a …

Ahead of the PCI move to deprecate the use of ‘early TLS’, we’ve previously taken steps to disable TLSv1.0.

Unfortunately at that time we encountered some issues which led us to rollback these changes. This was to allow users of operating systems that did not – yet – support TLSv1.1 or higher to download Percona packages over TLSv1.0.

Since then, we have been tracking our usage statistics for older operating systems that don’t support TLSv1.1 or higher at https://repo.percona.com. We now receive very few legitimate requests for these downloads.

Consequently,  we are ending support for TLSv1.0 on all Percona web properties.

The importance of online code editing platforms cannot be overemphasized. As much as we love our local IDE's, one too many times we find ourselves needing to quickly share and or collaborate with a friend or colleague in our local projects.

In cases like this, online playgrounds give us that added functionality to write and run codes as well as share snippets and have colleagues test it out and give us feedback. In this post, we'll be looking at the top 7 online code editors for JavaScript in no particular order.

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CodePen is an online social development environment for front-end developers. It comes fully equipped with all the features you'll need to build, test, share, collaborate and even deploy your websites.

Plans and Features CodePen plans are flexible enough to accommodate whatever needs you might have. First, there are individual and …

A Guest Post from Jordan Raine, Clio

Jordan Raine is a staff software developer at Clio, the leading provider of legal practice management, client relationship management, and client intake software. Clio is dedicated to helping lawyers meet client needs and run efficient, profitable practices. Jordan wrote this post to help mySQL developers save time/effort and ultimately improve their customers' experience. 

Unlike most code a developer writes, writing SQL only requires us to describe what data we want and not how to get it. When given a query like SELECT id, author_id FROM posts WHERE author_id = 123 ORDER BY id, you needn’t concern yourself with what indexes are used (if any), what type of sort is used, or any other number of implementation details. Instead, the query optimizer handles this for you. This keeps SQL concise and …

More than 3 weeks passed since my previous review of public MySQL bug reports I am subscribed to, so it's time to present some of the bugs I've considered interesting in January, 2019.

As usual, I'll review them starting from the oldest and try to summarize my feelings about these bugs at the end of this post. Here they are:

• Bug #93806 - "Document error about ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE". Years pass, but fine MySQL manual still does not explain some cases of InnoDB locking properly. Xiaobin Lin found yet another case that it does not explain properly. Or, maybe, the manual is correct and the problem in …