Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 11:00 am (PST) / 2:00 pm (EST) discuss Percona’s software news and roadmap, including Percona Server for MySQL and MongoDB, Percona XtraBackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Monitoring and Management.

Register Now During this webinar, Peter will talk about newly released features in Percona software, show a few quick demos and share with you highlights from the Percona open source software roadmap.

Peter will also talk about new developments in Percona commercial services, and …

The various MySQL User Groups or MySQL Meetups around the world are made of up of various groups of individuals that all have a passion for MySQL. Some are large and intense like San Francisco or Boston. Others are fun loving like Chicago or obviously vary hard working like Oklahoma City. I recommend for those of you that travel to connect with these groups. But there is one group that is a little special. They meet in a pub, upstairs in the back. There is a bar and bartender. The food is very good and the attendees very sharp. If you get a chance, visit the London MySQL Meetup

I had been in York a few days before and was invited by Ivan Zoratti, a long time institution of the MySQL Community and Meetup organizer to present on MySQL 8. I made it to The Lamb, a pub on Conduit street and made my way to the meeting room. I was greeted by the …

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Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.3 on April 21, 2017.

For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide.

This release includes several new graphs in dashboards related to InnoDB and MongoDB operation, as well as smaller fixes and improvements.

New in PMM Server

• PMM-649: Added the InnoDB Page Splits and InnoDB Page Reorgs graphs to the MySQL InnoDB Metrics Advanced dashboard.
• Added the following graphs to the MongoDB ReplSet dashboard:
  • Oplog Getmore Time
  • Oplog Operations
  • Oplog …

Please join Percona’s CEO and Founder, Peter Zaitsev on April 6th, 2017 at 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT (UTC-7) as he presents Best Practices Migrating to Open Source Databases.

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This is a high-level webinar that covers the history of enterprise open source database use. It addresses both the advantages companies see in using open source database technologies, as well as the fears and reservations they might have.

In this webinar, we will look at how to address such concerns to help get a migration commitment. We’ll cover picking the right project, selecting the right team to manage migration, and developing the right migration …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.2 on April 3, 2017.

For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide.

This release includes several new dashboards in Metrics Monitor, updated versions of software components used in PMM Server, and a number of small bug fixes.

Thank You to the Community!

We would like to mention some of the key contributors in this release, and thank the community for continued support of PMM:

• tcaxias for fixing our Docker deployment so that supervisor is PID 1
• pschultz who helped us improve the Disk Performance and Percona …

April is going to be a busy month for yours truly. First up is the big Oracle Users Groups show in Las Vegas Collaborate 17 at Mandalay Bay April 2nd through 6th. This show features over 1,250 session, thousands of attendees and me (with Kathy Forte) at the MySQL Demo Pod.

From there I am off to Yorkshire PHP where I am proud to be speaking at this new event on MySQL 8. That is on Saturday the 8th in York but I will head down south on the 11th for the London MySQL Meetup to talk more about MySQL 8.

Then it is the closest show to home for me, the final LoneStar PHP. I will be giving a talk on the basics of database programming with PHP.

The month …

Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 3.0.2 on March 27, 2017.

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools that perform a variety of MySQL and MongoDB server and system tasks too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source.

This release includes the following changes:

New Features

• PT-73: Added support for SSL connections to pt-mongodb-summary and pt-mongodb-query-digest
• 1642751: Enabled gathering of information about locks and transactions by pt-stalk using Performance Schema if it is enabled …

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 in Santa Clara, California is just around the corner: April 24-27, 2017. We’re busy getting things ready to make sure everybody gets the most out of their time there. As part of that, we have some news and a couple of outstanding offers for you!

$5 Percona Live Keynote Passes and
$101 101 Crash Courses

Keynote Speakers
We are extremely pleased with our keynote speakers this year. We have a wide assortment of industry leaders and experts presenting a great set of topics, with more to come! Below are some of our keynote presentations:

Day 1

• 9:00 AM – Peter Zaitsev, Percona: Welcome
• 9:20 AM – Eero Teerikorpi, …

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