We recently conducted a survey of how Vitess is being used by the community. This blog post summarizes what we learned. "Vitess solves an existential threat for services which outgrow a single MySQL database." "Horizontal sharding helps us scale quickly, and the new generation execution plan, Gen4, enables us to support more SQL queries." "Vitess has allowed us to scale and step away from our dev-ops role, allowing us to focus on higher level and higher impact tooling and automation.

At Percona, we have always prioritized database performance as a critical factor in selecting database technologies. Recently, we have observed a concerning trend in the community edition of MySQL, where performance appears to be declining across major releases, specifically MySQL versions 5.7, 8.0, and 8.4. If you’re interested in learning more about these observations, we […]

We are excited to announce that Vitess now supports recursive Common Table Expressions (CTEs), marking another significant step in our journey to fully align with MySQL’s capabilities. Recursive CTEs, often a critical feature for complex query handling, allow for the execution of recursive queries within a single CTE. This addition brings more flexibility and power to developers using Vitess, especially those working with distributed databases. One of the key challenges in implementing recursive CTEs within a sharded environment is managing the distribution of data across multiple shards.

Take a look at the most convenient and user-friendly MySQL GUI tools (clients) that help you tackle a variety of database development, management, and administration tasks on macOS.

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Percona Operator for MySQL, based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), provides configuration to expose the ProxySQL, HAProxy, and the PXC instances themselves so that you can use Percona Toolkit to connect to MySQL from these endpoints externally. However, you can also create Kubernetes pods to run Percona Toolkit operations there instead if you do not […]

This article explains the SIGNED and UNSIGNED integer data types in MySQL and provides examples to illustrate when and how to use these integer data types effectively.

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The article covers the basic syntax of the MySQL INSERT statement and explains how to work with the INSERT command in the MySQL table using dbForge Studio for MySQL.

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In current times, there is a high degree of focus on ensuring the availability and recovery of your production data. This can be challenging at times when using DBaaS solutions in the public cloud space, for example, when using AWS Aurora. Relying solely on a single cloud provider for database services can pose significant risks. […]

Group replication is a fault-tolerant/highly available replication topology that ensures if the primary node goes down, one of the other candidates or secondary members takes over so write and read operations can continue without any interruptions. However, there are some scenarios where, due to outages, network partitions, or database crashes, the group membership could be broken, or we end […]

The usage of MySQL Router as a Middleware/Proxy/Router has increased along with the rise in MySQL InnoDB Cluster usage. While it is still relatively easy to use in production, monitoring it to stay informed about its current status is essential. This blog post will cover how to check and monitor MySQL routers, routes, and other […]