Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.10 on March 30, 2018. This release is based on MySQL 5.7.19. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables …

Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on March 6, 2018 at 12:00 pm PST (UTC -8) / 3:00 pm EST (UTC -5) as Peter discusses Percona software news and what’s new in Percona open source software, including Percona Server for MySQL and MongoDB, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona XtraBackup, …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

The CFP for Percona Live Santa Clara 2018 closes December 22, 2017: please consider submitting as soon as possible. We want to make an early announcement of talks, so we’ll definitely do a first pass even before the CFP date closes. Keep in mind the expanded view of what we are after: it’s more than just MySQL and MongoDB. And don’t forget that with one day less, there will be intense competition to fit all the content in.

A new book on MySQL Cluster is out: Pro MySQL NDB Cluster by Jesper Wisborg Krogh and Mikiya Okuno. At 690 pages, it is a weighty tome, and something I fully plan on reading, considering I haven’t played with …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.10 on November 29, 2017. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, it drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

This release is the current GA …

Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.9 on November 29, 2017. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, it drives down …

This small article is about nicely depicting memory usage prior to OOM killers show.

I have started MySQL with:

/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64/bin/mysqld --no-defaults \
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=1G --innodb_log_file_size=1G --innodb_page_size=64K --early-plugin-load=keyring_file.so \ --keyring_file_data=/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64/mysql-keyring/keyring \
--log-bin=mysql-bin --log-slave-updates --server-id=1 --gtid-mode=ON --enforce-gtid-consistency --binlog-format=row --core-file --basedir=/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64 \
--tmpdir=/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64/data \
--datadir=/home/shahriyar.rzaev/XB_TEST/server_dir/PS131117-percona-server-5.7.19-17-linux-x86_64/data \
--plugin-load-add=tokudb=ha_tokudb.so …

Pepper.com, the world’s largest community deal platform, has selected Percona to manage its open source database performance.

Pepper.com’s around-the-clock community seeks and finds the best offers in fashion, electronics, traveling and much more. With 500 million page views, over 25 million users and over 65,000 user-submitted deals per month across communities in America, Europe and Asia, Pepper has quickly risen to be the largest community deal platform worldwide.

When Pepper.com’s primary MySQL database administrator left the company, Pepper decided to shift to a managed service to maintain uptime …

Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10am PT / 1pm ET (UTC-7) discuss the Percona roadmap, as well as what’s new in Percona open source software.

Reserve Your Spot

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. This discussion will cover …

This blog discusses newly added options for Percona XtraBackup 2.4.8 and how they can impact your database backups.

To avoid issues with MySQL 5.7 skipping the redo log for DDL, Percona XtraBackup has implemented three new options (

xtrabackup --lock-ddl

,

xtrabackup --lock-ddl-timeout

,

xtrabackup --lock-ddl-per-table

) that can be used to place MDL locks on tables while they are copied.

So why we need those options? Let’s discuss the process used to get there.

Originally, we found problems while running DDLs: Percona XtraBackup produced corrupted backups as described in two reports:

• …

Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.8 on July 24, 2017. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona …