Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.13-4 on January 17, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release contains a fix for a critical bug that prevented Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-26 from being upgraded to version 8.0.13-3 if there are more than around 1000 tables, or if the maximum allocated InnoDB table ID is around 1000. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.13-4 is now the current GA release in the 8.0 series.

All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all the  …

Please join Percona’s Chief Technology Officer, Vadim Tkachenko, as he presents How to Rock with MyRocks on Thursday, January 17th at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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MyRocks is a new storage engine from Facebook and is available in Percona Server for MySQL. In what cases will you want to use it? We will check different workloads and when MyRocks is most suitable for you. Also, as for any new engine, it’s important to set it up and tune it properly. So, we will review the most important settings to pay attention to.

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ProxySQL 1.4.13, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.

ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL and its forks (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created ProxySQL for DBAs as a means of solving complex replication topology issues.

The ProxySQL 1.4.13 source and binary packages available at https://percona.com/downloads/proxysql …

Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.13 for January 9, 2019.

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL®, MongoDB® and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. With over 1,000,000 downloads, Percona Toolkit supports Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL®, MariaDB®, Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB.

Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source. You can download packages  …

Please join Percona’s MySQL Product Manager, Tyler Duzan as he presents Walkthrough of Percona Server MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, January 9th at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM (UTC-4).

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Our Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 software is the company’s free, enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL Community Edition. The software includes all of the great features in MySQL Community Edition 8.0. Additionally, it includes enterprise-class features from Percona made available free and open source. …

Recently, I encountered a situation where MySQL gave error messages that I had never seen before:

2018-12-12T14:36:45.571440Z 0 [ERROR] Error log throttle: 150 'Can't create thread to handle new connection' error(s) suppressed
2018-12-12T14:36:45.571456Z 0 [ERROR] Can't create thread to handle new connection(errno= 11)
2018-12-12T14:37:47.748575Z 0 [ERROR] Error log throttle: 940 'Can't create thread to handle new connection' error(s) suppressed
2018-12-12T14:37:47.748595Z 0 [ERROR] Can't create thread to handle new connection(errno= 11)

I was thinking maybe we hit some

ulimit

 limitations or similar, but all the usual suspects were set high enough, and we were not even close to them.

After googling and discussing with the customer, I found they had had similar issues in the past, and I learned something new. Actually it is relatively new, as it has been around for a few years but is not that well known. It …

Percona has released Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 as Generally Available (GA). Our Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 software is the company’s free, enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL Community Edition. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all of the great features in MySQL Community Edition 8.0. It also includes enterprise-class features from Percona made available free and open source. Percona Server for MySQL is trusted by thousands of enterprises to meet their need for a mature, proven, cost-effective MySQL solution that delivers excellent performance and reliability.

Downloads are available on the Percona Website and in the Percona Software Repositories.

Features in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0

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Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.13-3 on December 21, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 8.0.13, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.13-3 is now the current GA release in the 8.0 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all the features available in MySQL 8.0 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. For a list of …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-27 on December 19, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.24, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.24-27 is now the current GA release in the 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

If you’re currently using Percona Server for MySQL 5.7, Percona recommends upgrading to this version of 5.7 prior to upgrading to Percona Server for …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.4 on December 10, 2018. 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 …