Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 packages have been released into our repositories.  Recent versions of Percona Server for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, Percona XtraBackup,  Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Toolkit, and the PMM Client can now be automatically installed via Redhats dnf utility.

How to install RHEL 8

Visit https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux and follow the instructions.  If you have a paid subscription,  you will be able to download the RHEL 8 DVD ISO and use this to install the operating system on a physical or virtual machine.   You may also signup for a free 30-day trial.

Once installed, you will need to register the instance with Redhat using subscription-manager in order to update your instance.   While logged in …

We are pleased to announce the release of PMM 2 Beta!  PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance.

• Query Analytics:
  • MySQL and MongoDB – Slow log, PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, and Profiler data sources
  • Support for large environments – default view all queries from all instances
  • Filtering – display only the results matching filters such as the schema name or the server instance
  • Sorting and more columns – now sort by any column.
  • Modify Columns – Add one or more columns for any field exposed by the data source
  …

Percona Live provides the open source database community with an opportunity to discover and discuss the latest open source trends, technologies, and innovations. The conference includes the best and brightest innovators and influencers in the open source database industry.

This year, Percona Live is being held at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas from May 28-30, 2019.

Pythian is proud to be a Silver Sponsor this year, with a full force of our technical experts speaking on a variety of subjects and technologies. These are sessions you won’t want to miss!

If you’re attending, make sure you swing by our booth and meet the Pythian crew. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you have about open source, cloud or anything data related. Our speakers will also be covering the event on social media and we’ll recap the event and their talks here on the Pythian …

We are pleased to announce the launch of PMM 2.0.0-alpha2, Percona’s second Alpha release of our long-awaited PMM 2 project! In this release, you’ll find support for MongoDB Metrics and Query Analytics – watch for sharp edges as we expect to find a lot of bugs!  We’ve also expanded our existing support of MySQL from our first Alpha to now include MySQL Slow Log as a data source for Query Analytics, which enhances the Query Detail section to include richer query metadata.

• MongoDB Metrics – You can now launch PMM 2 against MongoDB and gather metrics and query data!
• MongoDB Query Analytics – Data source from MongoDB Profiler is here!
• MySQL Query Analytics
  • Queries source – MySQL Slow Log is here!
  • Sorting and more …

Conglomeration, Collaboration and Celebration of Database Administrators

Founders of Mydbops envisioned contributing knowledge back to the community. This vision is shaping up in its 3rd edition of the Meetup held on Saturday the 27th of April, 2019. This meetup edition had drawn a good amount of members from the Open Source Database Administrative Community, to the venue.  The core agenda was set on “High Availability concepts in ProxySQL and Maxscale”. There were also presentations in MongoDB Internals along with MySQL Orchestrator and its implementation excellence at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.)

The participants from various organisations like MariaDB, TeleDNA, CTS, OLA, Infosys, …

We are pleased to announce the launch of PMM 2.0.0-alpha1, Percona’s first Alpha release of our long-awaited PMM 2 project! We focused exclusively on MySQL support in our first Alpha (because we wanted to show progress sooner rather than later), and you’ll find updated MySQL dashboards along with enhancements to Query Analytics. We’ve also added better visibility regarding which services are registered with PMM Server, the client-side addition of a new agent called pmm-agent, and finally PMM Server is now exposing an API!

• Query Analytics
  • Support for large environments – default view all queries from all instances
  • Filtering – display only the results matching filters – MySQL schema name, MySQL server instance
  • Sorting and more columns – now sort by any …

There’s just one week to go before the first of this year’s Percona University events in South America. We’re really pleased with the lineup for all three events. We’re also incredibly happy with the response that we have had from the community. While we realize that a free event is… well… free… you are still giving up your time and travel. We place great value on that and we’re making sure that you’ll be hearing quality technical talks from Percona and our guest speakers. Most of the talks will be presented in Spanish – Portuguese in Brazil – although slides will be made available in English.

In fact, the events have been so popular that it’s quite possible that by the time you read this we’ll be operating a wait list for Montevideo …

MySQL 8.0 provides another way to handle JSON documents, actually in a "Not only SQL" (NoSQL) approach... In other words, if you need/want to manage JSON documents (collections) in a non-relational manner, with CRUD (acronym for Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations then you can use MySQL 8.0! Did you know that?

We started hosting Percona University a few years back with the aim of sharing knowledge with the open source database community. The events are held in cities across the world. The next Percona University days will visiting Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, in a lightning tour at the end of April.

• Montevideo, Tuesday, April 23 2019 from 8.30am to 6.30pm
• Buenos Aires, Thursday, April 25 2019 from 1.30pm to 10.3pm
• São Paulo, Saturday, April 27 2019 from 9.30am to 7.30pm

What is Percona University?

It is a technical …

I strongly believe in the community.

Communities are the real strength of open source. Not just the theoretical ability to study, modify and share code – but the fact that other people out there are doing these things. Creating a base of knowledge and a network of relations.These can become work relationships, valuable discussions, open source tools, or even friendships.

That is why, when I heard that several people from the Percona support team will soon be in London, I badly wanted to organise an event.

Actually, there was an interesting coincidence. When I asked Sveta Smirnova if anyone from Percona lives in London, I already knew I wanted to organise an event with this new meetup group I’ve started: …