Learn how to build a products listing application with Golang and a MySQL database.

Learn how to build a products listing application with Golang and a MySQL database.

2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). We’ve added and improved many features, including Alerting and Backup Management. These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. Percona’s co-Founder Peter Zaitsev wrote a detailed post about migration from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics, One of the most significant differences in …

Let’s look at how you can run Percona databases on Kubernetes, the easy way.

Chances are that if you are using the latest Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) version, you have seen the availability of the new Percona Database as a Service (DBaaS). If not, go and get a glimpse of the fantastic feature with our docs on DBaaS – Percona Monitoring and Management.

Now, if you like it and wanna give it a try! (Yay!), but you don’t wanna deal with Kubernetes, (nay)o worries; we have a tool for you. Introducing the Percona DBaaS Infrastructure Creator, or Percona My Database as a Service (MyDBaaS).

My Database as a Service

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Mysql Database Service (MDS) is a fully managed, native Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service. Being part of OCI means that we can tap into the alarm and notification services to help manage our MDS instances. In this post, we will show how to create an alarm when an MDS instance becomes unavailable.

What does the MySQL 5.7 EOL means for your database? Learn considerations to upgrade 8.0 and how PlanetScale can help you upgrade with no downtime or data loss.

Learn how to build a Nest.js API connect it to a MySQL database add a schema and data and and run database queries.

Learn how to build a Nest.js API connect it to a MySQL database add a schema and data and and run database queries.

When we need to upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 replica.

This article will explain how to set up MySQL 8 as a replica from an existing MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup.

In my lab, we have two test nodes:

PRIMARY:  mysql57 (192.168.56.111)    with   Percona Server 5.7 and  xtrabackup 2.4 installed
REPLICA:  mysql8    (192.168.56.113)   with  Percona Server 8  and   xtrabackup 8.0 installed

0. Pre-flight check with MySQL upgrade checker utility

Let’s run the MySQL upgrade checker utility to verify whether MySQL 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade.

MySQL  localhost  JS > util.checkForServerUpgrade('root@localhost:3306', {"password":"####", …

MySQL Book Review: Efficient MySQL Performance from Daniel Nichter, O'Reilly, 2021.