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

Percona Live Europe Dublin

Have you registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin? We’ve more or less finalized the schedule, and the conference grid looks 100% full. We’re four weeks away, so I suggest you register ASAP!

I should also mention that no event can be pulled off without sponsors, so thank you sponsors of Percona Live Europe 2017. I sincerely hope to see more sign up. Feel free to ask me more about it, or just check out our sponsor prospectus.

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.19-17 on August 31, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Based on MySQL 5.7.19, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2 on August 25, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Based on MySQL 5.6.37, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.57-38.9 on August 23, 2017. Based on MySQL 5.5.57, including all of its bug fixes, Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.57-38.9 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server for MySQL is open-source and free. You can find release details in the 5.5.57-38.9 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

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In this post I’ll answer questions I received in my Wednesday, July 19, 2017, webinar Learning MySQL 5.7!

First, thank you all who attended the webinar. The link to the slides and the webinar recording can be found here.

I received a number of interesting questions in the webinar that I’ve followed up with below.

Would there be a big difference on passing from 5.1 to 5.6 before going to 5.7 or, at this point, would it be roughly the same?

The biggest risk of jumping between versions, in this case 5.1 to 5.6, is reverting in case of problems. Rollbacks don’t happen often, but they do happen and you have to make …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.36-82.1 on August 1, 2017 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.6.36, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.34-79.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in …

Percona is glad to announce the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 on July 28, 2017 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.7.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, and you can find all the release …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how to set up Percona PAM with Active Directory for external authentication.

In my previous article on Percona PAM, I demonstrated how to use Samba as a domain, and how easy it is to create domain users and groups via the samba-tool. Then we configured nss-pam-ldapd and nscd to enumerate user and group information via LDAP calls, and authenticate users from this source.

This time around, I will demonstrate two other ways of using Active Directory for external authentication by joining the domain via SSSD or Winbind. System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) allows you to configure …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how using thread_statistics can cause high memory usage.

I was recently working on a high memory usage issue for one of our clients, and made some interesting discoveries: high memory usage with no bounds. It was really tricky to diagnose.

Below, I am going to show you how to identify that having thread_statistics enabled causes high memory usage on busy systems with many threads.

Part 1: Issue Background

I had a server with 55.0G of available memory. Percona Server for MySQL version:

Version | 5.6.35-80.0-log Percona Server (GPL), Release 80.0, Revision f113994f31
                 Built On | debian-linux-gnu x86_64

We have …

Percona announces the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-15 on May 26, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Based on MySQL 5.7.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-15 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. Percona’s …