Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.7.25-28 on February 18, 2019. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.
This release is based on MySQL 5.7.25 and includes all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server 5.7.25-28 is now the current GA (Generally Available) release in the 5.7 series.
All software developed by Percona is open-source and free.
In this release, Percona Server introduces the …
[Read more]Migrating from Oracle to MySQL/Percona Server is not a trivial task. Although it is getting easier, especially with the arrival of MySQL 8.0 and Percona announced Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 GA. Aside from planning for your migration from Oracle to Percona Server, you must ensure that you understand the purpose and functionality for why it has to be Percona Server.
This blog will focus on Migrating from Oracle to Percona Server as its specific target database of choice. There's a page in the Oracle website about SQL Developer Supplementary Information for MySQL Migrations which can be used as a reference for the planned migration. This blog will not cover the overall process of migration, as it is a …
[Read more]Ahead of the PCI move to deprecate the use of ‘early TLS’, we’ve previously taken steps to disable TLSv1.0.
Unfortunately at that time we encountered some issues which led us to rollback these changes. This was to allow users of operating systems that did not – yet – support TLSv1.1 or higher to download Percona packages over TLSv1.0.
Since then, we have been tracking our usage statistics for older operating systems that don’t support TLSv1.1 or higher at https://repo.percona.com. We now receive very few legitimate requests for these downloads.
Consequently, we are ending support for TLSv1.0 on all Percona web properties.
…[Read more]The importance of online code editing platforms cannot be overemphasized. As much as we love our local IDE's, one too many times we find ourselves needing to quickly share and or collaborate with a friend or colleague in our local projects.
In cases like this, online playgrounds give us that added functionality to write and run codes as well as share snippets and have colleagues test it out and give us feedback. In this post, we'll be looking at the top 7 online code editors for JavaScript in no particular order.
CodePen
CodePen is an online social development environment for front-end developers. It comes fully equipped with all the features you'll need to build, test, share, collaborate and even deploy your websites.
Plans and Features CodePen plans are flexible enough to accommodate whatever needs you might have. First, there are individual and …
[Read more]A Guest Post from Jordan Raine, Clio
Jordan Raine is a staff software developer at Clio, the leading provider of legal practice management, client relationship management, and client intake software. Clio is dedicated to helping lawyers meet client needs and run efficient, profitable practices. Jordan wrote this post to help mySQL developers save time/effort and ultimately improve their customers' experience.
Unlike most code a developer writes, writing SQL only requires us
to describe what data we want and not how to get it. When given a
query like SELECT id, author_id FROM
posts WHERE author_id = 123
ORDER BY id, you needn’t concern yourself
with what indexes are used (if any), what type of sort is used,
or any other number of implementation details. Instead, the query
optimizer handles this for you. This keeps SQL concise and …
More than 3 weeks passed since my previous review of public MySQL bug reports I
am subscribed to, so it's time to present some of the bugs I've
considered interesting in January, 2019.
As usual, I'll review them starting from the oldest and try to
summarize my feelings about these bugs at the end of this post.
Here they are:
While implementing ClickHouse for query executions statistics storage in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), we were faced with a question of choosing the data type for metrics we store. It came down to this question: what is the difference in performance and space usage between Uint32, Uint64, Float32, and Float64 column types?
To test this, I created a test table with an abbreviated and simplified version of the main table in our ClickHouse Schema.
The “number of queries” is stored four times in four different columns to be able to benchmark queries referencing different columns. We can do this with ClickHouse because it is a column store and it works only with columns referenced by the query. This method would not be appropriate for testing on …
[Read more]Since the concept of cloud was born, there has been strong growth in the number of migrations to this environment. However, not everything that shines is gold.
As the demand grows, so does the costs. We can find ourselves in a situation where our monthly cloud expenses are very high and, in this case, it may make sense to migrate back to an on-prem environment.
The costs may not be the only reason. There might be security or compliance requirements, or we may need to have more control of our systems. Knowing what happens at a lower level can help us better optimize things.
AWS not only give us the environment, it also provides us with monitoring and management tools to run our system in the cloud. So, it can be really hard to migrate to an on-prem environment and recreate all these tools to …
[Read more]If you work with MySQL or PostgreSQL, you probably at least heard about PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management). If you want to test it, you may also be interested in this article: I’ll show you how to setup a MySQL and a MariaDB instance and monitor them in the quickest way. Which is Docker.
Docker is also my favourite way of running PMM in production. To be clear, I wouldn’t run a production DBMS in Docker. But now we are talking to test something quickly on your laptop, without wasting too much time. And I don’t know a faster way.
Note: PMM is not a single piece of software. It is a solution created by making use of existing software projects, like Grafana, Prometheus and Orchestrator. In this post I want to add this complexity, even if the cost is a …
[Read more]Mydbops database meetup was held on 26-01-2019 and 48 members from open source database community has attended this event. We had talks on MySQL and MongoDB databases.
Open source database enthusiastic from companies like OLA Cabs, Searce Inc, PayTm, Quikr, Zensar, Grab, SAP labs, Travel Yarri, Meddiff and a few has travelled from other cities of India like Hyderabad and Chennai.
The Welcome talk was given my Selva venkatesh of Mydbops. He spoke about the open source database community and welcomed all the participants and speakers.
Followed by it Karthik P R , CEO/ Founder, Mydbops made his presentation on “InnoDB Performance Optimisation” . InnoDB is the prime engine in MySQL.This talk focuses on the InnoDB Architecture in MySQL 8.0 and its fine tuning. He also answered the various questions raised …
[Read more]