The COVID-19 pandemic imparts upon us lessons that we shouldn’t ignore about work-life balance, especially as we close down our home offices and commute back into the office.

Oracle lands the 2021 Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators award for encouraging all employees to explore and innovate.

The company’s finance team needed better, faster insights into business performance. They turned to Oracle Cloud EPM to understand how their market was changing.

Congratulations to Oracle's 2021 Markie Award nominees, finalists, and winners! Let's take a closer look at what made this year's nominees so exceptional.

The COVID-19 pandemic imparts upon us lessons that we shouldn’t ignore about work-life balance, especially as we close down our home offices and commute back into the office.

One of the greatest factors and fundamentals of data governance is security. It is a good practice to have database security implemented in place whenever you have your data management involved for enterprise or mass consumption. 

Data security is one of the most significant aspects of administering a database. It plays a critical role for which every database management should implement. When it's implemented and done correctly, the result shall improve not only your data security but also affects system stability, enhances the development life-cycle, boosts your data compliance, and enhances security awareness down to your team level. Everyone does not want their data to end up in the wrong hands. If data is breached, it not only risks the confidentiality and integrity of your data but also leaves your organization …

Storing your data locally can impose security and availability risks. Major cloud providers have object storage services available to allow you to upload and distribute data across different regions using various retention and restore policies.

Percona XtraBackup delivers the xbcloud binary – an auxiliary tool to allow users to upload backups to different cloud providers directly.

Today we are glad to announce the introduction of the Exponential Backoff feature to xbcloud.

In short, this new feature will allow your backup upload/download to work better with unstable network connections by retrying each chunk and adding an exponential wait time in between retries, increasing the chances of completion in case of an unstable connection or network glitch.

This new functionality is available on today’s release of Percona …

Distributed environment is hardly a new notion in the world of software. For one, you no longer need to host MySQL servers and databases on the same local machine. Now you can have a dedicated server that can deliver the required level of security and performance. With the help of root/sudo user privileges, you can […]

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Overview Connector/NET provides replication & load balancing configuration that allows to connect to master/slaves environments and at the same time balancing the request over all the available server in this scenario. This post will show you how to configure and use these new features on a console ...

We’re excited to share that Marcelo Altmann from the Percona Server Engineering Team has just been promoted from Oracle ACE Associate to Oracle ACE.

Congratulations!

The Oracle ACE Program recognizes and rewards community members for their technical contributions to the Oracle community.

Marcelo initially joined Percona as a senior support engineer in our global services organization, where he helped customers with running their MySQL-based environments. In early 2020, he joined our Server Engineering team and has been actively involved in the development of Percona Server for MySQL and Percona …