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
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We’re pleased to share our webinar “Multi-Region AWS Aurora vs Continuent Tungsten for MySQL & MariaDB”, recorded live on Thursday, April 18th, 2019.

Our colleague Matt Lang walks you through a comparison of building a global, multi-region MySQL / MariaDB / Percona cloud back-end using AWS Aurora versus Continuent Tungsten.

If you’d like to find out how multi-region AWS Aurora deployments can be improved – then this webinar is for you!

We hope you enjoy it!

Recorded:

Thursday, April 18th at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST

Recording: follow this link to watch

Slides: …

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers to ensure high availability.

MySQL Failure Scenarios Scenario 1 – Master MySQL Goes Down

• The Corosync and Pacemaker framework detects that the master MySQL is no longer available. Pacemaker demotes the master resource and tries …

In my prior blog post on Terraform, I demonstrated building the dependent infrastructure that MySQL implementations need.  Building MySQL isn’t much different, but does identify a need for a Webserver to provide configuration files for Terraform to execute on as was done in my prior MySQL on OCI post, and a Yum Repo Webserver to… Read More »

In my prior blog post on Terraform, I demonstrated building the dependent infrastructure that MySQL implementations need.  Building MySQL isn’t much different, but does identify a need for a Webserver to provide configuration files for Terraform to execute on as was done in my prior MySQL on OCI post, and a Yum Repo Webserver to… Read More »

I have written previous blog posts about Oracle Cloud OCI and this series continues. My post titled with Iaas Getting Started was to get us acquainted with important security-focused items like Compartments and network Services like NAT and Internet-Gateways. Then I posted about building MySQL on Compute with Scripting using a mix of OCI Web console navigation… Read More »

I have written previous blog posts about Oracle Cloud OCI and this series continues. My post titled with Iaas Getting Started was to get us acquainted with important security-focused items like Compartments and network Services like NAT and Internet-Gateways. Then I posted about building MySQL on Compute with Scripting using a mix of OCI Web console navigation… Read More »

In case you missed the Multimaster webinar recorded live on Thursday, March 28th, 2019:

Learn how NewVoiceMedia built a global, multi-region MySQL cloud back-end to support a high-volume cloud contact center. 

Agenda:

Find out how to deploy Multimaster MySQL / MariaDB / Percona with the following design criteria:

• Geographically distributed, low-latency data
• Fast local response times for read & write traffic
• Full ACID compliance – atomic operations, guaranteed consistency, isolation, and durability
• Local rapid-failover, automated high availability

Speaker:

Chris Parker

Director of Professional Services – EMEA/APAC, is based in the UK, and has over 20 years …

Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Get the latest insights on MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year.

SQL vs. NoSQL

As any database administrator knows, the first question you have to ask yourself is whether to use a SQL or NoSQL database for your application. …

The Oracle Cloud has a lot to offer with it’s Security Focused 2nd Generation OCI environment.  My previous blog on OCI IaaS walks us through some of the great IaaS features such as compartments and VCN Subnets where you can run services across private ip addresses.  What I’d like to look at this time is… Read More »