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 …

The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.14 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days. If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is […]

As with any new releases, MySQL 8.0.21 introduces many new improvements and updates, many of which deserve their own blog post for a deep dive into the new features.  Among the notable changes are: Account Management Notes, JSON Notes, Authentication Notes and changes related to InnoDB, Optimizer, Group Replication, and more. Here are the MySQL […]

If you are running MySQL on premise, it's maybe the right time to think about migrating your lovely MySQL database somewhere where the MySQL Team prepared a comfortable place for it to stay running and safe. This awesome place is MySQL Database Service in OCI. For more information about what MDS is and what it […]

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the Oracle Cloud Platform where the tutorial leverages 3 services – namely the MySQL Database Service (MDS), Kubernetes Container (K8s) under Developer Services and Compute VM services. This article is written to provide the steps to provision MDS, K8s and Compute VM services.   It also provides the steps to create […]

You have a MySQL instance? Great. You want to take it to a cloud? Nothing new. You want to do it fast, minimizing downtime / service outage? “I wish” I hear you say. Pull up a chair. Let’s have a chinwag. Given the objective above, i.e. “I have a database server on premise and I want […]