We had a really great session yesterday during the webinar on Amazon Redshift replication, but sadly ran out of time for questions. So as promised, let’s try and answer the questions asked now!

Are you going to support SAP IQ as a target ?

This is the first request we’ve ever received, and so therefore there are no firm plans for supporting it. As a target, SAP IQ supports a JDBC interface, and therefore is not hugely complicated to achieve compared to more complex, customer appliers.

Can you replicate from SAP ASE ?

No, and no current plans.

What about latin1 character ? Is it supported ?

Yes, although the default mode is for us to use UTF-8 for all extract and apply jobs. You can certainly change the character set, although leaving UTF-8 should also work.

Is it a problem not to have primary keys on Redshift ? …

Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents 2017 Year in Review for Open Source Database Software on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8).

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2017 is soon coming to an end, and it’s good to pause and take a look at the past year to see the impact of new software release. Colin will discuss the changes, growth and trends that have affected software producers and enterprises using open source.

Key topics will include:

• How has the software supply chain landscape …

Join Percona’s Software Engineer (PXC Lead), Krunal Bauskar as he presents Percona XtraDB Cluster 101 on Thursday, December 7, 2017, at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8).

Tags: Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL, High Availability, Clustering

Experience Level: Beginner

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a multi-master solution that offers virtual synchronous replication among clustering node. It is based on the Codership Galera replication library. In this session, we will explore some key features of Percona XtraDB Cluster that make it enterprise ready including some recently added 5.7 exclusive features.

This webinar is an introductory and …

Amazon Redshift has been providing scalable, quick-to-access analytics platforms for many years, but the question remains: how do you get the data from your existing datastore into Redshift for processing? Tungsten Replicator provides real-time movement of data from Oracle and MySQL into Amazon Redshift, including flexible data handling, translation and long-term change data capture.

In our webinar, Wednesday, December 13th, we will review:

• How Amazon Redshift replication works
• Deployment from MySQL or Oracle
• Deployment from Amazon RDS
• Provisioning/seeding the original information
• Filtering and accounting for data differences
• Data concentration/aggregation with single-schema …

Join Shree Nair, Product Manager at Webyog, as he demonstrates the new features introduced in the recent Monyog releases and rolls out the roadmap for the upcoming releases.

Date & Time: Tuesday, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:00 am EDT / 5:00 pm CET.

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What to expect from the webinar?

You will have a better understanding of how to use the new features per your use-case. You will learn about the product roadmap. You can take part in Q&A session and submit your feature requests too.

If you can’t attend this webinar live, register anyway and we’ll send you a link to the recording.

You can download a free trial of Monyog …

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

I spent all of this week at O’Reilly Velocity EU London. I gave a tutorial, a talk and generally networked with attendees (besides my normal evangelical duties). I’ll write some thoughts on it later (probably in a couple of weeks, as Open Source Summit Europe happens next week – and Percona has a booth there).

This will be a quick, short post.

Releases

A few security releases this past week, with some bug fixes as well:

• …

Join Percona’s Senior Architect, Matthew Boehm, as he presents What You Need to Get the Most Out of Indexes – Part 2 webinar on Thursday, October 19, 2017, at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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Proper indexing is key to database performance. Finely tune your query writing and database performance with tips from the experts. MySQL offers a few different types of indexes and uses them in a variety of ways.

In this session you’ll learn:

• How to use composite indexes
• Other index usages besides lookup
• How to find …

Join Percona’s Product Manager Michael Coburn as he presents a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Demonstration on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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How can you optimize database performance if you can’t see what’s happening? Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, open source database troubleshooting and performance optimization platform for MySQL and MongoDB. PMM uses Metrics Monitor (Grafana + Prometheus) for visualization of data points. It also has Query Analytics (QAN), to help …

Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents Databases in the Hosted Cloud on Wednesday, October 4, 2017, at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7).

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Today you can use hosted MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server for MySQL/PostgreSQL in several “cloud providers” as a database as a service (DBaaS). Learn the differences, the access methods and the level of control you have for the various public databases in the hosted cloud offerings:

• Amazon RDS including Aurora
• Google Cloud SQL
• Rackspace OpenStack DBaaS
• Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Service …

Hello again! On August 16, we delivered a webinar on MySQL backups. As always, we’ve had a number of interesting questions. Some of them we’ve answered on the webinar, but we’d like to share some of them here in writing.

What is the best way to maintain daily full backups, but selective restores omitting certain archive tables?

There are several ways this can be done, listed below (though not necessarily limited to the following):

1. Using logical dumps (i.e., mydumper, mysqlpump, mysqldump). This allows you to dump per table and thus be able to selectively restore.
2. Backup the important tables and archive tables separately, allowing to restore separately as well. This is a better …