What excites me is the possibility that this tool is giving to other people. Also, the challenges I’ve faced and the new ideas for the future releases are always source of interest that keep me focused on the project. So I’m looking forward to sharing this with the conference delegates.

pg_chameleon can achieve two tasks in a very simple way. It can setup a permanent replica between MySQL and PostgreSQL, giving the freedom of choice for the right tool for the right job, or can migrate multiple schemas to a PostgreSQL database.

Anybody that want to extend their database experience, taking the best of the two worlds, or who is seeking a simple way to migrate data with minimal downtime will find the presentation interesting.

What else am I looking forward to at Percona Live Europe?

I’m …

There’s just over one week to go so it’s time to announce the keynote addresses for Percona Live Europe 2018! We’re excited to share our lineup of conference keynotes, featuring talks from Paddy Power Betfair, Amazon Web Services, Facebook, PingCap and more!

The speakers will address the current status of key open source database projects MySQL®, PostgreSQL, MongoDB®, and MariaDB®. They’ll be sharing with you how organizations are shifting from a single use database to a …

MySQL Shell is a command-line shell for MySQL Server that has the capability for
interactive and batch code execution.  It also offers a wealth of APIs that make it easier and more efficient to work with and manage MySQL servers. In 8.0.13, we made an effort to make those APIs easily accessible straight from the command line.…

Containers are eating the world. If you have built and deployed an application in production over the last few years, the odds are that you have deployed your code in containers. You might have created and deployed individual containers (Docker, Linux LXC, etc.) directly in the beginning, but quickly switched over to a container orchestration technology like Kubernetes (K8s) or Swarm when you needed to coordinate multi-node deployments and high availability (HA). In this container-driven world, what will the future of the application stack look like? Let’s start with what we need from this “future” application stack.

What Do We Need From This Future Application Stack?

1. Cloud Agnostic

   We …

Enterprises require high availability for their business-critical applications. Even the smallest unplanned outage or even a planned maintenance operation can cause lost sales, productivity, and erode customer confidence. Additionally, updating and retrieving data needs to be robust to keep up with user demand.

Let’s take a look at how Tungsten Clustering helps enterprises keep their data available and globally scalable, and compare it to Amazon’s RDS running MySQL (RDS/MySQL).

Replicas and Failover What does RDS do?

Having multiple copies of a database is ideal for high availability. RDS/MySQL approaches this with “Multi-AZ” deployments. The term “Multi-AZ” here is a bit confusing, as enabling this simply means a single “failover replica” will be created in a different availability zone from the primary database instance. …

Without our sponsors, it would be almost out of reach to deliver a conference of the size and format  that everyone has come to expect from Percona Live. As well as financial support, our sponsors contribute massively by supporting their teams in presenting at the conference, and adding to the quality and atmosphere of the event. Having their support means we can present excellent in-depth technical content for the tutorials and talks, and that’s highly valued by conference delegates. This year, too, Amazon Web Services (AWS) sponsors the cloud track on day two, with a superb line up of cloud content.

Here’s a shout out to our sponsors, you’ll find more information on the Percona Live sponsors page:

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On our job schedule system. Using osc-tool cause deadlock problem.
We investigated the root cause in detail and published this PDF doc.

OSC_DDL_PROBLEM

The latest release of the MySQL Shell 8.0.13 (GA) introduced some interesting improvements and features, for more information see the full changelog here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-news-8-0-13.html. One of those features was the introduction of a convenient and easy way to import JSON documents to a MySQL Server database.…

One important way to protect your data is to keep your Tungsten Clustering software up-to-date.

A standard cluster deployment uses three nodes, which allows for no-downtime upgrades along with the ability to have a fully available cluster during maintenance.

Please note that with only two database cluster nodes, there is a window of vulnerability created by leaving zero failover candidates available when the lone slave is taken down for service.

The Best Practices: Staging Performing a No-Downtime Upgrade for a Staging Deployment

When upgrading a Staging-style deployment, all nodes are upgraded at once in parallel via the tools/tpm update command run from inside the staging directory on the staging host.

No Master switch happens, and all layers are restarted to use the new code. …

Recently we had a customer that had issues with a filled disk on the server hosting their Docker pmm-server environment. They were not able to access the web UI, or even stop the pmm-server container because they had filled the /var/ mount point.

Setting correct expectations

The best way to avoid these kinds of issues in the first place is to plan ahead, and to know exactly with what you are dealing with in terms of disk space requirements. Michael Coburn has written a great blogpost on this matter:

https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/05/04/how-much-disk-space-should-i-allocate-for-percona-monitoring-and-management/

We are now using …