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An Oracle engineer thanked two Percona engineers by name, along with engineers from Facebook and elsewhere, for their recent MySQL 8.0 source code contributions. Oracle incorporated their work into its latest MySQL production release (8.0.13).

Percona’s Zsolt Parragi authored a patch for a rare replication bug that left locked mutexes in production builds following debug crashes (bug # …

PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL® and MongoDB® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

While much of the team is working on longer-term projects, we were able to provide the following feature:

• MySQL and PostgreSQL support for all cloud DBaaS providers – Use PMM Server to gather Metrics and Queries from remote instances!
• Query Analytics + Metric Series – See Database activity alongside queries
• Collect local metrics using node_exporter + textfile …

Percona released a Release Candidate (RC) version of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0, the company’s free, enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL Community Edition. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all the features of MySQL Community Edition 8.0, along with enterprise-class features from Percona that make it ideal for enterprise production environments. The latest release offers increased reliability, performance and security.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 General Availability (GA) will be available later this year. You learn how to install the release candidate software here. Please …

Following the alpha release announced earlier, Percona announces the release candidate of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.12-2rc1 on October 31, 2018. Download the latest version from the Percona website or from the Percona Software Repositories.

This release is based on MySQL 8.0.12 and includes all the bug fixes in it. It is a Release Candidate quality release and it is not intended for production. If you want a high quality, Generally Available release, use the current Stable version (the most recent stable release at the time of writing in the 5.7 series is 5.7.23-23).

Percona provides completely open-source and free software.

Installation

As this is a release candidate, installation is performed by enabling the testing repository and installing the software via …

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 …

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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For those who are looking forward to Percona Live Europe in just two weeks time—and for those yet to make up their minds—some of our presenters have shared some insight into their talks and what they’re most looking forward to themselves. Make no mistake, this is one of the most exciting events in the conference calendar for those of us who work with open source databases.

This year, our conference previews are being hosted over on the Percona community blog and the posts have been written by the presenters.

Percona Live Europe presents…

Here are the first six posts in this series of Percona Live Europe presents. There are more to come, so do come back over the next few days to see if any of the writers can help you pinpoint the talks that you are most …

ProxySQL 1.4.11, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.

ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL and its forks (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created ProxySQL for DBAs as a means of solving complex replication topology issues.

The ProxySQL 1.4.11 source and binary packages available at https://percona.com/downloads/proxysql …

After much speculation following the announcement in Santa Clara earlier this year, we are delighted to announce Percona Live 2019 will be taking place in Austin, Texas.

Save the dates in your diary for May, 28-30 2019!

The conference will take place just after Memorial Day at The Hyatt Regency, Austin on the shores of Lady Bird Lake.

This is also an ideal central location for those who wish to extend their stay and explore what Austin has to offer! Call for papers, ticket sales and sponsorship opportunities will be announced soon, so stay tuned!

In other Percona Live news, we’re less than 4 weeks away from this year’s European conference taking place in Frankfurt, Germany on 5-7 November. The tutorials and breakout sessions have been announced, and you can view the full schedule  …

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL® and MongoDB® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL® and MongoDB® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

This release offers two new features for both the MySQL Community and Percona Customers:

• MySQL Custom Queries – Turn a SELECT into a dashboard!
• Server and Client logs – Collect troubleshooting logs for Percona Support

We addressed 17 new features and improvements, and fixed 17 bugs.

MySQL Custom Queries

In 1.15 we are introducing the ability to …