Join Percona’s, Technical Services Manager, Jervin Real as he presents Learning MySQL 5.7 on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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MySQL 5.7 has a lot of new features. If you’ve dabbled with an older version of MySQL, it is worth learning what new features exist and how to use them. This webinar teaches you about new features such as multi-source replication, global transaction IDs (GTIDs), security improvements and more.

We’ll also discuss logical decoding. Logical decoding is one of the features under the BDR implementation, which allows bidirectional streams of data between Postgres …

The MySQL Development team is happy to announce our 8.0.2 development milestone release (DMR), now available for download at dev.mysql.com. (8.0.2 adds features to 8.0.1 and 8.0.0). The source code is available at GitHub. You can find the full list of changes and bug fixes in the 8.0.2 Release Notes.…

Introduction I either have time for reading or writing, but not both. Now that the first edition of High-Performance Java Persistence is done, I can catch up on the many books I planned on reading but didn’t have time to do so. In this post, I’m going to review High Performance MySQL by Baron Schwartz, … Continue reading Book Review – High Performance MySQL (3rd edition) →

I am starting a series of videos on the MySQL Document Store. The Document Store allows those who do not know Structured Query Language (SQL) to use a database without having to know the basics of relational databases, set theory, or data normalization. The goal is to have sort 2-3 minute episodes on the various facets of the Document Store including the basics, using various programming languages (Node.JS, PHP, Python), and materializing free form schemaless, NoSQL data into columns for use with SQL.

The first Episode, Introduction, can be found here.

Please provide feedback and let me know if there are subjects you would want covered in the near future.

In this blog post, I’ll look at a trick we use at Percona when upgrading to MySQL 5.7.

I’ll be covering this subject (and others) in my webinar Learning MySQL 5.7 on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.

We’ve been doing upgrades for quite a while here are Percona, and we try to optimize, standardize and improve this process to save time. When upgrading to MySQL 5.7, more often than not you need to run REPAIR or ALTER via mysql_upgrade to a number of MySQL tables. Sometimes a few hundred, sometimes hundreds of thousands.

One way to cut some time from testing or executing mysql_upgrade is to combine it with mysqlcheck. This identifies tables that need to be rebuilt or repaired. The first …

MySQL is proud to announce that we are going to support and actively attend a very unique event BuzzConf in Australia. It’s hold on December 1-3, 2017 in Phoenix Park, AU.
BuzzConf is a family-friendly technology festival with a really unique atmosphere – all participants and presenters spend the weekend together in country Victoria, learning and playing with tech during the day and being entertained by live music all night!
Whether you want to give a talk, run a workshop, lead a kids track session, or entertain the masses during the festival, BuzzConf wants to hear from you!

The Call for Presenters runs until August 4, so there’s not long to get an idea in – but plenty of time to nut out all the final details should an idea from your community be selected for the program.
Find out what makes BuzzConf different at  …

Continuent Tungsten 5.2 is just around the corner. This is one of our most exciting Tungsten product releases for some time!

In this webinar we’re going to have a look at a host of new features in the new release, including
Three new Replication Applier Targets (Kafka, Cassandra and Elasticsearch)
New improvements to our core command-line tools trepctl and thl
New foundations for our filtering services, and
Improvements to the compatibility between replication and clustering

This webinar is going be a packed session and we’ll show all the exciting stuff with more in-depth follow-up sessions in the coming weeks.

You’ll also learn about some more exciting changes coming in the upcoming Tungsten releases (5.2.1 and 5.3), and our major Tungsten 6.0 release due out by the end of the year.

So come and join us to get the low down on everything related to …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how to set up Percona PAM with Active Directory for external authentication.

In my previous article on Percona PAM, I demonstrated how to use Samba as a domain, and how easy it is to create domain users and groups via the samba-tool. Then we configured nss-pam-ldapd and nscd to enumerate user and group information via LDAP calls, and authenticate users from this source.

This time around, I will demonstrate two other ways of using Active Directory for external authentication by joining the domain via SSSD or Winbind. System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) allows you to configure …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.7. This is a stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details. Download MariaDB 10.2.7 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

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In this blog post, I will run a gh-ost benchmark against the performance of pt-online-schema-change.

When gh-ost came out, I was very excited. As MySQL ROW replication became commonplace, you could use it to track changes instead of triggers. This practice is cleaner and safer compared to Percona Toolkit’s pt-online-schema-change. Since gh-ost doesn’t need triggers, I assumed it would generate lower overhead and work faster. I frequently called it “pt-online-schema-change on steroids” in my talks. …