In a previous post, I listed all the Booking.com talks at Percona Live.  In this post, I will give more details about my talks.

As a reminder, the list of my talks is the following:

Monitoring Booking.com without looking at MySQL (Thursday keynote) The two little bugs that almost brought down Booking.com (Tuesday Lightning Talk) MySQL/MariaDB Parallel Replication: inventory, use cases and

We have been working on bringing out a build of MyRocks with Percona Server for MySQL.

MyRocks is a RocksDB-based storage engine. You can find more information about MyRocks here.

While there is still a lot of work to do, I want to share an experimental build of Percona Server for MySQL with MyRocks, which you can use to evaluate and test this engine

(WARNING: in NO WAY is this build supposed to be for production usage! Consider this ALPHA quality.)

The tar.gz binaries are available from our …

In this blog, we’ll look at the

mysqlpump

 utility.

mysqlpump

 is a utility that performs logical backups (which means backing up your data as SQL statements instead of a raw copy of data files). It was added in MySQL Server version 5.7.8, and can be used to dump a database or a set of databases to a file and then loaded on another SQL server (not necessarily a MySQL server).

Its usage is similar to

mysqldump

, but it includes a new set of features. Many of the options are the same, but it was written from scratch to avoid being limited to

mysqldump

 compatibility. The Main Features Include:

• To make the dump process faster, it allows parallel processing of databases and objects within databases.
…

Once again, Pythian is organizing the traditional Open Source Database Community dinner in Santa Clara!

• When: Tuesday April 25, 7pm-10pm
• Where: David’s Restaurant, a short 5-minute walk from the Santa Clara Convention center.
• Tickets: Register here!

Among the attendees will be Pythian’s amazing lineup of speakers at the PerconaLive Conference.

This event is open to all open source database community members who will be in the area; many will be in town for the …

In MySQL 8.0.1, in addition to new as_cs collations (accent sensitive, case sensitive) for utf8mb4, we have also added a new collation for Japanese.

Introducing utf8mb4_ja_0900_as_cs

Collating rules for for Japanese are complex.  Japanese has multiple writing systems with katakana, hiragana, kanji, romaji.…

In a week, me and some Booking.com colleagues will be in Santa Clara for Percona Live.

Booking.com is sponsoring the conference and we will be present at the Monday Evening Reception.  You do not need a tutorial pass to attend the dinner (even if it is on the tutorial day): any valid pass will do.  If you do not have your ticket yet, it is time to register (you can use the discount code “

Want to get your web development ideas in front of a live audience? The
call for papers for the ConFoo Vancouver 2017 web developer conference is open! If you have
a burning desire to hold forth about PHP, databases, JavaScript, or any
other web development topics, we want to see your proposals. The window is
open only from April 10 to May 8, 2017, so hurry. An added benefit: If your
proposal is selected and you live outside of the Vancouver area, we will
cover your travel and hotel.

You’ll have 45 minutes for the talk, with 35 minutes for your topic and
10 minutes for Q&A. We can’t wait to see your proposals!

Until the talks are picked, the price for the tickets will be at its
lowest. Once …

In this post, I’ll explain how to run Percona Server for MySQL and Percona Server for MongoDB on Bash on Windows on Ubuntu.

We are getting a good number of questions about whether Percona Server (for both MySQL and MongoDB) is available for Windows for evaluation or development purposes. I want to provide a guide to how to get it running.

In comments to the post Running Percona XtraBackup on Windows … in Docker, Peter Laursen recommend Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. That hadn’t occurred to me before, so the credit goes to Peter Laursen.

As of that older post, it appears that Percona XtraBackup was not working right in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. But in my latest test on Windows …

TokuDB Hotbackup is a solution that allows you to do backups on the fly. It works as a library that intercepts certain system calls that duplicate data written to already copied parts of files, so that at the end of the backup process the copied files contain the same content as the original files. There are several blog posts describing how TokuDB Hot Backup works in details:

• TokuDB Hot Backup Now a MySQL Plugin
•  TokuDB Hot Backup – Part 1
• TokuDB Hot Backup – Part 2 …

As you already know, a new MySQL-8.0 milestone release is available (and hope you did not miss all the news coming from MySQL Server Team site - starting by what's new article and followed by many others (and you'll see yet more to come ;-))..

There are also many good changes improving overall MySQL 8.0 Performance. However to see a real boost on OLTP workloads you'll need to have little bit more of patience.. -- we're attacking InnoDB fundamentals.. -- the parts of design which are probably remained mostly unchanged since InnoDB creation ;-)) -- you can easily understand that such a work has a long road from idea/ prototype to a final release.. On the same time our "Preview" results are looking very encouraging, and I'll be happy to say you more about during my talk …