One of the more popular support requests we get involves setting up the official Percona rsync repositories that can be used to set up local mirrors. I’m glad to announce that this was implemented recently. You can now access the rsync repository at:

rsync://rsync.percona.com/rsync/

Setting up the local mirror can be useful if you have a larger number of systems and you don’t want to download packages from the remote repository multiple times, it can also be useful if the original repository is slower or inaccessible.

Setting up the local repository

Create a folder on disk where the files will be downloaded. Make sure you have enough space for this, currently repository for CentOS 6 is almost 2GB.

[root@percona1]# mkdir -p /data/repo/percona/

After this use createrepo to create all the necessary repository …

Percona is pleased to announce the first General Availability release of the leading open source High Availability solution for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 on January 30, 2014. Binaries are available from downloads area or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6
Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 is an active/active cluster solution for High Availability (HA) MySQL that delivers performance and MySQL-based cluster management features available nowhere else. This free, open source solution combines …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.7 on January 24th, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.

This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.1 series. Percona XtraBackup is an open source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases. Percona XtraBackup is an open source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking …

This blog, MySQLPerformanceBlog.com, is powered by WordPress, but we never really looked into what kind of queries to MySQL are used by WordPress. So for couple months we ran a Query Analytics (part of Percona Cloud Tools) agent there, and now it is interesting to take a look on queries. Query Analytics uses reports produced by pt-query-digest, but it is quite different as it allows to see trends and dynamics of particular query, in contrast to pt-query-digest, which is just one static report.

Why looking into queries important? I gave an intro in my previous post from this series.

So Query Analytics give the report on the top queries. How to detect which query is “bad”?
One of metrics I am typically looking into is ratio of “Rows …

One of our primary focuses at Percona is performance. Let me make some statements on what is “performance.”

In doing so I will refer to two pieces of content:

• Carry Millsap’s talk “Performance Instrumentation: Beyond What You Do Now” [1]
• White Paper (by Peter and Baron) “Goal-Driven Performance Optimization” [2]

I highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with both of them.

Performance

Performance is about tasks and time.
We say that the system is performing well if it executes a task in an acceptable period of time, or that the …

Percona Server version 5.5.35-33.0

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.35-33.0 on December 20th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.35, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.35-33.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Toolkit 2.2.6 on December 20th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.2 series. This release has 16 bug fixes and a few new features. One bug fix is very important, so 2.2 users are strongly encouraged to upgrade:

Fixed bug 1223458: pt-table-sync deletes child …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.34-25.9 on December 4, 2013. Binaries are available from the downloads area or from our software repositories.

Based on Percona Server 5.5.34-32.0 including all the bug fixes in it, Galera Replicator and on Codership wsrep API 5.5.34-25.9, Percona XtraDB Cluster …

I recently conducted a test backup of my “master-slave” setup in my VirtualBox as I was migrating from Percona Server 5.6.12 to version 5.6.13-rel61.0 with Percona XtraBackup v2.2.0 rev. 4885. However, doing the backup on my slave, I encountered this problem:

[04] Compressing and streaming ./test/checksum.ibd
[01] Compressing and streaming ./mysql/slave_master_info.ibd
Assertion "to_read % cursor->page_size == 0" failed at fil_cur.cc:293
innobackupex: Error: The xtrabackup child process has died at /usr/bin/innobackupex line 2641.

This is related to a bug posted by my colleague George  …

Recently, I helped a client that was having issues with deployments causing locking in their production databases.  At a high level, the two key components used in the environment were:

• Capistrano (scripted deployments) [website]
• Liquibase (database version control) [website]

At a high level, they currently used a CLI call to Liquibase as a sub-task within a larger deployment task.  The goal of this engagement was to modify that sub-task to run Liquibase in a non-blocking fashion as opposed to the default that just runs native ALTERS against the database.

As I wasn’t very familiar with Liquibase, I took this opportunity to learn more about it and it seems like a very valuable tool.  Essentially, it does the following:

• Adds two version control tables to …