Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is different enough from async replication that it can be a bit of a puzzle how to do things the Galera way.  This post will attempt to illustrate the basics of setting up 2 node PXC cluster from scratch.

Requirements

Two servers (could be VMs) that can talk to each other.  I’m using CentOS for this post.  Here’s a dirt-simple Vagrant setup: https://github.com/jayjanssen/two_centos_nodes to make this easy (on Virtualbox).

These servers are talking over the 192.168.70.0/24 internal network for our example.

jayj@~/Src $ git clone https://github.com/jayjanssen/two_centos_nodes.git
jayj@~/Src $ cd two_centos_nodes
jayj@~/Src/two_centos_nodes $ vagrant up
 Bringing machine 'node1' up …

While we are working hard on the final push of Percona Server 5.6 GA (I know that many people are waiting on this, but stay with us – we want to ensure that we have a quality release with great performance), I decided to make an experimental build of Percona Server 5.6 with the TokuDB engine.

It’s available here: http://www.percona.com/downloads/TESTING/Percona-TokuDB/.

If you are interested, please test it and provide us with feedback. If things look good, in couple months we may release an official Percona Server 5.6 with TokuDB.

The post …

Percona XtraBackup 2.0.8 was released September 4.

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.0.8 on September 4, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup is the world’s only open-source, free MySQL hot backup software that performs non-blocking backups for InnoDB and XtraDB databases.

This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.0 series.

Bugs Fixed:

• …

Percona Server version 5.1.71-14.9

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.71-14.9 on August 27th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.71, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.71-14.9 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is …

Percona Server version 5.5.33-31.1

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.33-31.1 on August 27th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.33, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.33-31.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is …

We receive this question about the ibdata1 file in MySQL very often in Percona Support.

The panic starts when the monitoring server sends an alert about the storage of the MySQL server – saying that the disk is about to get filled.

After some research you realize that most of the disk space is used by the InnoDB’s shared tablespace ibdata1. You have innodb_file_per_table enabled, so the question is:

What is stored in ibdata1?

When you have innodb_file_per_table enabled, the tables are stored in their own tablespace but the shared tablespace is still used to store other InnoDB’s internal …

Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver is one of the best utilities to archive the records from large tables to another tables or files. One interesting thing is that pt-archiver is a read-write tool. It deletes data from the source by default, so after archiving you don’t need to delete it separately.

As it is done by default, you should take care before actually running it on then production server. You can test your archiving jobs with the – dry-run  OR you can use the –no-delete option if you’re not sure about. The purpose of this script is mainly to archive old data from the table without impacting OLTP queries and insert the data into …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.4 on August 9th, 2013. 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.

New Features:

• Percona XtraBackup has introduced …

Today we’re celebrating Percona’s 7th anniversary.  A lot has changed in these past 7 years – we have grown from a two-person outfit focused exclusively on consulting to a 100-person company with teammates in 22 different countries and 18 different states, now providing Support, Consulting, RemoteDBA, Server Development and Training services.

We also made our mark in open source software development, creating some of the most popular …

Poor pt-heartbeat 2.1: it was perfectly fine through Percona Toolkit 2.1.7, but it’s had a rough life since. Its troubles are finally over as of Percona Toolkit 2.1.10. At a conference recently, a user joked to me that “Percona Toolkit is awesome, but you really broke pt-heartbeat.” It’s true, and if you haven’t heard or experienced the story, here it is for the record.

Since the dawn of time, pt-heartbeat had computed slave lag like:

t1=time (Perl) --> replicate --> t2=time (Perl); lag = t2 - t1

Surprisingly, that worked for many years despite what should have been an obvious problem: different time zones: t1 could be in PST …