This blog describes how to identify queries that cause a sudden spike in system resources as well as the user and host who executed the culprit query using the Monyog MySQL Monitor and Advisor.

How many times have you seen a system go live and perform much worse than it did in testing? There could be several reasons behind bad performance. For instance, a slow running query in MySQL can be caused by a poor database design or may be due to higher-than-normal latency in network communication. Other issues such as using too few or too many indexes may also be a factor. This blog will identify the types of poorly performing queries and outline some concrete strategies for identifying them using monitoring. Finally, some tips for improving performance will be presented.

The Effects of Misbehaving Queries

Typically, misbehaving queries will result in two possible outcomes: high CPU usage and/or slow execution. The two …

This blog describes how to identify queries that cause a sudden spike in system resources as well as the user and host who executed the culprit query using the Monyog MySQL Monitor and Advisor.

How many times have you seen a system go live and perform much worse than it did in testing? There could be several reasons behind bad performance. For instance, a slow running query in MySQL can be caused by a poor database design or may be due to higher-than-normal latency in network communication. Other issues such as using too few or too many indexes may also be a factor. This blog will identify the types of poorly performing queries and outline some concrete strategies for identifying them using monitoring. Finally, some tips for improving performance will be presented.

The Effects of Misbehaving Queries

Typically, misbehaving queries will result in two possible outcomes: high CPU usage and/or slow execution. The two …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin

Have you registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin? We have announced some awesome keynotes, and our sponsor list is growing (and we’re always looking for more!).

There will also be a community dinner (Tuesday, September …

Yes, it’s that time of year again: the Percona Live Europe Conference is just around the corner.

And we’ll be broadcasting live from the Emerald Isle!

Quite literally, since we’re planning to be on our Twitter and Facebook channels during the course of the conference, so do make sure to tune in (if you’re not attending in person). And this year’s location is indeed Dublin, Ireland, so expect lots of banter and a bit of craic.

More specifically though, the Severalnines team will be well represented with three talks and a booth in the exhibition area. So do come and meet us there. If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time to do so on the conference website: https://www.percona.com/live/e17/

Our talks at the conference:

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In this blog post, I’ll look at a comparison of PostgreSQL and MySQL.

I came across a post from Hans-Juergen Schoenig, a Postgres consultant at Cybertec. In it, he dismissed MySQL and showed Postgres as better. While his post ignores most of the reasons why MySQL is better, I will focus on where his post is less than accurate. Testing for MySQL was done with Percona Server 5.7, defaults.

Mr. Schoenig complains that MySQL changes data types automatically. He claims inserting 1234.5678 into a numeric(4, 2) column on Postgres produces an error, and that MySQL just rounds the number to fit. In my testing I found this to be a false claim:

mysql> CREATE TABLE data (
    -> id    integer NOT NULL, …

Notes/errata/updates for Chapter 2:
See the official book errata at http://tahaghoghi.com/LearningMySQL/errata.php – Chapter 2 includes pages 9-93 (but we skip pages 83-92). It seems like a lot of pages, however you will skip the operating systems that do not apply to you. Do NOT compile or install from tarball or source; just use the packages that are pre-made. You will want the latest version of MySQL, which at the time of this writing is MySQL 5.7.

You should install the latest version of MySQL, which can be downloaded from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ If you want to install something else, you can install MariaDB or Percona’s patched version.

Note that you do NOT need to install Apache, Perl or PHP. You can skip pages 83-92.

On p. 10, it …

Join Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn as he presents Using Percona Monitoring and Management to Troubleshoot MySQL Performance Issues on Thursday, September 7, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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Successful applications often become limited by MySQL performance. Michael will show you how to get great MySQL performance using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). There will be a demonstration of how to leverage the combination of the …

Percona, in collaboration with Facebook, is proud to announce the first experimental release of MyRocks in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7, with packages.

Back in October of 2016, Peter Zaitsev announced that we were going to port MyRocks from Facebook MySQL to Percona Server for MySQL.

Then in April 2017, Vadim Tkachenko announced the availability of experimental builds of Percona Server for MySQL with the MyRocks storage engine.

Now in September 2017, we are pleased to announce the first full experimental release of MyRocks with packages for Percona Server for MySQL …

“To be competitive with non-open-source cloud deployment options, open source databases need to invest in “ease-of-use.” There is no tolerance for complexity in many development teams as we move to “ops-less” deployment models.” –Peter Zaitsev

I have interviewed Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder and CEO of Percona.
In this interview, Peter talks about the Open Source Databases market; the Cloud; the scalability challenges at Facebook; compares MySQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB; and presents Percona’s contribution to the MySQL and MongoDB ecosystems.

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Q1. What are the main technical challenges in obtaining application scaling?

Peter Zaitsev: When it comes to scaling, there are different types. There is a Facebook/Google/Alibaba/Amazon scale: these …

Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10am PT / 1pm ET (UTC-7) discuss the Percona roadmap, as well as what’s new in Percona open source software.

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During this webinar Peter will talk about newly released features in Percona software, show a few quick demos and share with you highlights from the Percona open source software roadmap. This discussion will cover …