Great news! MySQL 8.0.3 is out and it is a release candidate. In the replication team we have been busy working on interesting new enhancements and also doing some clean up. Some of these new features are out in this release.…

This blog post will give a brief overview of Amazon RDS capabilities and limitations, and how Percona Support can help you succeed in your Amazon RDS deployments.

One of the common questions that we get from customers and prospective customers is about Percona Support with Amazon RDS. As many companies have shifted to the cloud, or are considering how to do so, it’s natural to try to understand the limitations inherent in different deployment strategies.

Why Use Amazon RDS?

As more companies move to using the cloud, we’ve seen a shift towards work models in technical teams that require software developers to take on more operational duties than they have traditionally. This makes it essential to abstract infrastructure so it can be interacted with as code, whether through automation or APIs. Amazon RDS presents a compelling DBaaS product with significant flexibility while maintaining ease of deployment.

Use …

Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.

This blog post is with Alexey Kopytov, sofware developer and maintainer of sysbench. His talk is Modern sysbench: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks. His presentation present new features provided by recent releases and explain how they can be used to create complex benchmark scenarios and collect performance metrics with a simple Lua API. It will also run a live demo of some of …

The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.3, the first 8.0 Release Candidate (RC1), is now available for download at dev.mysql.com (8.0.3 adds features to 8.0.2, 8.0.1 and 8.0.0). The source code is available at GitHub.…

OOW17 is just around the corner. And again this year the MySQL team is very proud to present you their work mostly on MySQL 8.0 but also on NDB and all Enterprise tools we have. This year, we will also focus on the place MySQL has in Oracle’s Cloud !

Of course MySQL’s Community is also present in the schedule with very interesting talks. The full schedule related to the MySQL sessions can be found here.

Let’s focus on the agenda for the event:

Sunday, October 1st Moscone South Room 160

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In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to run and use sysbench histograms.

One of the features of sysbench that I often I see overlooked (and rarely used) is its ability to produce detailed query response time histograms in addition to computing percentile numbers. Looking at histograms together with throughput or latency over time provides many additional insights into query performance.

Here is how you get detailed sysbench histograms and performance over time:

sysbench --rand-type=uniform --report-interval=1 --percentile=99 --time=300 --histogram --mysql-password=sbtest oltp_point_select --table_size=400000000 run

There are a few command line options to consider:

• report-interval=1 – prints out the current performance measurements every second, which helps see if …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 on September 20, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.37-26.21 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.37-82.2
• Galera Replication library 3.21
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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MySQL databases power your business, and every minute of downtime has costs. High availability is essential and you can minimize risk with MySQL Group Replication.

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Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.

This blog post is with Dana Van Aken, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her talk is titled Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-Scale Machine Learning. DBMSs are difficult to manage because they have hundreds of configuration “knobs” that control factors such as the amount of memory to use for …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL improves MySQL SSL connection performance.

When deploying MySQL with SSL, the main concern is that the initial handshake causes significant overhead if you are not using connection pools (i.e., mysqlnd-mux with PHP, mysql.connector.pooling in Python, etc.). Closing and making new connections over and over can greatly impact on your total query response time. A customer and colleague recently educated me that although you can improve SSL encryption/decryption performance with the AES-NI hardware extension on modern Intel processors, the actual overhead when creating SSL connections comes from the handshake when multiple roundtrips between the server and client are needed.

With ProxySQL’s support for SSL on its backend connections and connection pooling, we can have it sit in front of any application, on the same server (illustrated below):

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