I am happy to announce the availability of beta release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and the beta release is based on Percona Server 5.5.20 and the recently released Galera 2.0 GA

The main focus in this release:

• Incremental State Transfer, especially useful for WAN deployments
• Support of Percona XtraBackup for Snapshot State Transfer. This feature is available in pre-release series for XtraBackup 2.0

Despite Galera 2.0 has status “production ready”, we still …

DBD::mysql 4.014 breaks pt-table-checksum 2.0.  The cause is unknown, but the effect is a lot of errors like:

DBD::mysql::st execute failed: called with 2 bind variables when 6 are needed [for Statement "..." with ParamValues: ...] at ./pt-table-checksum line 7216.

The fix is simple: upgrade (or even downgrade) DBD::mysql to any version except 4.014. To see which version of DBD::mysql a system has, execute:

perl -MDBD::mysql -e 'print $DBD::mysql::VERSION, "\n";'

This bug may affect other Percona Toolkit tools, but currently pt-table-checksum 2.0 is the only victim. This bug does not affect pt-table-checksum 1.0, and it cannot be worked around in pt-table-checksum 2.0 because the bug in in DBD::mysql.

This bug affects …

We’ve released a new set of monitoring plugins for MySQL servers and related software. With these plugins, you can set up world-class graphing and monitoring for your MySQL servers, using your own on-premises Cacti and Nagios software. The Cacti plugins are derived from an existing set of templates we’ve been using for several years, but the Nagios check plugins are brand new. They are informed by the research we did into the causes and preventions of MySQL downtime.

Like all Percona software, the plugins are open-source and free, licensed under the GNU GPL. The source code and issue tracker are hosted at …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 on February 10th, 2012 (Downloads are available from Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 downloads and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.1.61, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona ‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.1.61-13.2 milestone at Launchpad.

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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5 on 10 February, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona XtraBackup.

There are some important bug fixes around incremental backups, parallel backups and backups on databases with the system tablespace being multiple files. The full release notes and details are available here: http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/release-notes/1.6/1.6.5.html

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1 on February 9th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.5.20, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1 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 release can be found in the 5.5.20-24.1 milestone at Launchpad.

Full release notes available here: …

We’ve released Percona Toolkit 2.0.3, with a couple of major improvements and many minor ones. You can download it, read the documentation, and get support for it.

What’s new? You can read the changelog for the details, but here are the highlights:

Brand new pt-diskstats, thanks to Brian Fraser. This tool is completely rewritten, and it’s finally the iostat replacement I always wanted. Not only does it have the functionality I want (interactive, slice and dice, smart …

Sometimes we need to restore only some tables from a full backup maybe because your data loss affect a small number of your tables. In this particular scenario is faster to recover single tables than a full backup. This is easy with MyISAM but if your tables are InnoDB the process is a little bit different story.

With Oracle’s stock MySQL you cannot move your ibd files freely from one server to another or from one database to another. The reason is that the table definition is stored in the InnoDB shared tablespace (ibdata) and the transaction IDs and log sequence numbers that are stored in the tablespace files also differ between servers. Therefore our example will be very straightforward: we’ll delete some rows from a table in order to recover the table later.

Most of these limitations are solved on Percona Server . More info about this in the conclusion section of this post. This post will …

This is about the second great feature – Multi-Master replication, what you get with Percona XtraDB Cluster.

It is recommended you get familiar with general architecture of the cluster, described on the previous post.

By Multi-Master I mean the ability to write to any node in your cluster and do not worry that eventually you get out-of-sync situation, as it regularly happens with regular MySQL replication if you imprudently write to the wrong server.

This is long-waited feature, I’ve seen growing demand for it for last two years or even more.
Percona XtraDB Cluster provides it, and let’s see how it works.

With our Cluster you can write to any node, and the Cluster …

There and in coming posts I am going to cover main features of Percona XtraDB Cluster. The first feature is High Availability.

But before jumping to HA, let’s review general architecture of the Percona XtraDB Cluster.

1. The Cluster consists of Nodes. Recommended configuration is to have at least 3 nodes, but you can make it running with 2 nodes too.
2. Each Node is regular MySQL / Percona Server setup. The point is that you can convert your existing MySQL / Percona Server into Node and roll Cluster using it as base. Or otherwise – you can detach Node from Cluster and use it as just a regular server.
3. Each Node contains the full copy of data. That defines XtraDB Cluster behavior in many ways. And obviously there are benefits and drawbacks.

Benefits of such approach:

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