What better way to start a new year than with a new product release?

Today we are excited to announce the 1.5.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases - and load balancers - in any environment: on-premise or in the cloud.

ClusterControl 1.5.1 features encryption of backups for MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, a new topology viewer, support for MongoDB 3.4, several user experience improvements and more!

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In 2017 we have welcomed many new customers into the Percona fold. It’s always interesting to find out what challenges the Percona team helped them to address and how they chose their relationship with Percona. As unbiased champions of open source database software, our consultancy, support and managed services staff apply their expertise across a wide range of technologies. Here are just a few stories from the past year.

Scaling applications on Amazon RDS the right way

Specializing in on-demand transportation services, Grab needed a high-availability, high performing database engine to serve their rapidly growing application. Grab operates in over 30 densely populated …

When I consult at a company, I aim to identify issues with their database and give options on how to solve them.
However, sometimes implementing those solutions may be a more lengthy process than it needs to be and sometimes they may not be implemented at all. During my career, I have observed some reasons as to why that might happen within organizations.

Obviously, the following observations will never happen at your company. I am just writing about them so that you might notice them in other places.

1. Legacy code 
People don't like to have anything to do with legacy code. It’s painful. It’s difficult. It’s risky to change. It runs business critical functions. Worse of all, they didn’t write it. This can be a problem as often, the most cripling database issues require changes to legacy code.

2. New Technologies or Methods
People don’t like you to introduce any …

In my MySQL Parallel Replication session at Percona Live Santa Clara 2017, I talked about a bug in Write Set tracking for parallel replication (Bug#86078).  At the time, I did not fully understand what was going wrong but since then, we (Engineers at Oracle and me) understood what happened and the bug is supposed to be fixed in MySQL 8.0.4.  This journey thought me interesting MySQL behavior and

There are two new MySQL books both from Apress Press. One is an in depth master course on the subject and the other is a quick introduction.


ProMySQL NDB Cluster is subtitled Master the MySQL Cluster Lifecycle and at nearly 700 pages it is vital resource to anyone that runs or is thinking about running NDB Cluster. The authors, Jesper Wisborg Krogh and Mikiya Okuno, have distilled their vast knowledge of this difficult subject in a detail packed but easily readable book.  MySQL Cluster is much more complex in many areas than a regular MySQL server and here you will find all those details. If you run MySQL NDB Cluster then you need this book. The partitioning information in chapter 2 is worth the price of the book alone.  I am only a third of the way …

In this post, we’ll look at how to improve queries using generated columns and ProxySQL instead of implementing a referenced table.

Developers and architects don’t always have the time or complete information to properly analyze and design a database. That is why we see tables with more fields than needed, or with incorrect types. The best solution is implementing a change in the database schema and/or application level. In this post, we’ll look at an example of generated columns (using a char field) instead of creating a referenced table, and how using generated columns and ProxySQL avoids changes at the application level.

For this example, I will be using the film table of the Sakila database (with some changes). The original film table had a language_id as tinyint, which refers to the language table:

Happy New Year everybody !

All your wishes should come true with 2018.0 !

As announced previously in this post, this year we will have the second edition of the MySQL Day just before FOSDEM.

All speakers confirmed their talk and I’ve the pleasure to share the announce the schedule !

That’s great! Thanks,
Do you know how to prevent MySql from generating a random password and instead use the once chosen by the user when running mysqld –initialize ? I want to force using a password on a no install version distributed with a standalone application 🙂

The major engine for MySQL is InnoDB, it complies with the ACID properties for a transactional database engine. Even if InnoDB is the most recommended engine for MySQL, it has also some caveats. The biggest criticism lies in the amount of disk space used. And even when we remove data, tablespaces don’t shrink.

This post is about those tables that are fragmented.

To find the top 10 of tables with free space (free space means gaps that may happen when for example large delete operations happened or if many pages had to be moved around), a simple query can be run:

SELECT CONCAT(table_schema, '.', table_name) as 'TABLE', 
       ENGINE, CONCAT(ROUND(table_rows / 1000000, 2), 'M')  ROWS, 
       CONCAT(ROUND(data_length / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') DATA, 
       CONCAT(ROUND(index_length / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') IDX, 
       CONCAT(ROUND(( data_length + index_length ) / ( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 ), 2), 'G') 'TOTAL SIZE', …

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2017.

The closing of a year lends itself to looking back. And making lists. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. We’ve had over three and a half million visits to the blog in 2017: thank you! We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2018.

As 2017 moves into 2018, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year.

Top 10 Most Read

These posts had the most number of views (working down from the highest):

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