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where we can download rpm for MHA. I was unable to locate mha 0.56 rpm for mariadb.

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After yesterday’s very successful tutorial day, everyone looked forward to an inspiring first day of the conference and the Percona Live Europe 2017 keynotes. There were some fantastic keynotes delivered, and some excellent sessions scheduled.

Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Office of Percona, opened proceedings with a welcome address where she paid tribute to Jaako Pesonen: a true champion of open source and friend to our community who passed away just this month. He will be missed.

Championing Open Source Databases

Peter Zaitsev delivers his keynote “Championing Open Source Databases”

Laurie then introduced Peter Zaitsev, CEO of …

After yesterday’s very successful tutorial day, everyone looked forward to an inspiring first day of the conference and the Percona Live Europe 2017 keynotes. There were some fantastic keynotes delivered, and some excellent sessions scheduled.

Note. These videos are as shot, and the slides will be superimposed very soon so you can enjoy the full conference experience!

Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Office of Percona, opened proceedings with a welcome address where she paid tribute to Jaako Pesonen: a true champion of open source and friend to our community who passed away just this month. He will be missed.

Championing Open Source Databases

Peter Zaitsev delivers his keynote “Championing Open Source Databases”

Severalnines is pleased to announce the launch of our new tutorial Database Load Balancing for MySQL and MariaDB with ProxySQL.

ProxySQL is a lightweight yet complex protocol-aware proxy that sits between the MySQL clients and servers. It is a gate, which basically separates clients from databases, and is therefore an entry point used to access all the database servers.

Included in this new tutorial….

• Introduction to ProxySQL
• Deep dive into ProxySQL concepts
• How to install ProxySQL using ClusterControl
• How to manage ProxySQL using ClusterControl
• Managing multiple ProxySQL instances
• ProxySQL failover handling
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A regression was discovered after the release of MariaDB 10.1.27. It has been pulled from the downloads system, but some mirrors may still have it. Do not download or install this version. Stay with MariaDB 10.1.26 until 10.1.28 is released The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.27. See the […]

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Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 on September 26, 2017.

Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 introduces basic support for the MyRocks storage engine. There is a special dashboard in Metrics Monitor that presents the essential metrics of MyRocks as separate graphs. Also, Metrics Monitor graphs now feature on-demand descriptions that remain visible as long as hover over them.

For example, this graph helps you visualize MyRocks database operations of Next and Seek attributes:

There are many improvements to QAN (Query Analytics) both in the user interface design and in …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how to avoid shared locks from subqueries.

I’m pretty sure most of you have seen an UPDATE statement matching rows returned from a SELECT query:

update ibreg set k=1 where id in (select id from ibcmp where id > 90000);

This query, when executed with

autocommit=1

, is normally harmless. However, this can have bad effects when combined with other statements in the same transaction that result in holding the shared locks from the SELECT query. But first, let me explain why the SELECT query would hold locks in the first place.

Due to InnoDB’s ACID properties, to make sure that the outer UPDATE statement has a consistent view of the matching rows from the SELECT query the server has to acquire a shared lock on those rows. No other thread should modify …

Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017: Tutorials day! Technically the first day of the conference, this day focused on provided hands-on tutorials for people interested in learning directly how to use open source tools and technologies.

Today attendees went to training sessions taught by open source database experts and got first-hand experience configuring, working with, and experimenting with various open source technologies and software.

The first full day (which includes opening keynote speakers and breakout sessions) starts Tuesday 9/26 at 9:15 am.

Some of the tutorial topics covered today were:

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Moving one of Facebook's main databases to MyRocks cut storage usage in half.

The long awaited first release candidate of MySQL 8.0 is now available. The theme of this release is “making MySQL better for modern apps”. What does that mean exactly?

• A modern application is mobile first. Mobile-first is not just a theme applied to an existing app, it is about using context about the user (such as their location) and reducing the clicks required for a transaction.

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