Want to become one of the Percona Live Europe MongoDB speakers? Read this blog for details.
The Percona Live Europe, Amsterdam call for papers is ending soon and we are looking for MongoDB speakers! This is a great way to build your personal and company brands. It also provides you with a complimentary full conference pass (which is good for your budget)!
If you haven’t submitted a paper yet, here are a list of ideas we would love to see covered at this conference:
[Read more]When it comes to building database applications and solutions, developers, DBAs, engineers and architects have a lot of new and exciting tools and technologies to play with, especially with the Hadoop and NoSQL environments growing so rapidly.
While it’s easy to geek out about these cool and revolutionary new technologies, at some point in the development cycle you’ll need to stop to consider the real-world business implications of the application you’re proposing. After all, you’re bound to face some tough questions, like:
Why did you choose that particular database for our mission-critical application? Can your team provide 24/7 support for the app? Do you have a plan to train people on this new technology? Do we have the right hardware infrastructure to support the app’s deployment? How are you going to ensure there won’t be any bugs or security vulnerabilities?
If you don’t have a plan for …
[Read more]Please join Sveta Smirnova for a webinar Thursday, July 14 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) on an Introduction Into Storage Engine Troubleshooting.
The number of MySQL storage engines provide great flexibility for database users, administrators and developers. At the same time, engines add an extra level of complexity when it comes to troubleshooting issues. Before choosing the right troubleshooting tool, you need to answer the following questions (and often others):
MySQL-Sandbox 3.1.11 introduces a new utility, different from anything I have put before in the MySQL Sandbox toolkit.
make_sandbox_from_url downloads a tiny MySQL tarball
from a repository and install it straight away.
As of today, the following packages are available
| Major release | versions |
package size (what you download) |
expanded size (storage used) |
original size (not included) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 5.0.96 | 20M | 44M | 371M |
| 5.1 | … |
There was a time when tag-clouds were the thing for website owners to fancy oneself. These clouds are mostly gone, but seen from the perspective of how to implement such a thing, one can learn quite a lot, especially with large amounts of links. Anyway, imagine you publish some articles on your website, which are stored in a table "post" and you want to to add tags to every post in order to print a tag-cloud.
There was a time when tag-clouds were the thing for website owners to fancy oneself. These clouds are mostly gone, but seen from the perspective of how to implement such a thing, one can learn quite a lot, especially with large amounts of links. Anyway, imagine you publish some articles on your website, which are stored in a table "post" and you want to to add tags to every post in order to print a tag-cloud.
When analysing MySQL configuration and status information at customers it is always
interesting to see how the applications behave. This can
partially be seen by the output of the SHOW GLOBAL STATUS command. See also
Reading MySQL fingerprints.
Today we wanted to know where the high
Com_create_table and the twice as high
Com_drop_table is coming from. One suspect was
TEMPORARY TABLES. But are real
temporary …
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.5.50-38.0 on July 8, 2016.
Based on MySQL 5.5.50, including all the bug fixes in
it, Percona Server 5.5.50-38.0 is now the current stable
release in the 5.5 series.
Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.50-38.0 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.
New Features: …
[Read more]Percona announces the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.5 on July 8, 2016. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.
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[Read more]MySQL sys version 1.5.1 has just been released.
This is a purely bug fix release, and has been merged in to the upcoming MySQL 5.7.14 release.
Here’s a full summary of the changes:
Improvements
Bug Fixes
