Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour on Thursday, March 21st, 2019, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4).
MySQL 8.0 Performance Schema is a mature tool, used by humans and monitoring products. It was born in 2010 as “a feature for monitoring server execution at a low level.” The tool has grown over the years with performance fixes and DBA-faced features. In this webinar, I will give …
[Read more]Please join Percona’s Information Security Architect, David Bubsy, as he presents his talk Web Application Security – Why You Should Review Yours on March 14th, 2019 at 6:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 9:00 AM EDT (UTC-4).
In this talk, we take a look at the whole stack and I don’t just mean LAMP.
We’ll cover what an attack surface is and some areas you may look to in order to ensure that you can reduce it.
For instance, what’s an attack surface?
Acronym Hell, what do they mean?
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[Read more]Join Percona Support Engineer, Vinicius Grippa, as he presents his talk Enhancing MySQL Security on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 at 7:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 10:00 AM EST (UTC-5).
Security is always a challenge when it comes to data. What’s more, regulations like GDPR add a whole new layer on top of it, with rules more and more restrictive to access and manipulate data. Join us in this presentation to check security best practices, as well as traditional and new features available for MySQL including features coming with the new …
[Read more]Join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Amazon RDS on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019, at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 2:00 PM EST (UTC-5).
In this hour-long webinar, Peter describes the differences between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Afterward, Peter will go through scenarios detailing how each is handled manually and in Amazon RDS.
He will review the pros and cons of managing HA and DR in the traditional …
[Read more]While implementing ClickHouse for query executions statistics storage in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), we were faced with a question of choosing the data type for metrics we store. It came down to this question: what is the difference in performance and space usage between Uint32, Uint64, Float32, and Float64 column types?
To test this, I created a test table with an abbreviated and simplified version of the main table in our ClickHouse Schema.
The “number of queries” is stored four times in four different columns to be able to benchmark queries referencing different columns. We can do this with ClickHouse because it is a column store and it works only with columns referenced by the query. This method would not be appropriate for testing on …
[Read more]In one of my previous posts, I started a series on data compression options with MySQL. The first post focused on the more traditional compression options like InnoDB Barracuda page compression and MyISAM packing. With this second part, I’ll discuss a newer compression option, InnoDB transparent page compression with punch holes available since 5.7. First, I’ll describe the transparent page compression method and how it works. Then I’ll present similar results as in the first post.
InnoDB transparent page compression
Before we can discuss transparent page compression, we must understand how InnoDB accesses its data pages. To access an InnoDB page, you need to know the tablespace (the file) and the offset of the page within the …
[Read more]Join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents Percona Software News and Roadmap Update on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 2:00 PM EST (UTC-5).
Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev discuss what’s new in Percona open source software. Topics include Percona Server for MySQL and MongoDB, Percona XtraBackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Monitoring and Management.
During this …
[Read more]Please join Percona’s Senior Technical Manager, Alkin Tezuysal, and Percona’s Percona XtraDB Cluster Lead, Krunal Bauskar as they present their talk, Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios and their Recovery on Wednesday, January 30th, 2019, at 8:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 11:00 AM EST (UTC-5).
Percona XtraDB Cluster (a.k.a PXC) is an open source, multi-master, high availability MySQL clustering solution. PXC works with your MySQL / …
[Read more]Please join Percona’s Chief Technology Officer, Vadim Tkachenko, as he presents How to Rock with MyRocks on Thursday, January 17th at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).
MyRocks is a new storage engine from Facebook and is available in Percona Server for MySQL. In what cases will you want to use it? We will check different workloads and when MyRocks is most suitable for you. Also, as for any new engine, it’s important to set it up and tune it properly. So, we will review the most important settings to pay attention to.
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[Read more]One of the most exciting features Amazon Aurora Serverless brings to the table is its ability to go to sleep (pause) when idle. This is a fantastic feature for development and test environments. You get access to a powerful database to run tests quickly, but it goes easy on your wallet as you only pay for storage when the instance is paused.
You can configure Amazon RDS Aurora Serverless to go to sleep after a specified period of time. This can be set to anywhere between five minutes and 24 hours
For this feature to work, however, inactivity has to be complete. If you have so much as a single query or even maintain an idle open connection, Amazon Aurora Serverless will not be able to pause.
This means, for example, that pretty much any monitoring you may have enabled, including our own …
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