Please join Percona’s Solution Engineer, Dimitri Vanoverbeke as he presents Amazon Migration Service: The Magic Wand to Migrate Away from Your Proprietary Environment to MySQL on Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now In this talk, we will learn about the Amazon Migration Tool. The talk [&]

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https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/13/webinar-tues-8-14-amazon-migration-service-migrate-proprietary-environment-to-mysql/

Please join Percona’s Solution Engineer, Dimitri Vanoverbeke as he presents Amazon Migration Service: The Magic Wand to Migrate Away from Your Proprietary Environment to MySQL on Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now In this talk, we will learn about the Amazon Migration Tool. The talk [&]

The post Webinar Tues 8/14: Amazon Migration Service: The Magic Wand to Migrate Away from Your Proprietary Environment to MySQL appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/13/webinar-tues-8-14-amazon-migration-service-migrate-proprietary-environment-to-mysql/

The performance of a PostgreSQL database can be compromised by dead tuples, since they continue to occupy space and can lead to bloat. We provided an introduction to VACUUM and bloat in an earlier blog post. Now, though, its time to look at autovacuum for postgres, and the internals you to know to maintain a [&]

The post Tuning Autovacuum in PostgreSQL and Autovacuum Internals appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/10/tuning-autovacuum-in-postgresql-and-autovacuum-internals/

The performance of a PostgreSQL database can be compromised by dead tuples, since they continue to occupy space and can lead to bloat. We provided an introduction to VACUUM and bloat in an earlier blog post. Now, though, its time to look at autovacuum for postgres, and the internals you to know to maintain a [&]

The post Tuning Autovacuum in PostgreSQL and Autovacuum Internals appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/10/tuning-autovacuum-in-postgresql-and-autovacuum-internals/

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. The call for submitting a talk to Percona Live Europe 2018 is closing today, and while there may be a short extension, have you already got your talk submitted? I suggest doing so ASAP! [&]

The post This Week in Data with Colin Charles 48: Coinbase Powered by MongoDB and Prometheus Graduates in the CNCF appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/10/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-48-coinbase-powered-by-mongodb-and-prometheus-graduates-in-the-cncf/

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. The call for submitting a talk to Percona Live Europe 2018 is closing today, and while there may be a short extension, have you already got your talk submitted? I suggest doing so ASAP! [&]

The post This Week in Data with Colin Charles 48: Coinbase Powered by MongoDB and Prometheus Graduates in the CNCF appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/10/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-48-coinbase-powered-by-mongodb-and-prometheus-graduates-in-the-cncf/

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. The call for submitting a talk to Percona Live Europe 2018 is closing today, and while there may be a short extension, have you already got your talk submitted? I suggest doing so ASAP! [&]

The post This Week in Data with Colin Charles 48: Coinbase Powered by MongoDB and Prometheus Graduates in the CNCF appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/10/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-48-coinbase-powered-by-mongodb-and-prometheus-graduates-in-the-cncf/

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. The call for submitting a talk to Percona Live Europe 2018 is closing today, and while there may be a short extension, have you already got your talk submitted? I suggest doing so ASAP! [&]

The post This Week in Data with Colin Charles 48: Coinbase Powered by MongoDB and Prometheus Graduates in the CNCF appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/10/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles-48-coinbase-powered-by-mongodb-and-prometheus-graduates-in-the-cncf/

Recently, I wrote a blog post showing how to enforce SELinux with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). The Linux distributions derived from RedHat use SELinux. There is another major mandatory discretionary access control (DAC) system, AppArmor. Ubuntu, for example, installs AppArmor by default. If you are concerned by computer security and use PXC on Ubuntu, you [&]

The post Lock Down: Enforcing AppArmor with Percona XtraDB Cluster appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/09/lock-down-enforcing-apparmor-with-percona-xtradb-cluster/

Please join Autodesk’s Senior Database Engineer, Vineet Khanna, and Percona’s Sr. MySQL DBA, Tate McDaniel as they present Migrating to Aurora and Monitoring with PMM on Thursday, August 9th, 2018, at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now Amazon Web Services (AWS) Aurora is one of the most popular cloud-based RDBMS [&]

The post Webinar Thursday Aug 9: Migrating to AWS Aurora, Monitoring AWS Aurora with PMM appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/09/webinar-thursday-aug-9-migrating-to-aws-aurora-monitoring-aws-aurora-with-pmm/

In Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.13 we have adopted Prometheus 2, and with this comes a dramatic improvement in resource usage, along with performance improvements! What does it mean for you? This means you can have a significantly larger number of servers and database instances monitored by the same PMM installation. Or you can [&]

The post Resource Usage Improvements in Percona Monitoring and Management 1.13 appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/07/resource-usage-improvements-percona-monitoring-and-management-1-13/

In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to set a replication from MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 5.7. There are some situations that having this configuration might help. For example, in the case of a MySQL upgrade, it can be useful to have a master that is using a newer version of MySQL to an older version [&]

The post Replicating from MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 5.7 appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/07/replicating-mysql-8-0-mysql-5-7/

Implementation of MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) in PostgreSQL is different and special when compared with other RDBMS. MVCC in PostgreSQL controls which tuples can be visible to transactions via versioning. What is versioning in PostgreSQL? Lets consider the case of an Oracle or a MySQL Database. What happens when you perform a DELETE or an [&]

The post Basic Understanding of Bloat and VACUUM in PostgreSQL appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/06/basic-understanding-bloat-vacuum-postgresql-mvcc/

Please join Percona’s Architect, Tibi K"or"ocz as he presents Utilizing ProxySQL for Connection Pooling in PHP on Tuesday August 14, 2018, at 8:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 11:00 am EDT (UTC-4).   Register Now ProxySQL is a very powerful tool, with extended capabilities. This presentation will demonstrate how to use ProxySQL to gain functionality (seamless [&]

The post Webinar Tues 8/14: Utilizing ProxySQL for Connection Pooling in PHP appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/06/webinar-tues-8-7-utilizing-proxysql-for-connection-pooling-in-php/

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.6-1.4 on August 3, 2018. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable database that is a fully-compatible, drop-in replacement for MongoDB 3.6 Community Edition. It supports MongoDB 3.6 protocols and drivers. Percona [&]

The post Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.6-1.4 Is Now Available appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/03/percona-server-for-mongodb-3-6-6-1-4-is-now-available/

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Dont wait, submit a talk for Percona Live Europe 2018 to be held in Frankfurt 5-7 November 2018. The call for proposals is ending soon, there is a committee being created, and it is a [&]

The post This Week in Data with Colin Charles 47: MySQL 8.0.12 and Its Time To Submit! appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/03/this-week-in-data-with-colin-charles/

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. One of the common questions that we get is “What is Multi-AZ and how it’s different from Read Replica, do I need both?.  I have tried to answer this question in this [&]

The post Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments and Read Replicas appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/02/amazon-rds-multi-az-deployments-read-replicas/

PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible. The most significant feature in this release is Prometheus 2, however we also packed a [&]

The post Percona Monitoring and Management 1.13.0 Is Now Available appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/01/percona-monitoring-and-management-1-13-0-is-now-available/

The main focus of a previous blog post was the performance of MyRocks when using fast SSD devices. However, I figured that MyRocks would be beneficial for use in cloud workloads, where storage is either slow or expensive. In that earlier post, we demonstrated the benefits of MyRocks, especially for heavy IO workloads. Meanwhile, Mark wrote in [&]

The post Saving With MyRocks in The Cloud appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/01/saving-with-myrocks-in-the-cloud/

Please join Autodesks Senior DevOps Engineer, Sanjeet Deshpande, Autodesks Senior Database Engineer, Vineet Khanna, and Percona’s Sr. MySQL DBA, Tate McDaniel as they present Migrating to AWS Aurora, Monitoring AWS Aurora with PMM on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018, at 5:00 PM PDT (UTC-7) / 8:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Amazon Web Services (AWS) Aurora is one [&]

The post Webinar Wednesday, August 1, 2018: Migrating to AWS Aurora, Monitoring AWS Aurora with PMM appeared first on Percona Database Performance Blog.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/07/31/webinar-wednesday-august-1-2018-migrating-to-aws-aurora-monitoring-aws-aurora-with-pmm/