DBD::mysql 4.014 breaks pt-table-checksum 2.0. The cause is unknown, but the effect is a lot of errors like: DBD::mysql::st execute failed: called with 2 bind variables when 6 are needed [for Statement "..." with ParamValues: ...] at ./pt-table-checksum line 7216. The fix is simple: upgrade (or even downgrade) DBD::mysql to any version except 4.014. To [...]
Announcing MySQL Monitoring Plugins from Percona
We’ve released a new set of monitoring plugins for MySQL servers and related software. With these plugins, you can set up world-class graphing and monitoring for your MySQL servers, using your own on-premises Cacti and Nagios software. The Cacti plugins are derived from an existing set of templates we’ve been using for several years, but [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 on February 10th, 2012 (Downloads are available from Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 downloads and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.61, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.61-13.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona ‘s software is open-source and free, all the details [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.5 on 10 February, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release is purely composed of bug fixes and is the current stable release of Percona XtraBackup. There are some important bug fixes around incremental backups, parallel backups and backups on databases with the system [...]
Announcing Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1 on February 9th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.20, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona ‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can [...]
Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.0 Beta 1
Percona is glad to announce our first Beta release of what will become Percona XtraBackup 2.0. We’re releasing this beta to encourage testing of our upcoming 2.0 release of Percona XtraBackup. Since this is a beta release, you should not rely on it for production workloads – use the stable 1.6 series of Percona XtraBackup [...]
Announcing Percona Toolkit Release 2.0.3
We’ve released Percona Toolkit 2.0.3, with a couple of major improvements and many minor ones. You can download it, read the documentation, and get support for it. What’s new? You can read the changelog for the details, but here are the highlights: Brand new pt-diskstats, thanks to Brian Fraser. This tool is completely rewritten, and [...]
How to recover a single InnoDB table from a Full Backup
Sometimes we need to restore only some tables from a full backup maybe because your data loss affect a small number of your tables. In this particular scenario is faster to recover single tables than a full backup. This is easy with MyISAM but if your tables are InnoDB the process is a little bit [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 2: Multi-Master replication
This is about the second great feature – Multi-Master replication, what you get with Percona XtraDB Cluster. It is recommended you get familiar with general architecture of the cluster, described on the previous post. By Multi-Master I mean the ability to write to any node in your cluster and do not worry that eventually you [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 1: High Availability
There and in coming posts I am going to cover main features of Percona XtraDB Cluster. The first feature is High Availability. But before jumping to HA, let’s review general architecture of the Percona XtraDB Cluster.

