MySQL 5.6 has an impressive list of improvements. Among them, replication checksums caught my attention as it seems that many people misunderstand the real added value of this new feature. I heard people think that with replication checksums, data integrity between the master and its replicas is now enforced. As we’ll see, it’s not that [...]
Percona MySQL University: Looking for a venue in Toronto next month
January 31, 2013 By 1 Comment
Thank you to everyone who attended Percona MySQL University in Raleigh, N.C. We had a great turnout and a lot of positive feedback! What’s next for Percona MySQL University? Next week we’re going to hold events in Montevideo and Buenos Aires which are gathering significant local interest! In March we’re focusing on Toronto – We’ll [...]
How Can Percona MySQL Server Development Services Help ?
January 28, 2013 By 3 Comments
At Percona we offer a number of services. One of them, Custom MySQL Server Development, is commonly the most misunderstood and undervalued. There are a lot of ways Percona custom MySQL server development can help your business be more successful with MySQL. Here are some ways: Bugs – There are Bugs in MySQL, Percona Server, [...]
Percona MySQL University, Raleigh just got better with AfterParty
January 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
We got a great response to our Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh With about a week to go before event we’re around 90% full, so if you plan to attend do not delay your registration until last minute. Also if you have registered before but can’t attend at this point please release your ticket [...]
CVE-2012-4414 strikes back in MySQL 5.5.29 (and what we’re doing in Percona Server 5.5.29)
January 13, 2013 By 4 Comments
In preparing Percona Server 5.5.29 (not yet released, but soon), I filed MySQL bug 68045 (is marked private as it’s a security bug). This bug is in relation to the Oracle fix for CVE-2012-4414 and a problem I found with it. The MariaDB fix (which we incorporated into Percona Server 5.5.28-29.3) is not affected. When the [...]
Join us for our first Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. Jan 29
January 10, 2013 By 4 Comments
At Percona we focus on education a lot, which we believe is critical for us to be successful with our mission of making businesses successful with their use of MySQL. The MySQL Performance Blog, our first effort in this space, by now contains over 1,000 technical articles. We have spoken on countless conferences and Meetups [...]
MySQL Training from Percona: January – March 2013
January 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Now that we are in the New Year, it is time to settle back into work and make plans for 2013. As part of your professional development planning, consider Percona MySQL Training. Percona will be holding the following MySQL Training classes in the first quarter: January Live Virtual Training – DBA Training for MySQL: January 7-10, [...]
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC): what about GRA_*.log files ?
December 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
How easy is it to identify and debug Percona XtraDB Cluster replication problem ? If you are using PXC, you may have already seen in your datadirectory several log files starting with GRA_ Those files correspond to a replication failure. That means the slave thread was not able to apply one transaction. For each of [...]
Percona and the MariaDB Foundation
December 19, 2012 By 3 Comments
There have been several reports (1,2,3) describing Percona’s stance regarding the MariaDB Foundation that are not totally accurate so I though it would be worth it to describe where we stand on this and related matters. First, let me say the creation of theMariaDB Foundation is a good thing for the MariaDB Community and I’m [...]
Migrating several single standalone MySQL server to one Percona XtraDB Cluster… MariaDB to the rescue !
December 18, 2012 By 3 Comments
Some weeks ago I had to migrate some independent MySQL servers (some standard MySQL masters, and some just standalone) to a Percona XtraDB Cluster of 3 nodes. So the easiest way would be to configure each node to become also an asynchronous slave of one of the production servers. Like illustrated here: But in this [...]
