Percona Server 5.6.20-68.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.20-68.0 on August 29, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.Based on MySQL...
View ArticleGalera data on Percona Cloud Tools (and other MySQL monitoring tools)
I was talking with a Percona Support customer earlier this week who was looking for Galera data on Percona Cloud Tools. (Percona Cloud Tools, now in free beta, is a hosted service providing access to...
View ArticleInnoDB’s multi-versioning handling can be Achilles’ heel
I believe InnoDB storage engine architecture is great for a lot of online workloads, however, there are no silver bullets in technology and all design choices have their trade offs. In this blog post...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.5.41-37.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.41-37.0 on January 9, 2015. Based on MySQL 5.5.41, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.41-37.0 is now the current stable...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.6.22-71.0 is now available
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.22-71.0 on January 12, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.Based on MySQL...
View ArticleLooking deeper into InnoDB’s problem with many row versions
A few days ago I wrote about MySQL performance implications of InnoDB isolation modes and I touched briefly upon the bizarre performance regression I found with InnoDB handling a large amount of...
View ArticleThe future of MySQL quality assurance: Introducing pquery
Being a QA Engineer, how would you feel if you had access to a framework which can generate 80+ crashes – a mix of hitting developer introduced assertions (situations that should not happen), and...
View Article5 free handy tools for monitoring and managing MySQL replication
MySQL Replication is very simple to set up. In this post I’ll discuss its importance and five handy tools for monitoring and managing MySQL replication.What is MySQL Replication? It’s the process of...
View ArticleOptimizer hints in MySQL 5.7.7 – The missed manual
In version MySQL 5.7.7 Oracle presented a new promising feature: optimizer hints. However it did not publish any documentation about the hints. The only note which I found in the user manual about the...
View ArticleIntroducing email reports for Percona Cloud Tools!
For those PCT users who forget to regularly check query performance, you can now get server query reports delivered to your email daily or weekly. The report contains a digest of the most critical...
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