Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

Managing database servers involves different aspects, among which security is critical. However, we know having a “runaway” grant is always a possibility, especially in environments with a large number of servers. Fortunately, in Percona Server for MySQL , this feature is free to use. How does it work?

Servers 84

Servers Database Open Source Scalability 84

Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since October 31, 2023.

Innovation 87

Innovation Open Source Scalability Database 87

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since November 13, 2023.

Open Source 80

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 80

Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since October 16, 2023.

Monitoring 79

Monitoring Open Source Scalability Database 79

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since September 18, 2023.

Open Source 81

Open Source Scalability Database Servers 81

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Will 2023 be called the year of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)? I played a bit with ChatGPT in February to see how it would respond to random database-related inquiries, and I found it pretty impressive and annoying at the same time. Me : OK, so if I want to downgrade my MongoDB standalone server from version 7.0

Database 87

Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 87

Percona

AUGUST 21, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since August 7, 2023.

Open Source 82

Open Source AWS Servers Database 82

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since July 24, 2023.

Open Source 85

Open Source Scalability Servers Database 85

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Here is a roundup of frontend web development trends to keep an eye on in 2023. Another benefit is cost savings associated with server and data center setup and maintenance. If you have a large database of user information stored on your servers, consider introducing multi-factor identification.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since September 4, 2023.

Open Source 80

Open Source Servers Database Scalability 80

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since May 29, 2023.

Open Source 83

Open Source Servers Database Scalability 83

Percona

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Welcome to 2023! Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. If you replicate from one server to the next, are you replicating what you need? Take some to check how the server is being accessed, as you do not want a project to use the root access for all queries. First, how are your backups?

Database 91

Database Open Source Hardware Operating System 91

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since May 8, 2023.

Open Source 77

Open Source Servers Scalability Database 77

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 13, 2023. was released on March 23, 2023.

Open Source 77

Open Source Servers Scalability Cache 77

Percona

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since January 30, 2023. was released on February 9, 2023.

Open Source 84

Open Source Database Servers Scalability 84

Percona

MAY 8, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since April 24, 2023.

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers 77

Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 27, 2023. was released on March 27, 2023.

Open Source 78

Open Source Servers AWS Database 78

Percona

JULY 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since June 26, 2023.

Monitoring 77

Monitoring Open Source Scalability Database 77

Percona

JUNE 15, 2023

Sometimes we might need to install/upgrade Percona Server for MySQL /MySQL 8 to a particular version in a test or production environment. Install Percona Server for MySQL 8 specific version packages via repository. Download specific Percona Server for MySQL 8 tarball packages and install them manually. bullseye amd64 1.7

Servers 83

Servers C++ Database Systems 83

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since April 10, 2023.

Open Source 78

Open Source Storage Servers Database 78

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since July 10, 2023.

Open Source 72

Open Source Scalability Database Monitoring 72

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Your MySQL connection id is 256 Server version: 8.0.32-24.2 Copyright (c) 2009-2023 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. mysql> create database if not exists atsaloux; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 2023-07-26T12:22:43 Copying approximately 4 rows.

Database 96

Database Performance C++ Engineering 96

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since January 9, 2023. was made available on January 23, 2023.

Open Source 85

Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 85

Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup. In my lab, we have two test nodes: PRIMARY: mysql57 (192.168.56.111) with Percona Server 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade. On primary server mysql5.7,

Servers 104

Servers C++ Storage Systems 104

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

To briefly explain pgBackRest, it is an open source backup tool that takes FULL Backup, Incremental Backup, and Differential Backup for PostgreSQL databases. Repository means the location/path on the server or the cloud where the actual copy of the backup will reside. Let’s discuss a few scenarios one by one. Scenarios: 1.

Servers 82

Servers Azure AWS Cloud 82

Percona

JUNE 29, 2023

Before Percona Server for MongoDB 4.4 PSMDB), the best practice to create an index was doing it in a rolling manner. Many folks used to create directly on Primary, resulting in the first index being created successfully on Primary and then replicated to Secondary nodes. Starting from PSMDB 4.4, Status of nodes: rs1:PRIMARY> rs.status().members.forEach(function

Servers 80

Servers C++ Storage Best Practices 80

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

The common use cases involve sharing pt-mysql-summary, pt-stalk, and other OS-related details to assist Support Engineers or any other third-party team troubleshoot database-related issues. out" INFO[2023-04-22 06:55:42] Running pt-summary INFO[2023-04-22 06:55:48] Creating output file "/home/vagrant/pt/pt-mysql-summary_2023-04-22_06_55_48.out"

Database 93

Database Systems Open Source Engineering 93

Percona

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since February 13, 2023. was released on February 15, 2023.

Monitoring 69

Monitoring Open Source Database Software 69

Percona

JANUARY 9, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. was released on January 6, 2023. and included in Percona Server for MySQL include: Supports Generated Invisible Primary Keys(GIPK).

Open Source 85

Open Source Database Servers Software 85

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

The MOVEit vulnerability is a critical SQL injection flaw in the web application MOVEit Transfer , which MITRE published as CVE-2023-34362 on May 31, 2023. When exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can gain remote code injection capabilities in the MOVEit server and modify or steal sensitive data from its database.

Database 156

Database Government Games Servers 156

Percona

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

PostgreSQL is a powerful and popular open source relational database management system. Ensuring the safety of your PostgreSQL data through regular backups is an important concern for database administrators. The /etc/pgbackrest/pgbackrest.conf file contains crucial information related to our primary database server.

Database 95

Database Open Source Storage Servers 95

Percona

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The PMM Dump performs a logical backup of the performance metrics collected by the PMM Server and imports them into a different PMM Server instance. PMM Dump allows you to share monitoring data collected by your PMM server securely with the Percona Support team. 2023-01-05T20:01:33+03:00 INF Processing 1/49 chunk.

Monitoring 97

Monitoring Metrics Analytics Open Source 97

Percona

APRIL 28, 2023

Let’s start with a simple introductory comparison: With proprietary (closed source) database software, the public does not have access to the source code; only the company that owns it and those given access can modify it. Myth #2: Proprietary databases are better and therefore more suitable for large enterprises.

Open Source 113

Open Source Database Software Software 113

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 93

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 93

Dynatrace

JANUARY 23, 2024

In May 2023 the critical vulnerability CVE-2020-36641 in the Java library aXMLRPC was published in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). XML external entity (XXE) exploit The aXMLRPC library allows its users to connect to a server and perform RPC calls using the XML-RPC protocol over HTTP.

Java 202

Java Servers Code Software 202

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This type of backup is suitable for large, important databases that need to be recovered quickly when problems occur. Physical backups are the backups that consist of raw copies of the directories and files that store database contents. Copyright (c) 2016, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Type 'help' or '?'

C++ 105

C++ Servers Storage Speed 105

Percona

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to establish a Citus database spanning multiple nodes by using Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL. This setup empowers your database to efficiently manage increased data volumes, enhance performance, and maintain availability. 1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 1ubuntu1~20.04.1)

Scalability 85

Scalability Database Open Source Traffic 85