Percona

MARCH 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 February 27, 2023. 24 was released on March 9, 2023.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In their annual sustainability report in July 2023 AWS did update their list of sustainable regions to highlight 19 regions that are 100% sustainable — using an annual local market methodology for scope 1 and 2. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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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.

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Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases.

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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.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

Organizations are increasingly moving to multicloud environments and adopting microservices to increase the efficiency, reliability, and scalability of their applications and services. In the era of in-house, internal-facing databases, manual monitoring and oversight were possible with minimal errors.

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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. pgBackRest is a highly efficient and versatile tool for managing PostgreSQL backups.

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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)

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. ” A data warehouse, on the other hand, is an efficient and fast option for querying data.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Most approaches focus on improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a data center energy-efficiency measure. energy-efficient data centers—cloud providers—achieve values closer to 1.2. This computational efficiency also reduces energy consumption, which in turn reduces carbon emissions. A PUE of 1.0

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This post was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in September 2023. MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If you ever had to make a quick ad-hoc backup of your MongoDB databases, but there was not enough disk space on the local disk to do so, this blog post may provide some handy tips to save you from headaches. while not overloading the CPU capacity on the production database. zst 2023-02-07T19:33:58.138+0100 writing db2.products

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As we at Percona wind down 2023 and look into what the next year holds, our attention is drawn to the cloud-native landscape and how it is maturing, growing, and evolving. KubeCon NA 2023 recap The theme for KubeCon NA was very clear — AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).

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Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Therefore, we executed the pt-table-checksum in the following way: $ pt-table-checksum h=192.168.0.14 --port=3306 --no-check-binlog-format --no-check-replication-filters --replicate percona.checksums --recursion-method=hosts --max-load Threads_running=50 --max-lag=100 --databases=foo --tables=persons Checking if all tables can be checksummed.

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Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

You can read part one here: Scalable Solutions With Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Set Up Three PostgreSQL Database Instances. Citus is an open-source extension for PostgreSQL that expands its capacity to manage databases of varying scales, ranging from individual nodes to extensively distributed database clusters.

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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 '?'

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Percona

AUGUST 16, 2023

In database management, well-formatted SQL code is easier to read and a vital aspect of maintaining clean, efficient, and error-free databases. PostgreSQL developers and database administrators often deal with complex SQL queries, making code readability a critical factor for productivity.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As they try to become more efficient, organizations are turning to technologies such as AIOps and IT automation. AIOps —or the automation of IT operations—and other forms of IT automation have received increasing focus because these technology approaches are critical to improving organizational efficiency.

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Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Not everything can be addressed on the database side. Human factor: In an ideal case, there must be stringent restrictions and enforcement on what load and number of connections can be onboarded to the Database. App-Dev often demands unrestricted, uncontrolled access to the database. However, gatekeeping is not an easy job.

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Official Blog - World Web Technology

APRIL 12, 2023

A WordPress developer must have the technical expertise and should be familiar with WordPress, its themes, plugins, difficulties that arise during the development, and how to address them quickly and efficiently. MySQL MySQL is a database that every WordPress developer should know of. HTML HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.

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Percona

JULY 1, 2023

This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What are the differences between Aurora and RDS?

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

First, we will need to install the OS with the necessary control files for the appropriate PostgreSQL version for installing pg_partman on the database. Installation of pg_partman on the database I recommend creating the schema before creating the extension to install the extension’s objects.

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Percona

JULY 6, 2023

Performance is one of the essential aspects of a database management system. In PostgreSQL, there are different ways it can leverage the indexes to produce the most efficient plan. One way to verify a column’s number of distinct values is by querying the pg_stats view in our database.

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Percona

JUNE 7, 2023

Triggers on Data Definition Language (DDL) events are a powerful feature of PostgreSQL that allows you to perform additional actions in response to changes to the database schema. DDL events include operations such as CREATE, ALTER, and DROP statements on tables, indexes, and other database objects.

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O'Reilly

JUNE 11, 2024

Another AI model that has access to a database of our platform’s content to generate “candidate” documents. When anything is added to the platform, it is added to the database from which relevant content is chosen. Users will never see “This model has only been trained on data through July 2023.” What is the real goal?

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. Most recently, in StackOverflow’s 2022 Stack Developer Survey , PostgreSQL took a slight lead over MySQL (46.48% to 45.68%) as the most popular database platform among professional developers. What is PostgreSQL used for? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

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Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023. Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker.

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. This is it. The POC Why this POC?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Like Kubernetes, it allocates resources efficiently and ensures high availability and fault tolerance. Likewise, Red Hat OpenShift helps organizations administer Kubernetes more efficiently.

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

A single command to deploy the operator would be: kubectl apply -f [link] --server-side Init SQL script Init SQL allows the creation of the database cluster with some initial data in it. You can find all examples from this blog post in this GitHub repository. Everything is created with postgres admin user.

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Percona

JULY 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2022 and was updated in July 2023. One very common problem when trying to optimize a database environment is index usage. Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. What is an Index?

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. In a sharded cluster, each shard acts as an independent database responsible for storing and managing specific data.

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