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. By default, pgBackRest uses the same lock-file path for the backup and expire processes.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

At Dynatrace Perform 2023 , Maciej Pawlowski, senior director of product management for infrastructure monitoring at Dynatrace, and a senior software engineer at a U.K.-based ” Weighing the value and cost of indexed databases vs. Grail With standard index databases, teams must choose relevant indexes before data ingestion.

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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. Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure released Scope 3 data in 2021. AWS speaker: T.

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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.

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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 '?' X, but got no.

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Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dynamic WiredTiger tickets As a brief recap, WiredTiger tickets in MongoDB serve as the concurrency control mechanism within the WiredTiger storage engine. That’s very welcome after upgrade/downgrade processes when metadata is touched after FCV change. These tickets are categorized into Read tickets and Write tickets.

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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 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

MARCH 28, 2023

Every database system has to ensure durability and reliability. Journal It’s a process where every write operation gets written (appended) from Memory to a Journal file, AKA transaction log that exists on disk at a specific interval configured using “ journalCommitIntervalMs.” Let’s understand both of them.

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Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

Why not just create another database on the same instance? We split databases by function/team to give each team full autonomy over their schema, And if someone screws up, it breaks their cluster, not all databases. So you put multiple MySQL servers on a single machine instead of multiple databases inside one MySQL instance.

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in May 2023. That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups.

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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

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, the Dynatrace 2023 CIO Report found that 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. But when and how does DevOps monitoring fit into the process? The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases.

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Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

First, let’s try streaming copy from mysql57 to mysql8 server as this does not need additional storage. for this database. 23) initializing of server in progress as process 6660 2023-03-01T02:38:23.939215Z 1 [System] [MY-013576] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has started. 25 based on MySQL server 8.0.32

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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. This attribute helps take the redundant copies of the databases at multiple locations remotely on different servers or locally on the same server.

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Percona

MARCH 21, 2023

Announcement I will be speaking at Percona Live 2023 about serverless PostgreSQL. In the context of databases, a tenant’s data can be logically separated from other tenants’ data in the same database so that each tenant can only access and manage their own data. Join us at this event if you are interested!

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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. In this case, the backups should be stored on some object storage. You can find all examples from this blog post in this GitHub repository.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the 2023 Kubernetes in the Wild report , 65% of organizations use Prometheus. An essential observability engineering tool Prometheus is an open-source telemetry database service that records and stores custom software metrics and provides a standardized interface to pull (in Prometheus terms, “scrape”) data using HTTP requests.

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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

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

JUNE 23, 2023

In Percona Managed Services , one key aspect of managing the databases is configuring backups. Percona XtraBackup is one of the best tools for performing physical database backups. In order to speed up the backup process along with the compression and encryption, we can use multiple threads.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

MySQL is an outstanding open source transactional database used by most web-based applications and is very good at handling OLTP workloads. ClickHouse is a columnar database that handles analytical workloads quickly. By default, it will create a database on ClickHouse with all the tables and their data. (We No manual work!

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Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

This blog will explore the hurdles encountered during the upgrade process and the innovative solution that saved the day. 2023-05-12T08:10:38.946611Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-013894] [InnoDB] Found redo log file./ib_logfile0 2023-05-12T08:10:38.946683Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-012930] [InnoDB] Plugin initialization aborted with error Generic error.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2021 and updated in November of 2023. As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. What is the Recovery Time Objective? ” What is the Recovery Point Objective?

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Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices.

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Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

In March 2023, we discovered an issue with physical backups, which, under certain conditions, can cause the restore to fail ( PBM-1058 ). or earlier, and your dbPath contains a trailing slash (for example dbPath is /var/lib/mongodb/), the backup process fails to correctly trim the dbPath from the file path. With PBM v2.0.0,

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. The key factor is that the whole data structure resides in the same location (node), facilitating the operations.

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Snapshot backup/restore Technical Preview As already promised during Percona Live 2023, it’s my pleasure to deliver on that promise.

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Percona

JULY 2, 2023

This blog was originally written in September 2018 and was updated in June 2023. The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2019 and was updated in September 2023. Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. It specifies how characters are converted into binary code and vice-versa.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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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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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. Check out this blog here !

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables but still gets treated as a single table by the SQL layer. So, What is MySQL Partitioning? Additionally, MySQL 8.0

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