Wed.Jan 04, 2023

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Speed Up of the WAL Archiving in PostgreSQL 15

Percona

Last time I blogged about the New WAL Archive Module/Library feature available in PostgreSQL 15 , which is quite transformative in how WALs are archived today in PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 15 has many more improvements related to WAL archiving, which is worth discussing. In this blog, I would like to highlight some of them which solve great operational challenges for many of the PostgreSQL users.

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Deep Dive into MySQL’s Performance Schema

Percona

Recently I was working with a customer wherein our focus was to carry out a performance audit of their multiple MySQL database nodes. We started looking into the stats of the performance schema. While working, the customer raised two interesting questions: how can he make complete use of the performance schema, and how can he find what he requires? I realized that it is important to understand the insights of the performance schema and how we can make effective use of it.

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Duplicate, Redundant, and Invisible Indexes

Percona

MySQL index is a data structure used to optimize the performance of database queries at the expense of additional writes and storage space to keep the index data structure up to date. It is used to quickly locate data without having to search every row in a table. Indexes can be created using one or more columns of a table, and each index is given a name.

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