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 5.6.20, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.20-68.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free. …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.39-36.0 on August 29, 2014 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.39, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.39-36.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the  …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.39-36.0 on August 29, 2014 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.39, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.39-36.0 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the  …

The need to have multiple instances of MySQL (the well-known mysqld process) running in the same server concurrently in a transparent way, instead of having them executed in separate containers/virtual machines, is not very common. Yet from time to time the Percona Support team receives a request from a customer to assist in the configuration of such an environment. MySQL provides a tool to facilitate the execution of multiple instances called mysqld_multi:

“mysqld_multi is designed to manage several mysqld processes that listen for connections on different Unix socket files and TCP/IP ports. It can start or stop servers, or report their current status.”

For tests and development purposes, …

The need to have multiple instances of MySQL (the well-known mysqld process) running in the same server concurrently in a transparent way, instead of having them executed in separate containers/virtual machines, is not very common. Yet from time to time the Percona Support team receives a request from a customer to assist in the configuration of such an environment. MySQL provides a tool to facilitate the execution of multiple instances called mysqld_multi:

“mysqld_multi is designed to manage several mysqld processes that listen for connections on different Unix socket files and TCP/IP ports. It can start or stop servers, or report their current status.”

For tests and development purposes, …

In a previous post, my colleague Dimitri Vanoverbeke discussed at a high level the concepts of database as a service (DBaaS), OpenStack and OpenStack’s implementation of a DBaaS, Trove. Today I’d like to delve a bit further into Trove and discuss where it fits in, and who benefits.

Just to recap, Trove is OpenStack’s implementation of a database as a service for its cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS). And as the mission statement declares, the Trove project seeks to provide a scalable and reliable cloud database service providing functionality for both relational and non-relational database engines. With the current release of Icehouse, the technology has begun to show maturity providing both stability and a rich feature set.

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In my last post, “A closer look at the MySQL ibdata1 disk space issue and big tables,” I looked at the growing ibdata1 problem under the perspective of having big tables residing inside the so-called shared tablespace. In the particular case that motivated that post, we had a customer running out of disk space in his server who was looking for a way to make the ibdata1 file shrink. As you may know, that file (or, as explained there, the set of ibdata files composing the shared tablespace) stores all InnoDB tables created when innodb_file_per_table is disabled, but also other InnoDB structures, such as undo logs and data dictionary.

For example, when you run a transaction involving InnoDB tables, MySQL will first write all the changes it triggers in an undo log, for the case you later …

In my last post, “A closer look at the MySQL ibdata1 disk space issue and big tables,” I looked at the growing ibdata1 problem under the perspective of having big tables residing inside the so-called shared tablespace. In the particular case that motivated that post, we had a customer running out of disk space in his server who was looking for a way to make the ibdata1 file shrink. As you may know, that file (or, as explained there, the set of ibdata files composing the shared tablespace) stores all InnoDB tables created when innodb_file_per_table is disabled, but also other InnoDB structures, such as undo logs and data dictionary.

For example, when you run a transaction involving InnoDB tables, MySQL will first write all the changes it triggers in an undo log, for the case you later decide to …

The Percona team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Percona Software packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7.

With more than 1 million downloads and thousands of production deployments at small, mid-size and large enterprises, Percona software is a industry leading distribution that enhances the performance, scale, management and diagnosis of MySQL deployments.

This new packages bring the benefits of Percona Software to developers and administrators that are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7.

The new packages are available from our testing repository. The packages included are: :

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MySQL plays a critical role in OpenStack. It serves as the host database supporting most components such as Nova, Glance, and Keystone and is the most mature guest database in Trove. Many OpenStack operators use Percona open source software including the MySQL drop-in compatible Percona Server and Galera-based Percona XtraDB Cluster as well as tools such as Percona XtraBackup and Percona Toolkit. We see a need in the community to understand how to improve MySQL performance …