Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.
We are five weeks out to the conference! The tutorials and the sessions have been released, and there’s an added bonus – you can now look at all this in a grid view: tutorials, day one and day two. Now that you can visualize what’s being offered, don’t forget to register.
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[Read more]A MariaDB Support customer recently asked how they could automatically drop old partitions after 6 months. MariaDB and MySQL do not have a mechanism to do this automatically out-of-the-box, but it is not too difficult to create a custom stored procedure and an event to call the procedure on the desired schedule. In this blog post, I will show one ... Read More
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.
Has a week passed already? Welcome back to the second column. A lot of time has been spent neck deep in getting speakers accepted and scheduled for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 in Dublin, as well organizing the conference sponsors.
Percona Live Europe Dublin
At the time of writing, we are six weeks away from the conference, so a little over a month! Have you registered yet? …
[Read more]Welcome to a new weekly column on the Percona blog. My name is Colin Charles, Percona Chief Evangelist, and I have been involved in MySQL, MariaDB Server and the open source community for over a decade. Now I am at Percona, and this is my weekly column.
When you start a column, you have ask yourself what you’ll be writing about. Keeping the focus on the reader is what’s crucial. With this in mind, I plan to cover happenings, pointers and maybe even musings in this column. It’s August, and while many are away on summer vacations, there’s still plenty happening in the database world. So maybe this will be a little like the now-defunct, Weekly MySQL News. It will be broader than just MySQL, however, and focus on open source databases (after all, Percona’s mission is to …
[Read more]The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.32, as well as the recent releases of as MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.1 (beta), MariaDB Connector/J 2.1.0 and MariaDB Connector/J 1.6.3. See the release notes and changelog for details. Download MariaDB 10.0.32 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository […]
The post MariaDB 10.0.32 and Connectors now available appeared first on MariaDB.org.
One of the new graphs added to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is saturation metrics. This blog post explains how to use the information provided by these graphs.
You might have heard about Brendan Gregg’s USE Method (Utilization-Saturation-Errors) as a way to analyze the performance of any system. Our goal in PMM is to support this method fully over time, and these graphs take us one step forward.
When it comes to utilization, there are many graphs available in PMM. There is the CPU Usage graph: …
[Read more]Upstream platform vendors have announced the general end of life (EOL) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) and its derivatives, as well as Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating systems.
RHEL 5 was EOL as of March 31st, 2017 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was end of life as of April 28th, 2017. Pursuant to our end of life policies, we are announcing that these EOLs will go into effect for Percona software on August 1st, 2017. As of this date, we will no longer be producing new packages, binary builds, hotfixes, or bug fixes for Percona software on these platforms.
We …
[Read more]One of the goals of the MariaDB Foundation is to help new contributors understand the source code and to lower the barrier for new participants. One way to measure this is to look at the number of pull requests received and accepted, as these mostly reflect community contributions. The figures below are for the main […]
The post Community contributions to MariaDB appeared first on MariaDB.org.
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In this post, we’ll use a blog poll to find out what operating system you use to run your development database servers.
In our last blog poll, we looked at what OS you use for your production database. Now we would like to see what you use for your development database.
As databases grow to meet more challenges and expanding application demands, they must try and get the maximum amount of performance out of available resources. How they work with an operating system can affect many variables, and help or hinder performance. The operating system you use for your database can impact consumable choices (such as hardware and memory). The operating system you use can also impact your choice of database engine as well (or vice versa).
When new projects, new applications or services or testing new architecture …
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