This is the 5th blog in series of Maxscale blog, Below is the list of our previous blogs, Which provides deep insight for Maxscale and its use cases for different architectures.

• Scale with Maxscale part -1 (Intro & Galera Cluster)
• Scale with Maxscale part – 2 (Administration, Installation & operation)
• Scale with Maxscale part – 3 (Replication M-S)
• …

Encryption is a very important form of security and It’s becoming a standard from a compliance perspective to ensure PCI, PII and HIPPA compliances. Encryption needs to be performed for Data at Rest, Data over Wire.

Data At Rest:

• Until 5.6, To encrypt the MySQL data files, Only disk level encryption possible (Gazzang, Luks)
• From 5.7.11 MySQL added a feature for tablespace encryption. Which encrypts only the …

In this blog post, We will be explaining about the timeouts in SST on systemd implementation which we faced recently in Percona XtraDB Cluster  during our Consulting with a client. State Snapshot Transfers (SST) refers to complete data sync from one of the nodes from the cluster to the joining node.

SST will happen for one or more reasons listed below.

1. Initial sync to join a node to cluster.
2. Node is out of cluster and lost its ability to join back due to data corruption or inconsistencies and also when the node went far behind the node, …

In this post, We will learn how to handle online schema change if the table has triggers.

In PXC, an alter can be made directly ( TOI ) on tables with less than a 1G ( by default) , but on a 20GB or 200GB table we need some downtime to do ( RSU ).

Pt-osc is a good choice for Percona Cluster/Galera. By default percona toolkit’s pt-online-schema-change will create After “insert / update / delete” triggers for maintaining the sync between the shadow and the original table.

pt-online-schema-change process flow:

Check out the complete slides for effective MySQL administration here

If the tables has triggers already then pt-osc wont work well in …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

In case you missed last week’s column, don’t forget to read the fairly lengthy FOSDEM MySQL & Friends DevRoom summary.

From a Percona Live Santa Clara 2018 standpoint, beyond the tutorials getting picked and scheduled, the talks have also been picked and scheduled (so you were very likely getting acceptance emails from the Hubb.me system by Tuesday). The rejections have not gone out yet but will follow soon. I expect the schedule to go live either today (end of week) or early next week. Cheapest tickets end March 4, so …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.8.

Changelog

• Add MySQL 5.7 support
• Changed a canary check to use timestamp.now() and return a timedelta.seconds
• Remove an additional condition for the Dictionary memory allocated
• Fixed a false-positive problem when the calculated delay was less than 0 and the -m was not set.
• Fixed the problem where slaves would alert due to deadlocks on the master.
• If using pt-heartbeat, get_slave_status was only called when the -s option is set to …

Xtrabackup is the most widely open source hot backup tool for MySQL. Xtrabackup support InnoDB and MyISAM engines.It supports both MySQL Server , Percona Server and MariaDB. This presentation covers some of the important features in Xtrabackup.

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Thank you for attending my webinar on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, InnoDB Performance Optimization. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the webinar.

Are the T2 CPUs similar to the M4 series?

I would expect them to be similar. Amazon does not disclose what specific version of CPUs they use for T2 instances. More details are available here.

Delay in spinlock code is pretty old code. Need to optimize based on today’s CPU? Your views?

There have been a number of improvements to the InnoDB Spinlock code during the last few years. For example, using CPU …

In 2017 we have welcomed many new customers into the Percona fold. It’s always interesting to find out what challenges the Percona team helped them to address and how they chose their relationship with Percona. As unbiased champions of open source database software, our consultancy, support and managed services staff apply their expertise across a wide range of technologies. Here are just a few stories from the past year.

Scaling applications on Amazon RDS the right way

Specializing in on-demand transportation services, Grab needed a high-availability, high performing database engine to serve their rapidly growing application. Grab operates in over 30 densely populated …

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2017.

The closing of a year lends itself to looking back. And making lists. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. We’ve had over three and a half million visits to the blog in 2017: thank you! We look forward to providing you with even better articles, news and information in 2018.

As 2017 moves into 2018, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year.

Top 10 Most Read

These posts had the most number of views (working down from the highest):

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