Join Percona’s CTO Vadim Tkachenko @VadimTk and Altinity’s Co-Founder, Alexander Zaitsev as they present Supercharge Your Analytics with ClickHouse on Thursday, September 14, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).
ClickHouse is a real-time analytical database system. Even though they’re only celebrating one year as open source software, it has already proved itself ready for serious …
[Read more]In this post I’ll answer questions I received in my Wednesday, July 19, 2017, webinar Learning MySQL 5.7!
First, thank you all who attended the webinar. The link to the slides and the webinar recording can be found here.
I received a number of interesting questions in the webinar that I’ve followed up with below.
Would there be a big difference on passing from 5.1 to 5.6 before going to 5.7 or, at this point, would it be roughly the same?
The biggest risk of jumping between versions, in this case 5.1 to 5.6, is reverting in case of problems. Rollbacks don’t happen often, but they do happen and you have to make …
[Read more]Join Percona’s, Senior Architect, Matthew Boehm as he presents MySQL Disk Encryption with LUKS on Wednesday, August 2, 2017, at 1:00 pm PDT / 4:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).
Clients require strong security measures for PCI, HIPAA or PHI. You must encrypt MySQL “at rest” to satisfy the data managed under these standards. InnoDB’s built-in encryption features work, but there are some caveats to that solution.
In this talk, you’ll see how to encrypt your entire disk to protect everything from data, redo logs and binary logs.
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[Read more]Join Percona’s, Architect, Manjot Singh as he presents Database Backup and Recovery Best Practices (with a Focus on MySQL) on Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).
In the case of a failure, do you know how long it will take to restore your database? Do you know how old the backup will be? In this presentation, we will cover the basics of best practices for backup, restoration and business continuity. Don’t put your company on the line due to bad data retention and backup policies.
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[Read more]In this post, we’ll look at strategies for backups and disaster recovery.
Note: I am giving a talk on Backups and Disaster Recovery Best Practices on July 27th.
When discussing disaster recovery, it’s important to take your business’ continuity plan into consideration. Backup and recovery processes are a critical part of any application infrastructure.
A well-tested backup and recovery system can be the difference between a minor outage and the end of your business.
You will want to take …
[Read more]In this blog post, I’ll look at a trick we use at Percona when upgrading to MySQL 5.7.
I’ll be covering this subject (and others) in my webinar Learning MySQL 5.7 on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.
We’ve been doing upgrades for quite a while here are Percona, and we try to optimize, standardize and improve this process to save time. When upgrading to MySQL 5.7, more often than not you need to run REPAIR or ALTER via mysql_upgrade to a number of MySQL tables. Sometimes a few hundred, sometimes hundreds of thousands.
One way to cut some time from testing or executing mysql_upgrade is to combine it with mysqlcheck. This identifies tables that need to be rebuilt or repaired. The first …
[Read more]Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents Securing Your MySQL/MariaDB Data on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7).
This webinar will discuss the features of MySQL/MariaDB that when enabled and used improve the default usage of MySQL. Many cloud-based applications fail to:
Join Percona’s Solutions Engineer, Dimitri Vanoverbeke as he presents Security and Encryption in the MySQL World on Thursday, July 6, 2017, at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7).
MySQL and MariaDB Server provide many new features that help with security and encryption, both of which are extremely important in today’s world. Learn how to use these features, from roles to at-rest-encryption, to increase security. At the end of the webinar, you should understand how to have a securely configured MySQL instance!
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[Read more]Join Percona’s Senior Architect, Matthew Boehm, as he presents Indexes – What You Need to Know to Get the Most Out of Them on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT (UTC-7).
Proper indexing is key to database performance. Find out how MySQL uses indexes for query execution, and then how to come up with an optimal index strategy. In this session, you’ll also learn how to know when you need an index, and also how to get rid of indexes that you don’t need to speed up queries.
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[Read more]Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents MariaDB Server 10.2: The Complete Guide on Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7).
The new MariaDB Server 10.2 release is out. It has some interesting new features, but beyond just a list of features we need to understand how to use them. This talk will go over everything new that MariaDB 10.2 has to offer.
In this webinar, we’ll learn about Window functions, common table expressions, finer-grained CREATE USER statements, and more – including getting mysqlbinlog up to parity with MySQL. …
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