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).

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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:

• Use appropriate filesystem permissions
• Employ TLS/SSL for connections
• Require TLS/SSL with MySQL replication
• Use external authentication plugins (LDAP, PAM, Kerberos)
• Encrypt all your data at rest …

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).

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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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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).

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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. …

Join Percona’s Senior Operations Engineer, Daniel Kowalewski as he presents Deploying MySQL in Production on Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

Register Now  MySQL is famous for being something you can install and get going in less than five minutes in terms of development. But normally you want to run MySQL in production, and at scale. This requires some planning and knowledge. So why not learn the best practices around installation, configuration, deployment and backup?

This webinar is a soup-to-nuts talk that will have you going from zero to hero in no time. It includes discussion …

Join Percona’s MySQL Practice Manager Kenny Gryp and QA Engineer, Ramesh Sivaraman as they present a high availability webinar around Percona XtraDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, MySQL Group Replication on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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What are the implementation differences between Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7, Galera Cluster 5.7 and MySQL Group Replication?

• How do they work?
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Join Percona’s CEO and Founder Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL In the Cloud: Migration, Best Practices, High Availability, Scaling on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at 10 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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Businesses are moving many of the systems and processes they once owned to offsite “service” models: Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), etc. These services are usually referred to as being “in the cloud” – meaning that the infrastructure and management of the service in …

Please join Percona’s solution engineer, Dimitri Vanoverbeke as he presents Online MySQL Backups with Percona XtraBackup on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7).

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Percona XtraBackup is a free, open source, complete online backup solution for all versions of Percona Server, MySQL® and MariaDB®. Percona XtraBackup provides:

• Fast and reliable backups
• Uninterrupted transaction processing during backups
• Savings on disk space and network bandwidth with better compression
• Automatic backup …

This blog post is a summary of the Percona Software and Roadmap Update – Q2 2017 webinar given by Peter Zaitsev on May 4, 2017. This webinar reflects changes and updates since the last update (Q1 2017).

A full recording of this webinar, along with the presentation slide deck, can be found here.

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Below are the latest and upcoming features in Percona’s software. All of Percona’s software is 100% free and open source, with no …

In this blog post, we’ll look at MyRocks and the

LOCK IN SHARE MODE

.

Those who attended the March 30th webinar “MyRocks Troubleshooting” might remember our discussion with Yoshinori on 

LOCK IN SHARE MODE

.

I did more tests, and I can confirm that his words are true:

LOCK IN SHARE MODE

 works in MyRocks.

This quick example demonstrates this. The initial setup:

CREATE TABLE t (
id int(11) NOT NULL,
f varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=ROCKSDB;
insert into t values(12345, 'value1'), (54321, 'value2');

In session 1: …

In this blog, we will provide answers to the Q & A for the TokuDB Troubleshooting webinar.

First, we want to thank everybody for attending the March 22, 2017 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that we were unable to answer during the webinar:

Q: Is it possible to load specific tables or data from the backup?

A: Do you mean the backup created by TokuBackup? No, this is not possible. You have to restore the full backup to a temporary instance, then perform a logical …