Encrypted and incremental MySQL backups with Percona XtraBackup
We’ve recently received a number of questions on how to implement incremental MySQL backups alongside encryption with Percona XtraBackup. Some users thought it was not initially possible because with...
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Benchmark: SimpleHTTPServer vs pyclustercheck (twisted implementation)
Github user Adrianlzt provided a python-twisted alternative version of pyclustercheck per discussion on issue 7.Due to sporadic performance issues noted with the original implementation in...
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How to improve InnoDB performance by 55% for write-bound loads
During April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014, I attended a talk on MySQL 5.7 performance an scalability given by Dimitri Kravtchuk, the Oracle MySQL benchmark specialist. He mentioned at...
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Location for InnoDB tablespace in MySQL 5.6.6
There is one new feature in MySQL 5.6 that didn’t get the attention it deserved (at least from me ) : “DATA DIRECTORY” for InnoDB tables.This is implemented since MySQL 5.6.6 and can be used only at...
View ArticleGetting to know TokuDB for MySQL
During last April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, TokuDB celebrated it’s first full-year as an open source storage engine. I still remember reading the official announcement and the...
View ArticleWhy %util number from iostat is meaningless for MySQL capacity planning
Earlier this month I wrote about vmstat iowait cpu numbers and some of the comments I got were advertising the use of util% as reported by the iostat tool instead. I find this number even more useless...
View ArticleTokuDB tips: MySQL backups
In my recent post, “TokuDB gotchas: slow INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES,” I saw a couple questions and tweets asking if we use TokuDB in production. Actually I mentioned it in that post and we also blogged...
View ArticleReference architecture for a write-intensive MySQL deployment
We designed Percona Cloud Tools (both hardware and software setup) to handle a very high-intensive MySQL write workload. For example, we already observe inserts of 1bln+ datapoints per day. So I wanted...
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Percona Live MySQL Conference Highlights
The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 was March 31st through April 4th in Santa Clara, California. I heard numerous positive comments from attendees and saw even more on social media. Our...
View ArticleEncrypted and incremental MySQL backups with Percona XtraBackup
We’ve recently received a number of questions on how to implement incremental MySQL backups alongside encryption with Percona XtraBackup. Some users thought it was not initially possible because with...
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Benchmark: SimpleHTTPServer vs pyclustercheck (twisted implementation)
Github user Adrianlzt provided a python-twisted alternative version of pyclustercheck per discussion on issue 7.Due to sporadic performance issues noted with the original implementation in...
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How to improve InnoDB performance by 55% for write-bound loads
During April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014, I attended a talk on MySQL 5.7 performance an scalability given by Dimitri Kravtchuk, the Oracle MySQL benchmark specialist. He mentioned at...
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Location for InnoDB tablespace in MySQL 5.6.6
There is one new feature in MySQL 5.6 that didn’t get the attention it deserved (at least from me ) : “DATA DIRECTORY” for InnoDB tables.This is implemented since MySQL 5.6.6 and can be used only at...
View ArticleGetting to know TokuDB for MySQL
During last April’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, TokuDB celebrated it’s first full-year as an open source storage engine. I still remember reading the official announcement and the...
View ArticleWhy %util number from iostat is meaningless for MySQL capacity planning
Earlier this month I wrote about vmstat iowait cpu numbers and some of the comments I got were advertising the use of util% as reported by the iostat tool instead. I find this number even more useless...
View ArticleTokuDB tips: MySQL backups
In my recent post, “TokuDB gotchas: slow INFORMATION_SCHEMA TABLES,” I saw a couple questions and tweets asking if we use TokuDB in production. Actually I mentioned it in that post and we also blogged...
View ArticleReference architecture for a write-intensive MySQL deployment
We designed Percona Cloud Tools (both hardware and software setup) to handle a very high-intensive MySQL write workload. For example, we already observe inserts of 1bln+ datapoints per day. So I wanted...
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MySQL 101: Monitor Disk I/O with pt-diskstats
Here on the Percona Support team we often ask customers to retrieve disk stats to monitor disk IO and to measure block devices iops and latency. There are a number of tools available to monitor IO on...
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MySQL Replication: ‘Got fatal error 1236′ causes and cures
MySQL replication is a core process for maintaining multiple copies of data – and replication is a very important aspect in database administration. In order to synchronize data between master and...
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Autumn: A season of MySQL-related conferences. Here’s my list
Autumn is a season of MySQL-related conferences and I’m about to hit the road to speak and attend quite a few of them.This week I’ll participate in All Things Open, a local conference for me here in...
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