by Kenny Gryp | Jan 4, 2018 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Security
In this blog post, we examine the recent revelations about CPU security vulnerabilities.The beginning of the new year also brings to light fresh and new CPU security vulnerabilities. Today’s big offenders originate on the hardware side – more... by Kenny Gryp | Jun 23, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
Thank you for attending the Wednesday, June 21, 2017 high availability webinar titled Percona XtraDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, MySQL Group Replication. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for that webinar.You can find the slides and a recording... by Kenny Gryp | Feb 27, 2017 | MySQL, Security
This blog post examines the recent MySQL® ransomware attacks, and what open source database security best practices could have prevented them.Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that there has been an uptick in ransomware for MongoDB and... by Kenny Gryp | Jan 20, 2017 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
In this blog, we’ll look at how to manually build Percona Server for MySQL RPM packages.Several customers and other people from the open source community have asked us how they could make their own Percona Server for MySQL RPM binaries from scratch.This... by Kenny Gryp | Jan 12, 2017 | MySQL, Security
If you are using Percona XtraBackup with xbcrypt to create encrypted backups, and are using versions older than 2.3.6 or 2.4.5, we advise that you upgrade Percona XtraBackup.Note: this does not affect encryption of encrypted InnoDB tables.... by Kenny Gryp | Sep 12, 2016 | MySQL, Security
In this blog post, I will discuss the CVE-2016-6662 vulnerability, how to tell if it affects you, and how to prevent the vulnerability from affecting you if you have an older version of MySQL.I’ll also list which MySQL versions include the vulnerability... by Kenny Gryp | Apr 6, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Live
This blog post will discuss what is necessary of the Percona Live Advanced Percona XtraDB Cluster tutorial.Percona Live 2016 is happening in April! If you are attending, and you are registered to the Percona XtraDB Cluster (Galera) tutorial presented by Kenny... by Kenny Gryp | Mar 8, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This blog post discusses Orchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager. What is Orchestrator? Orchestrator is a replication topology manager for MySQL.It has many great features: The topology and status of the replication tree is automatically detected and... by Kenny Gryp | Jul 9, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
A while back, I made some changes to the plugin interface for pt-online-schema-change which allows custom replication checks to be written. As I was adding this functionality, I also added the –plugin option to pt-table-checksum. This was released in Percona... by Kenny Gryp | Jun 24, 2014 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Tesora, previously called Parelastic, asked Percona to do a sysbench benchmark evaluation of its Database Virtualization Engine on specific architectures on Amazon EC2.The focus of Tesora is to provide a scalable Database As A Service platform for OpenStack. The... by Kenny Gryp | Jan 27, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events
This weekend, on 1-2 February, FOSDEM 2014 will take place in Brussels, Belgium. There will be MySQL talks on Saturday in the MySQL Devroom and a MySQL Community dinner afterward.30 people have already signed up for the community dinner, we’re almost at the... by Kenny Gryp | Jan 16, 2014 | MySQL
FOSDEM is coming to town again here in Brussels this February 1-2, and as usual, there is a MySQL Devroom. Traditionally, a MySQL and Friends community dinner is also held during the event and this year is no different – we’ve organized one for... by Kenny Gryp | Oct 9, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Live
Do you want to get more familiar on how to become a MySQL DBA?Are you a developer familiar with writing applications that use MySQL but you feel a bit limited on how to manage a MySQL Database?I would like to invite you in my tutorial ‘MySQL DBA In A... by Kenny Gryp | Jul 12, 2013 | MySQL
Lefred and I spent a bit of time making innotop 1.9.1. We’ve released a new version mainly to include MySQL 5.6 support as well as including some bugs fixed by Baron Schwartz and Frédéric Descamps.You can download the .tar.gz and... by Kenny Gryp | Jan 16, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events
Just like previous years, the ‘MySQL And Friends’ community is gathering to have a dinner on the Saturdaynight of FOSDEM. This time it is on February 2nd, 2013.This year, it will not be an Italian restaurant, but more a Belgian style restaurant, about 10... by Kenny Gryp | Dec 4, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
The Web And PHP Magazine just published an article describing Percona XtraDB Cluster written by Liz van Dijk and Kenny Gryp. It is a pretty high-level introduction to the technology, so definitely give it a read if you’ve been wanting to give it a... by Kenny Gryp | Nov 19, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
Another Percona Live event is coming up, this time in London on the 3rd and 4th of December. I’m sure it is going to be as awesome as it was last year.This year, I will talk about ‘Choosing Hardware For MySQL’.Of course, the most important hardware... by Kenny Gryp | Apr 19, 2012 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona has 2 talks lined up at OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany: – Taking hot backups with XtraBackup by Alexey Kopytov – Expert Troubleshooting: Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly by Kenny GrypFeel free to come and say Hi!On April 25 & 26, 2012 the... by Kenny Gryp | Oct 25, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
Even if you didn’t make it to Percona Live London, you can get the chance to hang out with us. We’re giving a reception at the Revolution Bar America Square just a few meters walk from the Tower Hill Underground between 17:30 and 19:30 today... by Kenny Gryp | Jan 31, 2011 | MySQL, Percona Events
Kris Buytaert organized a MySQL Meetup at FOSDEM last year, and because of the success we’ll be doing it again this year, in the same restaurant: Sogno d’Italia.Everybody is invited to come to the dinner. Just... 
