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Tips for Upgrading Percona XtraDB Cluster to 8.0
MySQL 8.0 has been available for a while and Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 has also been available for some time as well. Also, MySQL 5.6 is coming up to its End-of-Life and people using PXC 5.6 will also...
View ArticleTips Upgrading Percona Server for MongoDB
Percona Server for MongoDB is a MongoDB open source distribution powered by Percona. It is a free, fully compatible and drop in replacement for MongoDB Community edition. It also provides “enterprise...
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Using Barman for PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery
There must be many powerful tools available as a backup and restore option for PostgreSQL in general; Barman, PgBackRest, BART are to name a few in this context. What caught our attention was that...
View ArticleTop Open Source Tools for MySQL & MariaDB Migrations
Large organizations that are using MySQL or MariaDB database platforms are often faced with a need to perform a database migration from one place to another. Regardless of the platform, type of...
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Migrating from Maxscale to the ProxySQL Load Balancer
A database load balancer, or proxy, is a middleware service between application layer and database layer. Application connects to the database proxy, and the proxy forwards the connection to the...
View ArticleMigrating Amazon RDS (MySQL or MariaDB) to an On-Prem Server
Amazon Web Services is a technology giant, especially when it comes to pioneering itself in top-of-the-line cloud computing services. Its fully managed services products (Amazon RDS) is one of a kind....
View ArticleAn Overview of PostgreSQL 13 libpq sslpassword Connection Parameters
PostgreSQL since long has supported SSL connections and also certificate-based authentication mechanisms. Although nothing in this regard seems to be new for the PostgreSQL world. However, a small...
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Tips for Migrating from HAProxy to ProxySQL
ProxySQL is a dedicated load balancer for MySQL which comes with a variety of features including, but not limited to query redirecting, query caching or traffic shaping. It can be used to easily set up...
View ArticleTop Open Source Tools for PostgreSQL Migrations
Database migration is the process of migrating data from one or more source databases to one or more target databases by using a service or tool. There are different types of migrations. You can...
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Migrating Google Cloud SQL for MySQL to an On-Prem Server
Google Cloud SQL for MySQL is a fully-managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your MySQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform. However, there are...
View ArticleMigrating Azure Database for MySQL/MariaDB to an On-Prem Server
Database migrations can impose huge challenges when you consider how to start, what tools to use, and how to achieve a full database migration successfully. Earlier, we have listed the top open source...
View ArticleUsing the Percona Audit Log Plugin for Database Security
Why Do You Need To Use an Audit Plugin For Your Database?Auditing in a database doesn't deviate from its meaning as it shares the same connotation i.e. to inspect, examine, and evaluate for such...
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An Overview of the Percona XtraDB Cluster Kubernetes Operator
If you have been around in the container world, you would know that it is pretty challenging to adopt a full Kubernetes automation for a clustered database system, which commonly adds a level of...
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Monitoring Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL - Key Metrics
Monitoring is the base to know if your systems are working properly, and it allows you to fix or prevent any issue before affecting your business. Even in a robust technology like PostgreSQL,...
View ArticleGetting Started with the MongoDB Go Driver
In March 2019 the official, production-ready GO driver for MongoDB was released and it’s been receiving continuous updates from its launch. In this tutorial, we will learn to do simple MongoDB CRUD...
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How to Deploy Percona Server for MongoDB for High Availability
High availability is a must when you run critical services in your production environment. It can be achieved by eliminating all single points of failures, including the database tier. So you can...
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Asynchronous Replication Automatic Failover in MySQL 8.0.22
Oracle recently released MySQL 8.0.22, and this new version came with a new asynchronous connection failover mechanism. It allows a replica to automatically establish a new asynchronous replication...
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How to Deploy Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL for High Availability
High Availability is a requirement for many systems, no matter what technology you are using. This is especially important for databases, as they store data that applications rely upon. Depending on...
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How to Deploy Percona Server for MySQL for High Availability
Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 offers a number of clustering solutions for high availability out-of-the-box:Single-master:Asynchronous replicationSemi synchronous replicationMulti-master:Group...
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How to Deploy Percona XtraDB Cluster
Percona XtraDB Cluster is a cluster solution based on the synchronous replication handled by Galera library. It is one of the most common high availability solutions for MySQL. It supports multiple...
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