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There is an old saying that what looks like a duck and quacks like a duck is probably a duck. But what looks like MongoDB and acts like MongoDB could be Ferret...

If you read - Using the JSON data type with MySQL 8 - Part I, you will see that inserting data into MySQL of JSON type is a very common and effective practice. ...

I will tell you the real story of using database monitoring tools when developing an application. I will show you an example of how I managed to detect and fix ...

Recently, I’ve noticed several posts on the Percona Community blog about test data generation. This is a great trend, as such data enables us to test applicatio...

ProxySQL is a great load balancer which however suffers from some shortcomings concerning the management of MySQL users. ProxySQL provides a firewall which, in ...

Let’s discuss the structure of our simple PHP application, folders, files, and functions and transform the project to grow it....

We learn how to work with HTTP requests in PHP and make API requests using the GitHub API as an example. We’ll get the data from the API and save it to the data...

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.36 preview release Hello folks! Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.36 is now available as a preview release....

I’m developing an application that takes data from different sources, processes it, and prepares reports. In this series of articles, I will explain how to inst...

MySQL 8.0.32 came out recently and had some important bugfixes contributed by Perconians. Here is a brief overview of the work done....

If you are a mobile app, frontend, backend, or game developer, you use data types such as string, numeric, or DateTime. You also know that since the advent of n...

Basic Usage mysqldump is a client utility that can be used for doing logical backups. It will generate the necessary SQL statements to reproduce the original da...

In this post, we will cover the value of database monitoring and how we can use Open Source tools like PMM Percona Monitoring and Management to monitor and mana...

As any developer, I don’t like to write documentation. But if I am writing it, I would like to test that what I wrote works. I often found myself copy-pasting s...

In this blog, we will explore databases on containers. We will use Docker as a container engine tool and Percona Server for MySQL as a database administration t...