#MySQL articles

Building a Database DBA Lab with Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Percona Monitoring and Management How I built a local database playground, learned a few lessons...

In our previous blog post ProxySQL HA with BGP ECMP Anycast, we established why we would want to use BGP ECMP as a strategy for making our ProxySQL cluster high...

This post collects the main things Marco Tusa covered in his keynote at Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam: where Percona stands on MySQL, which features landed in ...

Percona gives us room to work on our own AI-assisted projects, and I used mine to fix a problem I kept running into. Every time I wanted to try a new database f...

When setting up a new database for an application, high availability (HA) is one of the main priorities. Let’s assume for this example that you chose to use a P...

Two recent posts on the Percona blog caught my attention. In Replicating from InnoDB into a DuckDB storage engine and The DuckDB MySQL engine at 500 GB, Evgeniy...

A MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides high availability for a single database cluster using Group Replication. This works well for node failures inside the cluster, b...

Introduction Many MySQL configurations inherit redo log sizing from defaults, aging blog posts, or configuration folklore....

Starting with version 1.1.0, the Percona Kubernetes Operator for MySQL now supports incremental backups. This feature lets you backup only the changed data sinc...

At Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help...

Introduction Many MySQL setups begin life with a familiar incantation:...

MySQL Security Best Practices: A Practical Guide for Locking Down Your Database Introduction MySQL runs just about everywhere. I’ve seen it behind small persona...

There is a special kind of boredom that only database people know. The kind where you stare at a server humming along and think, surely there is something here ...

Configuring the Component Keyring in Percona Server and PXC 8.4 (Or: how to make MySQL encryption boring, which is the goal)...

Percona Toolkit 3.7.1 has been released on Dec 17, 2025. The most important updates in this version are:...