#MySQL articles and events

The Percona Community Slack is open — come hang out There’s a new place for the people behind the databases to actually talk to each other....

You’ve fixed something gnarly in production this year. You’ve migrated a database that nobody wanted to touch. You’ve built something on top of Percona Operators, or Percona Toolkit, or Percona Monito...

Traditional MySQL troubleshooting assumes you control the server, but in the cloud, that assumption is gone. In this session, Sveta Smirnova will explore practical, field-tested techniques for diagnos...

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 since the last backup, instead of copying yo...

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

Percona is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of Kubecon Europe 2026, one of the most important gatherings for the cloud native and open source ecosystem. The event will take place from March 23-26, 2026, a...

MySQL Security Best Practices: A Practical Guide for Locking Down Your Database Introduction MySQL runs just about everywhere. I’ve seen it behind small personal projects, internal tools, SaaS platfor...

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 I can tune. Good news: there is....

Percona had a strong presence at FOSDEM 2026, taking place January 31 – February 1, 2026, at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium....

There’s a lot of discussion about comparing Kubernetes operators for Postgres, but what about how Postgres operators compare to operators for other databases?...

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:...

We’re excited to share that Peter Zaitsev, Founder of Percona, will present his talk “Why PostgreSQL Took the Crown from MySQL and What Lies Ahead.” After participating in Percona PGConf.EU in Riga, P...

MySQL replication has been around forever, and yet… people still manage to set it up in ways that break at the worst possible moment. Even in 2025, you can get burned by tiny schema differences, missi...