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January 14, 2025
What Hurts in PostgreSQL Part One: Temporary Tables
PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful database systems in the world. I have always been passionate about its great [...]
December 20, 2024
MySQL Transaction ERROR 1412 and Isolation Levels
This blog post explains the cause of “ERROR 1412 (HY000): Table definition has changed, please retry transaction” with the specific [...]
December 18, 2024
How To Deal with a AUTO_INCREMENT Max Value Problem in MySQL and MariaDB
An application down due to not being able to write into a table anymore due to a maximum allowed auto-increment [...]
September 5, 2024
How to Upgrade a Kubernetes Cluster
I still remember upgrading a Kubernetes cluster for the first time. Despite taking great care and following all the documentation, [...]
August 8, 2024
MySQL Router and RestAPI – What Do They Have in Common?
The usage of MySQL Router as a Middleware/Proxy/Router has increased along with the rise in MySQL InnoDB Cluster usage. While [...]
July 8, 2024
Ensure the Correct Repositories are Enabled for Percona Packages
As announced in Percona’s Important Update, effective July 1st, the percona/original and tools repositories will no longer be updated. This [...]
June 24, 2024
Understanding Basic Flow Control Activity in MySQL Group Replication: Part One
Flow control is not a new term, and we have already heard it a lot of times in Percona XtraDB [...]
June 5, 2024
Administering a Patroni Managed PostgreSQL Cluster
There are quite a number of methods these days for installing Patroni. I want to discuss the next step, which [...]
May 28, 2024
Valkey/Redis Sharding Using the Native Clustering Feature
In this blog post, we are going to implement the concept of sharding in a Valkey setup. This is a [...]
May 24, 2024
Upcoming Percona University Events – France, Germany, and India
Experience a full day of deep-dive technical sessions and meet database experts and a community of open source database users, [...]
May 23, 2024
Beyond Cloud: The Impact of AI Agents on Platform Engineering
In November 2023, Bill Gates wrote an article about how AI would change the way we interact with computers and personal [...]
May 16, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Not-So-Good Practices
As we’ve been introducing Valkey/Redis these past few weeks, let’s depart from the norm and talk about a few “things [...]
May 15, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Configuration Best Practices
In a few of our previous blog posts, we’ve seen how to get started with Valkey/Redis by running a simple [...]
May 14, 2024
Valkey/Redis: The Hash Datatype
In our previous blogs, we discussed the basic data types available in Valkey/Redis: Strings, Lists, Sets, and Sorted Sets. In [...]
May 13, 2024
Valkey/Redis Replication and Auto-Failover With Sentinel Service
In this Valkey blog post, I will demonstrate how we can set up a simple replication process among the Valkey [...]
May 9, 2024
Valkey/Redis: Sets and Sorted Sets
In our previous post, we welcomed Valkey (an open source fork of Redis) to the Percona family. We also learned [...]
May 7, 2024
Hello World… Hello Valkey! Let’s Get Started!
Welcome Valkey to the Percona family! We are excited to have you join our team of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB [...]
May 6, 2024
Valkey/Redis Configurations and Persistent Setting of the Key Parameters
Since Valkey (a fork of Redis) is around the corner, I thought to write a short blog post about some [...]
April 30, 2024
LDAP Authentication in PgBouncer Through PAM
There are many cases where external connection poolers like pgBouncer become unavoidable despite the costs and complexities associated with them. [...]
April 17, 2024
Switch PostgreSQL Environments Across AWS, GCP, and k3d Using Kubernetes Contexts
This article explains how to install the Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using “context”. We will show you how [...]