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MySQL Security Webinar: Follow-up Q&A 26 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar on MySQL security; hopefully you’ve all gone out and set SELinux to enforcing mode if you weren’t already running that way. If you weren’t able to a...
Amazon RDS with MySQL 5.6 – Configuration Variables 21 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
One longstanding complaint I have heard for the past several years, and still hear today, is that Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) does not allow the configuration flexibility as running MyS...
Why is the ibdata1 file continuously growing in MySQL? 20 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
We receive this question about the ibdata1 file in MySQL very often in Percona Support. The panic starts when the monitoring server sends an alert about the storage of the MySQL server – saying that ...
MySQL 5.6 – Security vs Ease of Use 17 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
MySQL 5.6 surely changes the game when it comes to Security vs Ease of use. Before MySQL 5.6 we would get default MySQL installation being pretty insecure – the user “root” will be created with no pas...
MySQL Security: Armoring Your Dolphin 16 Aug 2013 | 01:21 pm
My colleague and teammate Ernie Souhrada will be presenting a webinar on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 10 a.m. PDT titled “MySQL Security: Armoring Your Dolphin.” This is a popular topic with news br...
Percona University at Washington, D.C. – Sept. 12 15 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Following our events earlier this year in Raleigh, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Portland, we bring Percona University to Washington, D.C. on September 12. This free one-day technical educati...
Getting Percona PAM to work with Percona Server & its client apps 14 Aug 2013 | 12:46 pm
Percona Server is bundled with the PAM plugin which opens a plethora of ways to authenticate to MySQL such as restricting time when users can connect to MySQL, authenticate via a USB key, authenticate...
Want to archive tables? Use Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver 12 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
Percona Toolkit’s pt-archiver is one of the best utilities to archive the records from large tables to another tables or files. One interesting thing is that pt-archiver is a read-write tool. It delet...
Can you really be Bias free ? 11 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
When we started Percona about 7 years ago one of the ideas behind the business was to provide customer focused services, which I refereed to as “bias free” at the time. What do I mean by customer foc...
Percona XtraBackup 2.1.4 is now available 9 Aug 2013 | 06:43 pm
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.4 on August 9th, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. This release is the cur...
