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Upstream platform vendors have announced the general end of life (EOL) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) and its derivatives, as well as Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating systems.

RHEL 5 was EOL as of March 31st, 2017 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was end of life as of April 28th, 2017. Pursuant to our end of life policies, we are announcing that these EOLs will go into effect for Percona software on August 1st, 2017. As of this date, we will no longer be producing new packages, binary builds, hotfixes, or bug fixes for Percona software on these platforms.

We generally align our platform end of life dates with those of the upstream platform vendor. The platform end of life dates are published in advance on our website under the page Supported Linux Platforms and Versions.

Per our policies, Percona will continue to provide operational support for your databases on EOLed platforms. However, we will be unable to provide any bug fixes, builds or OS-level assistance if you encounter an issue outside the database itself.

Each platform vendor has a supported migration or upgrade path to their next major release.  Please reach out to us if you need assistance in migrating your database to your vendor’s supported platform – Percona will be happy to assist you.

 Facebook has gone ahead and purchased Charles Jolley’s conversational AI startup Ozlo. Jolley, formerly Head of Platform for Android at Facebook, will not be returning to the company. The Ozlo team is expected to join Facebook to work on natural language processing challenges. Read More

Join Percona’s, Senior Architect, Matthew Boehm as he presents MySQL Disk Encryption with LUKS on Wednesday, August 2, 2017, at 1:00 pm PDT / 4:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

Clients require strong security measures for PCI, HIPAA or PHI. You must encrypt MySQL “at rest” to satisfy the data managed under these standards. InnoDB’s built-in encryption features work, but there are some caveats to that solution.

In this talk, you’ll see how to encrypt your entire disk to protect everything from data, redo logs and binary logs.

Register for the webinar here.

Matthew Boehm, Architect

Matthew joined Percona in the fall of 2012 as a MySQL consultant. His areas of knowledge include the traditional Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stack, memcached, MySQL Cluster, massive sharding topologies, PHP development and a bit of MySQL-C-API development. Previously, Matthew DBAed for the 5th largest MySQL installation at eBay/PayPal, and also hails from managed hosting environments. During his off-hours, Matthew is a nationally-ranked competitive West Coast Swing dancer, and travels to competitions around the US. He enjoys working out, camping, biking and playing MMOs with his son.

 Google today announced a small but important update to how Google Calendar and Microsoft Exchange can work together going forward. It’s not unusual for a company to still use both Google’s G Suite tools and Microsoft Exchange in parallel, and with this update, G Suite admins can now allow their users to see real-time free/busy information across the two systems. This means tools… Read More

 In an unsurprising move by credit card thieves, police have found a new credit card skimmer that sends stolen data via SMS. By tearing apart cheap phones, crooks are able to send credit card information to their location instantly without having to access the skimmer physically or rely on an open Bluetooth connection. Brian Krebs received images of the skimmer from an unnamed source. They… Read More

Percona is glad to announce the GA release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 on July 28, 2017 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.7.18, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, and you can find all the release details in the 5.7.18-16 milestone at Launchpad

Please note that RHEL 5, CentOS 5 and Ubuntu versions 12.04 and older are not supported in future releases of Percona Server and no further packages are added for these distributions.

New Features:

The release notes for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.18-16 are available in the online documentation. Please report any bugs on the launchpad bug tracker.

Note

Due to new package dependency, Ubuntu/Debian users should use apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get install percona-server-server-5.7 to upgrade.

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.6-1.6 on July 27, 2017. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories.

Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, fully compatible, highly-scalable, zero-maintenance downtime database supporting the MongoDB v3.4 protocol and drivers. It extends MongoDB with Percona Memory Engine and MongoRocks storage engine, as well as several enterprise-grade features:

• External Authentication
• Audit Logging
• Profiling Rate Limiting
• Hot Backup
• Log Redaction

Percona Server for MongoDB requires no changes to MongoDB applications or code.

This release is based on MongoDB 3.4.6 and does not include any additional changes.

 Amazon reported its second-quarter earnings today, and it was a bit of a whiff — and a bummer for Jeff Bezos, who is now no longer the solar system’s richest human and has been relegated to the unfortunate position of second-richest human. Read More

 Intel declared $14.8 billion in revenue this afternoon and earnings per share of 72 cents. This represents a solid beat as analysts had expected revenues of $14.41 billion and EPS of 68 cents. The company’s  stock finished up 22 cents and 0.63 percent to $34.97 per share in regular trading. In the moments after the company released its earnings, Intel’s stock shot up 3.43 percent. Read More

In this blog, we’ll quickly look at MySQL partitioning.

Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables, but still get treated as a single table by the SQL layer.

When partitioning, it’s a good idea to find a natural partition key. You want to ensure that table lookups go to the correct partition or group of partitions. This means that all SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE should include that column in the WHERE clause. Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather, and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent.

Generally, you must add the partition key into the primary key along with the auto increment, i.e., PRIMARY KEY (part_id,id). If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes.

You can partition by range or hash. Range is great because you have groups of known IDs in each table, and it helps when querying across partition IDs. This still can create hotspots in the newest partition, as all new inserts go there. Partitioning by hash “load balances” the table, and allows you to write to partitions more concurrently. This makes range queries on the partition key a bad idea.

In MySQL 5.7, partitioning became native to the store engine and deprecated the old method where MySQL itself had to handle the partitions. This means InnoDB partitions (and a larger amount of partitions) are a better choice than in the past.

As with all features and recommendations, this only makes sense if it helps your data and workload!