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August 19, 2025
Secure, Centralized Authentication Comes to Percona Server for MongoDB with OpenID Connect
Today, Percona is proud to announce the release of OpenID Connect (OIDC) support for Percona Server for MongoDB, the source-available, [...]
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August 14, 2025
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Your MySQL database has been running smoothly for years. Your team knows it inside and out. Everything just… works. Why [...]
August 13, 2025
Webinar Q&A: No More Workarounds: Open Source PostgreSQL TDE Is Here
I would like to thank everyone who attended my webinar, “No More Workarounds: Open Source PostgreSQL TDE Is Here,” on [...]
August 7, 2025
LDAP Isn’t Going Away, and Neither Is Our Support for Percona Server for MongoDB
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August 6, 2025
MySQL 8.0 End of Life Date: What Happens Next?
If you’re running MySQL 8.0 databases, you need to know this: Oracle will stop supporting them in April 2026. That [...]
August 5, 2025
Planning Ahead for PostgreSQL 18: What Matters for Your Organization
PostgreSQL 18 is on the way, bringing a set of improvements that many organizations will find useful. It’s not a [...]
August 4, 2025
Integrating Citus with Patroni: Sharding and High Availability Together
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July 31, 2025
Security Advisory: CVE Affecting Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
A vulnerability has been discovered in all versions of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). There is no evidence this vulnerability [...]
July 31, 2025
Scalability for the Large-Scale: File Copy-Based Initial Sync for Percona Server for MongoDB
On behalf of the entire Percona product team for MongoDB, I’m excited to announce a significant enhancement to Percona Server [...]
July 30, 2025
A Practical Guide to PostgreSQL Replication with Both Asynchronous and Synchronous Standbys
PostgreSQL streaming replication allows a standby server to continuously replicate data from a primary server. It operates by streaming Write-Ahead [...]
July 28, 2025
How to Perform Rolling Index Builds with Percona Operator for MongoDB
This post explains how to perform a Rolling Index Build on a Kubernetes environment running Percona Operator for MongoDB. Why [...]
July 24, 2025
Introduction to Data Importers in Percona Everest
Percona Everest has always aimed to simplify running databases on Kubernetes. Previously, importing existing data into a new Everest database [...]
July 23, 2025
The Quirks of Index Maintenance in Open Source Databases
Index maintenance can be a real challenge for anyone managing databases, and what makes it even trickier is that open [...]
July 22, 2025
Diagnosing MySQL Crashes on RHEL with GDB: How to Identify the Database, Table, and Query Involved
When troubleshooting a MySQL crash, having only the error log is rarely enough to pinpoint the exact root cause. To [...]
July 21, 2025
Using replicaSetHorizons in MongoDB
When running MongoDB replica sets in containerized environments like Docker or Kubernetes, making nodes reachable from inside the cluster as [...]
July 18, 2025
How Can AI Talk to My Database Part Two: MySQL and Gemini
My first experiments creating an MCP Server to provide AI access to a PostgreSQL database using the FastMCP Python framework [...]
July 17, 2025
How Can AI Talk to My (PostgreSQL) Database?
I admittedly have some work to do to catch up with the AI “trend”. It’s been around (as in, easily [...]
July 14, 2025
MyDumper Refactors Locking Mechanisms
In my previous blog post, Understanding trx-consistency-only on MyDumper Before Removal, I talked about --trx-consistency-only removal, in which I explained [...]
July 10, 2025
Working with Geospatial Data? PostGIS Makes PostgreSQL Enterprise-Ready
Do you find yourself struggling with geospatial data in your database? You know the feeling: you need quick answers about [...]