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March 27, 2024
Enhancing PostgreSQL Insights with Percona Monitoring and Management: A Closer Look at Recent Updates
Database monitoring tools play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation and performance optimization of database systems, and Percona [...]
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March 27, 2024
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Percona Server for MongoDB currently has several external authentication options, such as LDAP with SASL, LDAP, Kerberos, and AWS IAM. [...]
March 26, 2024
Copying Alert Rules From One Percona Monitoring and Management Server to Another
Since Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.40.0, Grafana uses PostgreSQL instead of SQLite database to store users, dashboards, and other [...]
March 26, 2024
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March 25, 2024
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Indexes in MongoDB play a crucial role in improving the query performance and increasing the overall database efficiency. Without indexes, [...]
March 25, 2024
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Anyone working with databases knows that data is the driving force behind every online activity, and data security is always [...]
March 22, 2024
How Can I Take a Backup of Configuration Files in PostgreSQL?
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March 21, 2024
Boosting IT Productivity: The Crucial Role of ITIL Knowledge for DBAs
Comprehensive knowledge of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) processes proves advantageous for Database Administrators (DBAs) as it significantly elevates the [...]
March 21, 2024
Enable Data Checksums With Minimum Downtime in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL has a feature called data checksum which is used to detect any storage-level corruption of data pages. However, a [...]
March 20, 2024
PostgreSQL Monitoring with Percona Monitoring and Management: A Redefined Summary
When checking for how good (or bad) a PostgreSQL instance is behaving, one just wants to see everything that matters [...]
March 20, 2024
Do You Leverage Index-Only Scans in PostgreSQL? Do You Want To?
In a previous blog, One Index, Three Different PostgreSQL Scan Types: Bitmap, Index, and Index Only, we reviewed three ways [...]
March 19, 2024
Percona Monitoring and Management Database Overview Dashboard, Simplified
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) overview dashboards were always meant to be a starting point for DBAs to check the [...]
March 18, 2024
Percona XtraBackup 8.0.28 Supports Encrypted Table Backups with AWS KMS
Percona XtraBackup (PXB) version 8.0.28 supports taking backups for the encrypted tables in your MySQL database using the AWS Key [...]
March 14, 2024
The Challenge with Open Core Software
Open core is a monetization strategy for open source, where in addition to the open source version, often called “community,” [...]
March 14, 2024
Analyzing Slow Queries After MongoDB 4.4
Before MongoDB 4.4, we had a tool to use to analyze slow queries from the log file called mplotqueries from [...]
March 13, 2024
Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environments: Part Two
In Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environment: Part One, I demonstrated a basic Percona Backup [...]
March 12, 2024
Managing Time Series Data Using TimeScaleDB-Powered PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL extensions are great! Simply by adding an extension, one transforms what is an otherwise vanilla general-purpose database management system [...]
March 11, 2024
Percona Operator for MySQL Now Supports Automated Volume Expansion in Technical Preview
Volume Expansion, a feature that became generally available since Kubernetes version 1.24, allows users to increase the capacity of their [...]
March 7, 2024
The Pain of AWS EKS and Stateful Workloads
I really like AWS and the way they build their products, I really do. But for some reason, AWS Elastic [...]