We at Severalnines are thrilled to announce the release of CCX, our brand new database as a service (DBaaS) offering!  It’s a fully managed service built atop the powerful ClusterControl automated operational database management...

Taking care of the security of your MySQL instances is a near-daily task of almost every MySQL DBA. Today, we will look into how you should go about automating security audits for MySQL. Why Automate...

Upgrades are always a hard and time-consuming task. First, you should test your application in a test environment, so, ideally, you will need to clone your current production environment for this. Then, you need to...

Upgrading your database for Galera-based clusters such as Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) or MariaDB Galera Cluster can be challenging, especially for a production-based environment. You cannot afford to lose the state of your high availability...

Having a test environment is a must in all companies. It could be necessary for testing changes or new releases of the application, or even for testing your existing application with a new PostgreSQL version....

Release tests are typically one of the steps in the whole deployment process. You write the code, and then you verify how it behaves on a staging environment, and then, finally, you deploy the new...

With many kinds of data stored in the database, sometimes we may be dealing with confidential data, which might include credit card data, financial record, personal information. Those PII (Personal Identifiable Information) data is subject...

If you’ve ever used MySQL, chances are you probably took backups of your database. If you took backups of your database, chances are you have at least once thought of how you could secure them....

Establishing trusted communications between systems is essential in enhancing system’s security. The use of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is one of the common ways to achieve trusted communication in distributed systems. In particular, Mutual SSL...

If you’ve been working with MySQL for some time, you have probably heard the terms “table-level locking” and “row-level locking”. These terms refer to the lock granularity in MySQL - in this blog we will...

We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.8.2 of Severalnines ClusterControl  - the only management system you’ll ever need to deploy, monitor, and manage your open source databases.   ClusterControl version 1.8.2 features new...

Database automation helps make complex and time consuming tasks simple and fast. The tasks most commonly and easily identified for automation are those that are time-consuming yet repetitive. These often consume productivity, and can affect...