Whether migrating a database or project from MySQL to PostgreSQL, or choosing PostgreSQL for a new project with only MySQL knowledge, there are a few things to know about PostgreSQL and the differences between the...

Galera Cluster’s automatic node provisioning simplifies the complexity of scaling out a database cluster with guaranteed data consistency. SST and IST improve the usability of initial data synchronization without the need to manually backup the...

In previous blogs (part 1 and part 2), we discussed how to migrate your RDS data into an EC2 instance. In the process, we managed to move our data out of RDS, but we are...

As we saw earlier, it might be challenging for companies to move their data out of RDS for MySQL. In the first part of this blog, we showed you how to set up your target...

  In the previous blog post, we discussed how gh-ost works internally and how it compares to Percona’s pt-online-schema-change. Today we’d like to focus on operations - how can we test a schema change with...

Thanks to everyone who attended this week’s webinar; if you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available online. Special thanks to Seppo...

This is a guest post from Igor Shevtsov, a MySQL DBA based in Twickenham, UK. Igor has had the opportunity to deploy and manage different types of high availability MySQL solutions, and we invited him...

Are you tired and frustrated with your hosting or cloud provider? Have you seen a constant degradation in service levels and responsiveness? Or was the public cloud a bit too expensive after all, and you’re...