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Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Dave Avery  | April 24, 2018 |  Posted In: Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, AWS, Benchmarks, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL PREVIOUS POST Welcome to Percona Live 2018 keynotes, day one! Percona Live 2018 is up and running! We call this day one, but in reality, yesterday was filled with tutorials that provided excellent and practical information on how to get your MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB and PostgreSQL environments up, running and optimized. Today we started with keynote presentations from Percona, a technology panel, Oracle and Netflix. You can view the recording of today’s keynotes here. Percona Welcome Laurie ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Shree Nair; Query profiling is a useful technique for analyzing the overall performance of a database. Considering that a single mid-to-large sized application can execute numerous queries each and every second, query profiling is an important part of database tuning, both as a proactive measure and in diagnosing problems.  In fact, it can become difficult to determine the exact sources and causes of bottlenecks and sluggish performance without employing some sort of query profiling techniques. This blog will present a few useful query profiling techniques that exploit MariaDB server’s own built-in tools: the Slow Query Log ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced that it has been named a Leader in Gartner’s 2018 “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service” report¹ for the second consecutive year. Oracle believes that the recognition is testament to the continued momentum and growth of Oracle Cloud Platform in the past year. Oracle Cloud Platform, which includes Oracle’s iPaaS offerings, has rapidly expanded its installed base in the last year, reaching almost 3,000 customers—nearly triple its size from fiscal year 2017. “In our view, being recognized as a Leader for two years in a row further demonstrates the ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Allison Snow. Forrester’s What It Means PodcastConversations with thought leaders to define and demystify the changing market. Listen or subscribe now    In 2017, 92% of global B2B marketing decision makers said that improving the ROI of marketing or effectiveness of marketing would be among their top marketing initiatives over the 12 months that followed. Turns out this was a bit of a pickle, because 77% of the same group of respondents said that lacking the ability to measure results was one of their top marketing concerns. There are six categories of metrics that marketers can ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: João Gramacho; MySQL 8.0.2 introduced a small yet powerful per transaction metadata information containing the transaction length in binary logs. MySQL binary logs are being used for many other things than MySQL replication or backup/recovery: replicate to Hadoop; replicate to other databases, such as Oracle; capture data change (CDC) and extract-transform-load (ETL); record change notification for cache invalidation; change tracking for differential backups; etc. A quick search about “binlog” into Github listed entries about projects parsing MySQL binary log event streams in many programming languages: Ruby, PHP, Python, NodeJS, Java, Golang, etc. Identifying that the stream ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Release Services. Author: Pedro Lopes (PL). The SQL Server team is excited to bring you the second service pack release for SQL Server 2016! The SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains a rollup of released hotfixes as well as multiple improvements centered around performance, scalability, and supportability based on feedback from customers and the SQL community. These improvements enable SQL Server 2016 to perform faster and with expanded supportability and diagnostics. It also showcases the SQL Server product team’s commitment to provide continued value into in-market releases. SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 includes: Performance ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Laurie Coffin  | April 20, 2018 |  Posted In: AWS, Containers, Database Monitoring, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, MySQL 8.0, open source databases, Percona Live PREVIOUS POST It’s hard to believe Percona Live 2018 starts on Monday! We’re looking forward to seeing everyone in Santa Clara next week! Here are some quick highlights to remember: In addition to all the amazing sessions and keynotes we’ve announced, we’ll be hosting the MySQL Community Awards and the Lightning Talks on Monday during the Opening Reception. We’ve also got a great lineup of demos in the exhibit hall all day ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform. About the examThe security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection. It validates understanding of specialized data classifications, data encryption methods, and secure Internet protocol, and the AWS mechanisms to implement them. The exam is open to anyone who currently holds a Cloud Practitioner or Associate-level certification. We recommend candidates have five years of IT security experience designing ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Good news for cloud security experts: following our most popular beta exam ever, the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform.About the examThe security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection. The exam is open to anyone who currently holds a Cloud Practitioner or Associate-level certification. We recommend candidates have five years of IT security experience designing and implementing security solutions, and at least two ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. The new AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.The security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection. It is open to anyone who currently holds an Associate or Cloud Practitioner certification. We recommend candidates have five years of IT security experience designing and implementing security solutions, and at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads. Learn more and register for the ... Read More