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In many real production databases, we often see some tables receiving high-frequency updates (millions per day) and autovacuum running repeatedly (hundreds of times per day). Additionally, those table...

Explore Group Replication in Percona MySQL Operator and learn how to set up a seamless DC-DR Cluster environment.

This post collects the main things Marco Tusa covered in his keynote at Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam: where Percona stands on MySQL, which features landed in the server, and what holds the MySQL com...

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Percona gives us room to work on our own AI-assisted projects, and I used mine to fix a problem I kept running into. Every time I wanted to try a new database feature, debug something tricky, or repro...

Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear

TL;DR Percona Server for MySQL 9.7.2-2 now supports DISTANCE() for vector similarity scoring directly in SQL (COSINE, EUCLIDEAN, MANHATTAN, DOT metrics). This is the compute primitive you need to rank...

A database migration can be syntactically correct and still be a poor release candidate. A regular index build can block writes, an ALTER TABLE may wait behind a conflicting lock or hold a strong lock...

A backup is only useful if it can be restored. This lab seeds a source database, takes a logical archive, deliberately deletes the source database, restores into a clean target, and checks the recover...

Evaluating LLM Models for DBA Tasks Large language models are increasingly capable of performing practical systems-administration tasks. I wanted to understand how well they could handle something mor...