Planets9s - Deploying HAProxy & MaxScale with ClusterControl, Percona...
Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures. ClusterControl Tips &...
View ArticleBSL BS: How do you backport fixes from MaxScale 2.0 to MaxScale 1.0?
I have created a GitHub fork of MaxScale which does not include the 2.0 branch. The repository is called GPLScale.There is a big potential problem with this. Take for example the file...
View ArticleSQLyog MySQL GUI 12.2.5 Released
With this new release, JSON comes to SQLyog with SQLyog MySQL GUI 12.2.5. This is a new and major thing. Also, Foreign Key management with NDB tables was added and the user- filter was improved in the...
View ArticleHow to Password-Protect Directories with mod_authn_dbd and MySQL on Apache...
This guide explains how to password-protect web directories (with users from a MySQL database) with mod_authn_dbd on Apache2 on a Debian 8 (Jessie) server. It is an alternative to the plain-text...
View ArticleInstalling MariaDB 10.1.16 on Mac OS X with Homebrew
Thu, 2016-08-18 15:27Ben StillmanDeveloping on your Mac? Get the latest stable MariaDB version set up on OS X easily with Homebrew. See this step by step guide on installing MariaDB 10.1.16. 1...
View ArticleProxySQL 1.2.1 GA Release
The GA release of ProxySQL 1.2.1 is available. You can get it from https://github.com/sysown/proxysql/releases. There are also Docker images for Release 1.2.1:...
View ArticleEmulating Sequences in MySQL and MariaDB
Sequences are objects defined by the SQL standard that are used to create monotonically increasing sequences of numeric values. Whenever nextval is called on a sequence object, it generates and returns...
View ArticleMeet MySQL Support at Oracle OpenWorld 2016
It is soon time for the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. This year it takes place from 18 to 22 September. There will be a wide range of talks about MySQL and other Oracle products...
View ArticleMy recent experiences using Azure ML
I never thought I’d write “Microsoft” and “exciting” in the same sentence. I started my data career using Excel, which is a great tool for prototyping and sharing data quickly, and has been used by...
View ArticleFooling around with MySQL JSON full-text indexing
MySQL 5.7/8.0 does not allow creating a full-text index on a JSON column. Although a full-text index would be useful – unstructured data deserves unstructured search. I am unaware o any workaround of...
View ArticleMySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) – provides at-rest...
With MySQL version 5.7.11 and up, Oracle continues to improve MySQL’s security features by adding MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for InnoDB tables stored in innodb_file_per_table...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.5.51-38.1 is now available
Percona announces the release of Percona Server 5.5.51-38.1 on August 19, 2016. Based on MySQL 5.5.51, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.51-38.1 is now the current stable release in...
View ArticleSpeaking in August 2016
I know this is a tad late, but there have been some changes, etc. recently, so apologies for the delay of this post. I still hope to meet many of you to chat about MySQL/Percona Server/MariaDB Server,...
View ArticleMySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) – provides at-rest...
With MySQL version 5.7.11 and up, Oracle continues to improve MySQL’s security features by adding MySQL Enterprise Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for InnoDB tables stored in innodb_file_per_table...
View ArticleConfiguring LDAP Authentication and Group Mapping With MariaDB
Fri, 2016-08-19 19:51Geoff MonteeEnterprise users who have a large number of MariaDB servers often want to centralize their MariaDB user account administration -- especially for the user accounts of...
View ArticleTop Most Overlooked MySQL Performance Optimizations: Q & A
Thank you for attending my 22nd July 2016 webinar titled “Top Most Overlooked MySQL Performance Optimizations“. In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for that webinar. For hardware,...
View ArticleNetwork Traffic Analyzer with RaspberryPI
Motivation Melbourne just won the “most liveable city 2016”, the 5th time in a row. That’s awesome, but it comes with a price, and the one you’d think of: internet here sucks! Sounds weird, isn’t it?...
View ArticleA discussion about sync-master-info and other replication parameters
Some time ago, feedback was requested on new replication default after MySQL 5.7. Some of the suggested default are: relay-log-info-repository = TABLE (previous default FILE) relay-log-recovery = ON...
View ArticleSharding with ProxySQL
Recently a colleague of mine ask me to provide a simple example on how ProxySQL can perform sharding.ProxySQL is a very powerful platform that allow us to manipulate and manage our connections and...
View ArticleHow to stop an offending query with ProxySQL
All of us are very good in writing good queries, we know that ;) but sometimes a bad query may escape our control and hit (badly) our database. There is also that probie, who just join the company and...
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