S3 is not just for backups
For a long time, I treated S3 as a backup location for databases. After spending the last few months thinking about cloud architecture and designing Epsilon, I slowly learned that services like S3 can...
View ArticleFromDual.en: FromDual Performance Monitor for MySQL and MariaDB 1.0.1 has...
FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.0.1 of its popular Database Performance Monitor for MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster and Percona Server fpmmm. You can download...
View ArticleTreating NULLs as not less than zero in ORDER BY Revisited
In my post yesterday, I shared a little known trick for sorting NULLs last when using ORDER BY ASC. To summarize briefly, NULLs are treated as less than 0 when used in ORDER BY, However, sometimes you...
View ArticleAn Introduction to MariaDB’s Data at Rest Encryption (DARE) – Part 1
Encryption is becoming more and more prevalent and increasingly necessary in today’s world, so I wanted to provide a good overall “getting started” article on using MariaDB’s data at rest encryption...
View ArticleAn Introduction to MariaDB’s Data at Rest Encryption (DARE) – Part 2
Okay, so you’ve read the first post on enabling MariaDB’s data at rest encryption, and now you are ready to create an encrypted table. And just to get it out of the way for those interested, you can...
View ArticleWith 500+ VividCortex Users, Shopify Eliminates High Latency Queries From...
As intuitive and streamlined as ecommerce technology might seem from the user's perspective, it involves so much data that engineering ingenuity and smart database management must constantly deliver in...
View ArticleRoland Bouman's blog: Need a Mondrian .WAR? Check out XMondrian.
Roland Bouman's blog: Need a Mondrian .WAR? Check out XMondrian.: Error: The Mondrian XML: Mondrian Error:Internal error: No suitable connection found (00HSBE02)Hi Prabu,this: Error: The Mondrian XML:...
View ArticleMySQL in the Cloud - Pros and Cons of Amazon RDS
Related resources Infrastructure Automation - Deploying ClusterControl and MySQL-based systems on AWS using Ansible Press Release: Severalnines and WooServers bring ClusterControl to web hosting...
View ArticleJSON Support in PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and SQL Server
Updated 2/10/2017 If you've been watching the evolution of database technologies over the past few years, you've seen how quickly JSON has quickly cemented its position in major database servers. Due...
View ArticlePercona Blog Poll: What Database Engine Are You Using to Store Time Series Data?
Take Percona’s blog poll on what database engine you are using to store time series data. Time series data is some of the most actionable data available when it comes to analyzing trends and making...
View ArticleShinguz: MySQL and MariaDB authentication against pam_unix
The PAM authentication plug-in is an extension included in MySQL Enterprise Edition (since 5.5) and in MariaDB (since 5.2). Pluggable authentication module Understanding PAM MySQL authentication...
View ArticleMySQL may return results in non-deterministic order with ‘order by’
Whenever we want a query’s results sorted, you may think of using the clause “order by.” You are correct: most of the time, MySQL will return the results in expected order with “order by.” Be careful,...
View ArticleMySQL & MariaDB load balancing with ProxySQL & ClusterControl: introduction...
Proxies are building blocks of high availability setups for MySQL and MariaDB. They can detect failed nodes and route queries to hosts which are still available. If your master failed and you had to...
View ArticleHow does a relational database work
Introduction While doing my High-Performance Java Persistence training, I came to realize that it’s worth explaining how a relational database works, as otherwise, it is very difficult to grasp many...
View ArticlePHP-SQL-Parser updated with pull requests
I took some time this morning to check out and merge some existing pull requests for PHP-SQL-Parser, the most popular SQL parser for MySQL and PHP.I'm thinking about adding a Validate($conn,$sql)...
View ArticleReleasing BSL 1.1
Releasing BSL 1.1 kajarno Tue, 02/14/2017 - 17:29 When we originally released BSL 1.0 together with MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 in August 2016, we were acutely aware that using a license not approved by the...
View ArticleLog Buffer #504: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This edition of Log Buffer covers Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL. Oracle: Data Pump or Data Pain Part02 – tablespace/user Monday Spotlight: It’s About Security – Oracle Exadata SL6...
View ArticleMySQL on Docker: Composing the Stack
Docker 1.13 introduces a long-awaited feature called compose-file support, which allow us to define our containers with a nice simple config file instead of a single long command. If you have a look...
View ArticleDocker Images for Percona Server for MySQL Group Replication
In this blog post, we’ll point to a new Docker image for Percona Server for MySQL Group Replication. Our most recent release of Percona Server for MySQ (Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.17) comes with...
View ArticleKerberos for SQLyog by MariaDB Connector/C
Kerberos for SQLyog by MariaDB Connector/C julienfritsch Wed, 02/15/2017 - 15:06 MariaDB is an open source enterprise database with one of the most active and fastest-growing communities in the world....
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