PMM and IAM Roles
I started to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) recently because it seems promising, and my friends from Percona always recommending it to try out, and frankly, at first sight, I like it....
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 Is Now Available
Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.20-29.24 (PXC) on January 26, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories. NOTE: Due to new package...
View ArticleNext week in Brussels: Parallel Replication at the MySQL Pre-FOSDEM Day
FOSDEM is next weekend and I am talking about Parallel Replication on Friday, February 2nd at the MySQL Pre-FOSDEM Day (there might be tickets left in case of cancellation, attendance is free of...
View ArticleSpotify Top 200 in mySQL
I do a lot of data analysis lately, and I try to find answers to questions through data for my companies pressing questions. Let's look at the past year of 2017 and answer questions for people who like...
View ArticleOn InnoDB's Persistent Optimizer Statistics
As I put it in recent Facebook post, one of MySQL features that I truly hate is InnoDB's persistent statistics. I think I should clarify this statement. It's great to have a way to save statistics in...
View ArticleReplicating into Elasticsearch Webinar Followup
We had a great webinar on Wednesday looking at how we can use Tungsten Replicator for moving data into Elasticsearch, whether that’s for analytics, searching, or reporting. You can ahead and watch the...
View ArticleOn InnoDB's Online DDL
I am completing my preparations for the upcoming FOSDEM talk, and one of last things I wanted to do in frames of them is a quick review of known bugs and problems in current (as in MySQL 5.7 GA)...
View ArticleMaxscale Data Archiving with filters ( Mq & Tee )
Introduction – Maxscale is an excellent Proxy from Mariadb Corporation, which providing the High Availability, Realtime RW split with replication Glaera cluster Amazon RDS Amazon Aurora,...
View Articleorchestrator 3.0.6: faster crash detection & recoveries, auto Pseudo-GTID,...
orchestrator 3.0.6 is released and includes some exciting improvements and features. It quickly follows up on 3.0.5 released recently, and this post gives a breakdown of some notable changes: Faster...
View ArticleEnterprises choose Galera Cluster. Read why.
“Our three megastores’ and webshop’s combined revenue was 432 million euros in the year 2017. Galera Cluster has been the cornerstone of the system, secured our sales and supported our growth.” “MySQL...
View ArticleHow is automation impacting the dba role?
via GIPHY I was at a dinner party recently, and talking with some colleagues. I had worked with them years back on Oracle systems. One colleague Maria said she really enjoyed my newsletter. Join 38,000...
View ArticleUsing MySQL 5.7 Generated Columns to Increase Query Performance
In this blog post, we’ll look at ways you can use MySQL 5.7 generated columns (or virtual columns) to improve query performance. Introduction About two years ago I published a blog post about...
View ArticleHostname support in Group Replication whitelist
Introduction Since the release of Group Replication, one of its main security features is IP Address Whitelisting. This allows us to control whoever can send requests to enter in a group. On MySQL...
View ArticleMySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.3.8 has been released
We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.3.8 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and...
View ArticleMySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.4.6 has been released
We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.4.6 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and...
View ArticleMySQL Enterprise Monitor 4.0.3 has been released
We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 4.0.3 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software...
View ArticleMySQL 8 Windowing Functions
Windowing functions are way to group rows of data for analysis. This provides a 'window' to look at only the relevant data only. Plus there are about a dozen supporting functions to take advantage of...
View ArticleHow to Reset WordPress Admin Password via MySQL Command Prompt
Have you ever forgotten your WordPress administrator password and did not have access to your e-mail account or haven’t configured your e-mail account properly in WordPress? Fear not, because in...
View ArticleExport MySQL database table to CSV (delimited / Excel) file
Today lets talk a little about converting a MySQL table to CSV (Excel). My friend was looking to export MySQL to Excel, I saw couple of questions for export MySQL tables to CSV on forums. Since I saw...
View ArticleMySQL vs MariaDB vs Percona Server: Security Features Comparison
Security of data is critical for any organisation. It’s an important aspect that can heavily influence the design of the database environment. When deciding upon which MySQL flavour to use, you need...
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