Setting up an NDB Cluster in the Oracle Cloud using Auto Installer
In MySQL Cluster 8.0.18 we have developed MySQL Cluster Auto Installer toalso support installing NDB :)We have made it very easy to setup an NDB Cluster in the Oracle Cloud.The Auto Installer will take...
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MySQL Workbench Review
MySQL Workbench is a great multi-purpose GUI tool for MySQL, which I think is not marketed enough by the MySQL team and is not appreciated enough by the community for what it can do. MySQL Workbench...
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ProxySQL 2.0.7 and proxysql-admin Tool Now Available
ProxySQL 2.0.7, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with Percona’s proxysql-admin tool. ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL and...
View ArticleManaging Big Data with MySQL Can be Challenging
Author: Robert Agar MySQL is an extremely popular open-source database platform originally developed by Oracle. It currently is the second most popular database management system in the world, only...
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MySQL Document Store – a quick-guide to storing JSON documents in MySQL using...
MySQL introduced a JSON data type in version 5.7, and expanded the functionality in version 8.0. Besides being able to store native JSON in MySQL, you can also use MySQL as a document store (doc...
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How to Improve MySQL AWS Performance 2X Over Amazon RDS at The Same Cost
AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of...
View ArticleA Guide to MySQL Galera Cluster Streaming Replication: Part One
Streaming Replication is a new feature which was introduced with the 4.0 release of Galera Cluster. Galera uses replication synchronously across the entire cluster, but before this release write-sets...
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The Slow Software Movement
Those who build SaaS know that you’re actually providing an experience. You’re building long-term relationships and aiming for recurring revenue. Therefore, your product must be flexible, resilient,...
View ArticleMySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.13 has been released
Dear MySQL Users, MySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.13 is a new release version of the MySQLConnector/C++ 1.1 series. Connector/C++ 1.1 can be used to access MySQL using an APIbased on JDBC4. For information on...
View ArticleBest Practices to Secure Your MySQL Databases
Author: Robert Agar MySQL is one of the most popular database platforms in the world. It is widely used to power eCommerce sites and web applications that are essential components of many companies’...
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A Guide to MySQL Galera Cluster Streaming Replication: Part Two
In the first part of this blog we provided an overview of the new Streaming Replication feature in MySQL Galera Cluster. In this blog we will show you how to enable it and take a look at the results....
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Using Explain Analyze in MySQL 8
In MySQL 8.0.18 there is a new feature called Explain Analyze when for many years we mostly had only the traditional Explain. I know there are different formats, but those based on the same...
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Setup 2 MySQL InnoDB Clusters on 2 DCs and link them for DR
This article is an update of a previous post explaining how to setup a second cluster on a second data center to be used as disaster recovery (or to run some off site queries, like long reports,...
View ArticleGalera Cluster for MySQL 5.6.46 and MySQL 5.7.28 is GA
Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.6.46 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 5.7.28...
View ArticleA beginner’s guide to database deadlock
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how a deadlock can occur in a relational database system, and how Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL recover from a deadlock situation. Database...
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Column Histograms on Percona Server and MySQL 8.0
From time to time you may have experienced that MySQL was not able to find the best execution plan for a query. You felt the query should have been faster. You felt that something didn’t work, but you...
View ArticleMySQL is Ready for Fedora 31
Fedora 31 is out today; another rev on one of the most popular community Linux distros out there. As usual, we support the latest Fedora from day one, and we have added the following MySQL products to...
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5th Mydbops Database Meetup (Saturday, 2nd of Nov. 2019)
We are fueled and energized by the inquisitiveness and eagerness of Database Administrators as a community, reminding us of conducting the next edition of Mydbops Database Meetup. The regular...
View ArticleKilling certain connections to a MySQL database
Maintenance of databases or servers is quite often performed by database administrators at night. But these routines sometimes get blocked by long-running queries or applications that hang onto locks...
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Understanding Hash Joins in MySQL 8
In MySQL 8.0.18 there is a new feature called Hash Joins, and I wanted to see how it works and in which situations it can help us. Here you can find a nice detailed explanation about how it works...
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