I'm experimenting with upgrading to MySQL 5.6 and am experiencing an unexplained increase in disk I/O utilization. After discussing this with several people I'm publishing in the hope that someone has an enlightenment on this.

We have a few dozens servers in a normal replication topology. On this particular replication topology we've already evaluated that STATEMENT based replication is faster than ROW based replication, and so we use SBR. We have two different workloads on our slaves, applied by two different HAProxy groups, on three different data centres. Hardware-wise, servers of two groups use either Virident SSD cards or normal SAS spindle disks.

Our servers are I/O bound. A common query used by both workloads looks up data that does not necessarily have a hotspot, and is

pt-query-digest, Anemometer or "Anemomaster" do a great job of analysing your queries and giving you visibility into what's going on with your MySQL servers. However, the place where the query digests are written is just some MySQL tables on some server. Do you have monitoring/alerts on that table? How will you verify a specific query does not exceed some runtime/execution count threshold, and get notified when it does?

At Outbrain we use Graphite to collect almost all of our data. We like it for its simplicity and for the fact it has a "push" strategy as opposed to "pull" strategy: every

One thing that gets tedious in the IT community and Oracle community is the penchant for Windows only solutions. While Microsoft does an excellent job in certain domains, I remain a loyal Apple customer. By the way, you can install Oracle Client software on Mac OS X and run SQL Developer against any Oracle Database server. You can even run MySQL Workbench and MySQL server natively on the Mac OS X platform, which creates a robust development platform and gives you more testing options with the MySQL monitor (the client software).

Notwithstanding, some Windows users appear to malign Apple and the Mac OS X on compatibility, but they don’t understand that it’s a derivative of the

In MySQL (http://mysql.com), partitioning is a way to separate the data in one table into smaller “sub-tables” for better query performance and data management.

For example, let’s say that you have a database containing numerous accounting transactions. You could just store all of these transactions in one table, but you only need to keep seven year’s worth of data for tax purposes. Instead of placing all of the data in one table, and then deleting the old data from that table, you could split the table into partitions with each partition representing one year’s worth of data.

Then, after seven years, you could delete/drop the old partition. Partitions are flexible, as you can add, drop, redefine, merge, or split existing partitions (there are other options on what

Inspired by Yngve Svendsen’s post, I too think it makes absolute sense to congratulate Ubuntu on the 14.04 LTS release (some server notes - MySQL has a section dedicated to it). Ubuntu users have a lot of server choice today (that’s from all major MySQL ecosystem vendors):

• MySQL 5.5.35 ships in main. It is the default MySQL. Oracle has committed to providing updates to 5.5 throughout the LTS release cycle of Ubuntu (which is longer than the planned EOL for 5.5). This is why the grant of a

Here's our take of master DML query monitoring at Outbrain (presented April 2014). It took a half-day to code, implement, automate and deploy, and within the first hour of work we managed to catch multiple ill-doing services and scripts. You might want to try this out for yourself.

What's this about?

What queries do you monitor on your MySQL servers? Many don't monitor queries at all, and only look up slow queries on occasion, using pt-query-digest. Some monitor slow queries, where Anemometer (relying on pt-query-digest) is a very good tool. To the extreme, some monitor TCP traffic

The Trusty Tahr is out with support for 5 years. Here are the first thoughts about it…

Stupid Browser comes up when searching “Appearance”

• Unity feels more responsive than ever, especially the Alt+Tab.
• New Desktop environments these days (also read as Cinnamon, GNOME Shell) take up a lot of RAM, I wanted to test 14.04′s unity, after few hours usage it too scooped up 320 MB worth of RAM… I expected better
• One thing that definitely annoyed me

For fun, I tried building WebScaleSQL on Windows, even though it’s not [yet?] a support platform.

Using the following (as I would to build MySQL/MariaDB):

cd c:\mysql\webscalesql-5.6.16
mkdir bld
cd bld
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config relwithdebinfo --target package

I end up with:

...
    238 Warning(s)
    110 Error(s)
Time Elapsed 00:05:08.53

Looking through the output, the main error is this:

C:\mysql\webscalesql-5.6.16\include\atomic_stat.h(33):
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'atomic':
No such file or directory
[C:\mysql\webscalesql-5.6.16\bld\storage\innobase\innobase.vcxproj]

Of course the directory does exist, and permissions are correct.

C:\mysql\webscalesql-5.6.16\include\atomic_stat.h contains the following line:

#include <atomic>

And this exists:

If you are installing MySQL ODBC Driver and encounter the following error:

Error 1918. Error installing ODBC driver MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver,
ODBC error 13: The setup routines for the MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver
could not be loaded due to system error code 126:
The specified module could not be found.
...\myodbc5S.dll).. Verify...

Then you will need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (select the appropriate one for your OS architecture below):

64-bit version:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=14632

32-bit version:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=5555

After installing that, then re-attempt

If you attempt to use ODBC to run a MySQL application and run into the following error:

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] The specified DSN contains an
architecture mismatch between the Driver and Application

This means there is a 64-bit versus 32-bit mismatch.

Most likely, you’re running 64-bit Windows, as well as 64-bit MySQL ODBC connector, but the application is 32-bit.

If this is the case, you will also need to install the 32-bit MySQL ODBC connector, and then create the connection from the 32-bit ODBC.

odbcad32.exe is the file to create the connections. Both 64-bit and 32-bit files have the same name, just differing locations.

This is the default location for the 64-bit ODBC:

C:\Windows\System32\odbcad32.exe

This is the default location for the 32-bit ODBC:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe

And should you need to

With the recent Heartbleed bug, people are clearly more interested in their MariaDB/MySQL running with SSL and if they have problems. First up, you should read the advisory notes: MariaDB, Percona Server (blog), and MySQL (blog).

Next, when you install MariaDB (or a variant) you are usually dynamically linked to the OpenSSL library that the system provides. Typically on startup

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.37. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the Release Notes and Changelog for detailed information on this release and the What is MariaDB 5.5? page in the MariaDB Knowledge Base for general information about the MariaDB 5.5 series.

Download MariaDB 5.5.37

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB

Consider the following commands, executed in the MySQL CLI on a new connection with no special preparation (and pay special attention to the execution time):

mysql> show create table t \G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
       Table: t
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `t` (
  `a` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `b` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`a`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from t;
Empty set (5.20 sec)

mysql> select count(*) from t;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|        0 |
+----------+
1 row in set (5.22 sec)

mysql> select * from t where a = 10;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from t where a < 10;
Empty set (5.35 sec)

mysql> select * from t where a > 10;
Empty set (5.41 sec)

mysql> select

Most of the world, including developers and managers, don't understand what it's like to be a database administrator or responsible for servers in an organization.

Like a doctor, you are on call pretty much 24/7. The unfortunate difference, is you are responsible for the problem that others created. You need to solve problems that were created by a bad code push, poorly written queries, a configuration change and the like.

On top of that, a DBA or server administrator has constant requests from developers and other people in an organization to fix things, optimize queries, and the like.

It's hard to communicate how all these distraction add up to a really unproductive working environment.

Several

• InnoDB is much faster than MongoDB and TokuMX. This test requires a high rate of dirty page writeback and thanks to a lot of work from the InnoDB team at MySQL with help from Percona and

What does it mean to make writes fast? It helps to distinguish between the different types of writes. The slowest is a write that must be implemented as read-modify-write. This might require a disk read and can also create contention from preventing concurrent changes to the row for the duration of the read, modify and write. The row might not be unlocked until the change is made durable on storage (commit, fsync, etc) which lets you estimate the peak rate at which a single row can be changed on a traditional DBMS. And this latency between changes can get even worse when there is sync replication or multiple client-server round trips per transaction. The UPDATE statement in SQL is usually implemented as read-modify-write. Some DBMS engines require locking to be done above the DBMS because they don't support locking across operations where read and write are separate operations  [Read more...]

InnoDB implements multi-version concurrency control (MVCC), meaning that different users will see different versions of the data they are interacting with (sometimes called snapshots, which is a bit of a misleading term). This is done in order to allow users to see a consistent view of the system without expensive and performance-constraining locking which would limit concurrency. (This is where the “concurrency control” part of the term comes from; one alternative is locking everything the user may need.) Undo logging and InnoDB’s “history” system are the mechanisms that underly its implementation of MVCC, but the way this works is generally very poorly understood.