The freshly released MySQL 8.0 includes a data dictionary, which makes MySQL much more reliable. Thanks to this features, we don't have any '.frm' files, and querying the information_schema is 30x to 100x faster than previous versions.

One drawback of the implementation is that the data dictionary tables are hidden by design.

While the reason is fully understandable (they don't want to commit on an interface that may change in the future) many curious users are disappointed, because openness is the basis of good understanding and feedback.

The problem to access the dictionary tables can be split in three parts:

• Finding the list of tables; …

MySQL is a growing presence at Oracle Open World. While most of the headlines belong to the main products, where Oracle services are aiming at world domination, MySQL shared the spotlight, as it was announced to be part of Oracle database cloud. It seems a logical move for Oracle: after all the effort to make MySQL 5.7 the biggest release ever, it stands to reason that it is offered as a competitive feature in its own database as a service.

With this offer, Oracle is applying enterprise pricing and methodologies to a target of emerging companies. MySQL in the Oracle cloud differs from the competition by a few key points:

• It's only MySQL 5.7. While this is the most advanced MySQL server …

BakaSQL: a bit of historyWhen I joined this new company I was already aware there was a lot of work to do. There was no DBA Team to speak of; any MySQL related task was handled by the sysadmins, and the company was growing as fast as you can imagine, with 15-20 new employees arriving each month, most of them in the IT department. For sure, there was much fun ahead.

During my first week in the new job  I immediately felt that something was not right. I was receiving too much DMLs to execute each day, spanning a wide set of servers, schemas an tables. This is not something I had seen before, so I started asking around what the reason behind it was.  It turned out that there were multiple reasons behind it:

• there were known bugs in the applications that were never fixed
• application configuration items were stored in MySQL, but there was no admin panel to modify them
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In a recent labs release a new feature was introduced by Oracle, or actually two very related new features were introduced. The first new feature is Common Table Expressions (CTEs), which is also known as WITH. The second feature is recursive CTEs, also known as WITH RECURSIVE.

An example of WITH:

WITH non_root_users AS (SELECT User, Host FROM mysql.user WHERE User<>'root')
SELECT Host FROM non_root_users WHERE User = ?

The non-CTE equivalent is this:

SELECT Host FROM 
    (SELECT User, Host FROM mysql.user WHERE User<>'root') non_root_users
WHERE User = ?

This makes it easier to understand the query, especially if there are many subqueries.

Besides using regular subqueries or CTEs you could also put the subquery in a view, but this requires more …

One of the most interesting features  introduced in MariaDB 10 was without doubt multi source replication, or the ability for a slave to have multiple masters.

Tired of hearing complaints from developers who couldn't join tables because they were on different servers, I decided to give MariaDB a try to see if I could leverage this neat feature.
At the time, we had 5 main clusters, classic multi-master active/standby configuration, with some slaves under each of them. I wanted to create a "super slave" that would contain the dataset from all the five clusters, so that developers could connect to it and join at will.
The initial creation of the MariaDB superslave was easy. After installing the binaries, I just bootstrapped it with an xtrabackup copy of our main cluster and set up replication. All went just fine as expected.
Suddendly I realized that I couldn't use xtrabackup to bring the datasets from other …

Another day at the office...

"Whoa, the write workload on our statistical cluster has  suddendly increased by 20% and the filesystem that holds the binary logs is no longer large enough".

Of course, I had warned the boss about this possibility when I received those servers with that tiny 250G filesystem for binlogs, but my red flag was just ignored as usual.

So here we are, presto I get this new shiny 600G LUN, but we need to stop the damn MySQL server in order to repoint the log_bin variable to the new storage area.

Dunno about you, but the idea of waking up at 2am to just perform a variable change is not something that makes me particularly happy. Not to mention the maintenance period that is needed around it....

So, I decided to investigate a bit about the possibilities to do such change without stopping the service.

As we all know, the log_bin …

The MySQL keynote at Oracle Open World 2016 announced the immediate availability of the MySQL Cloud Service, part of the larger Oracle Cloud offering. You can evaluate this now with a trial copy at cloud.oracle.com/mysql. MySQL server product manager Morgan Tocker gave two presentations at the event including a deep dive session.

This is the first release of the MySQL cloud service. As with all first releases there are some highlights and some pipeline features. All major cloud providers have MySQL offerings. AWS RDS (traditional, MAZ and Aurora) GCP Cloud SQL and Azure …

So, about ten days ago the MySQL Server Team released MySQL 8.0.0 Milestone to the world. One of the most unfortunate things about MySQL development is that it’s done behind closed doors, with the only hints of what’s to come arriving in maybe a note on a bug or such milestone releases that contain a lot of code changes. How much code change? Well, according to the text up on github for the 8.0 branch “This branch is 5714 commits ahead, 4 commits behind 5.7. ”

Way back in 2013, I looked at MySQL Code Size over releases, which I can again revisit and include both MySQL 5.7 and 8.0.0.

Percona announces the new release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.41-25.11.1 (rev. 855) on September 22, 2016. Binaries are available from the downloads area or our software repositories.

Bugs Fixed:

• Due to security reasons ld_preload libraries can now only be loaded from the system directories (/usr/lib64, /usr/lib) and the MySQL installation base directory. This fix also addresses issue with where limiting didn’t work correctly for relative paths. Bug fixed #1624247.
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The original article presented two graphs: one of MariaDB searches (which are increasing) and the other showing MySQL searches (decreasing or leveling out). It turns out that the y axis REALLY matters.

I honestly expected better….

@mariadb that Trends graph is misleading. Steady over 12months, flattening from peak 12+y ago, well before MariaDB. pic.twitter.com/sP6H65FEvR

— Stewart Smith (@stewartsmith) September 22, 2016

Try “Will @mariadb ever replace @postgresql “. At current rate, equal on Google Trends in 12-20 years if no pg growth. …