The first DMR of MySQL 8 was recently released. While a DMR (or Developer Milestone Release) is not yet a GA product, it does come with our commitment that each feature has been tested and qualified for inclusion.
In MySQL 8.0 we have made additional improvements to the MySQL test framework (MTR) and the test suite.…
We’ve just completed Part 2 of our webinar trilogy on MySQL Query Tuning this week and if you didn’t get the chance to join us for the live sessions (or would like to watch them again), the recording is now available to view online as a replay.
As announced in our communications, these webinars are almost 1.5hrs long, as the content is quite dense (and we got some great questions from participants as well), so be sure to make sufficient time available to watch the replay ;-)
About 40% of our audience indicated that they currently either use MySQL / Percona Server 5.5 (or earlier), MySQL / Percona Server 5.6 or MariaDB 10.1, so it was an interesting mix. We also found that the majority of participants don’t have a process to check for unused indexes, which was a good opportunity to …
[Read more]MySQL 8.0.0 introduces three new miscellaneous UUID functions of IS_UUID(), UUID_TO_BIN() and BIN_TO_UUID() joining the UUID() (in 5.0) and UUID_SHORT() (in 5.1) functions. See 8.0.0 Release Notes.
Thanks to the great work and hosting by Marcus Popp anybody can test out the SQL syntax of MySQL 8.0.0 using db4free without installing anything. If you want a minimal install Giuseppe Maxia provides docker minimal images of 5.0+ versions …
[Read more]A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post explaining how sketch sampling methods can be employed to achieve fast 30-day data visibility for monitoring users. The problem we faced was that with that standard of retention, we’ve frequently seen systems that involve nearly a million query samples in a 30-day window, meaning that special solutions are needed in order to avoid overloading users’ browsers.
The solution we’ve found lies in a hash ordering that's proven to be both surprisingly simple and efficient. In this Part 2 post, I’ll look at why it works so well.
Ordering with a Hash
VividCortex’s query samples are stored in MySQL tables. The simplified schema definition looks like this:
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This blog post will look at seven bugs in MySQL 8.0.
Friday afternoon is always ideal for a quick look at the early quality of MySQL 8.0! Last Friday, I did just that.
If you haven’t heard the news yet, MySQL 8.0 DMR is available for download on mysql.com!
Tools to the ready: pquery2, updated 8.0 compatible scripts in Percona-qa and some advanced regex to wade through the many cores generated by the test run. For those of you who know and use pquery-run.sh, this should mean a lot!
[09:41:50] [21492] ====== TRIAL …[Read more]
(Almost) another new year by Jewish calendar. What do I wish for the following year?
I'm still not using GTID, and still see operational issues with
working with GTID. As a latest example, our new schema migration
solution, gh-ost, allows us to test migrations in production, on
replicas. The GTID catch? gh-ost has to write
something to the binary log. Thus, it "corrupts" the replica with
a bogus GTID entry that will never be met in another server, thus
making said replica unsafe to promote. We can work around this,
but...
I understand the idea and need for the Executed GTID
Set. It will certainly come in handy with
multi-writer InnoDB Cluster. However for most use cases GTID
poses a burden. The reason is that our topologies are imperfect,
and we as humans are imperfect, and operations are …
Codership’s Galera Cluster Best Practices Webinar for MySQL DBAs and DevOps Part One is now available to watch here
db4free.net was born in 2005 (which makes it older than Twitter or Google Chrome) when MySQL 5.0 was in early development. 11 years went by but one thing always remained the same: the 5 in MySQL’s major version number. MySQL versions went from 5.0 to 5.1 to 5.5, 5.6 and recently to 5.7. There was always this 5.something.
While this 5 will stay around for a bit longer, it is not alone anymore.
Now there is a duplicate of the db4free.net website at
where you can create a database on a newly set up MySQL 8.0 server!
MySQL 8.0 is in very early development, the first Development Milestone Release (MySQL 8.0.0 DMR) has just been released on September, 12. It will take several months until there will be a final release.
db4free.net makes it easy to try new features early. The …
[Read more]In a previous blog post we discussed several approaches to sharding. The most flexible one, sharding using metadata, is also the most complex one to implement. You need to design the meta-database, and build high availability not only for your application data but also for the metadata. On top of that, you need to design your application so it will be aware of the complex database infrastructure beneath - it has to query metadata first and then it has to be directed to a correct shard to read or write data. You will also have to build tools to manage and maintain the metadata. Migrating data requires caution so it has to be done carefully. You also have to make sure that any operations on the production databases are mirrored in the metadata. For instance, have you taken a slave out of rotation? This should be reflected in the metadata. Have you added a new …
[Read more]This blog post will discuss how to use the MySQL super_read_only system variable.
It is well known that replica servers in a master/slave configuration, to avoid breaking replication due to duplicate keys, missing rows or other similar issues, should not receive write queries. It’s a good practice to set
read_only=1
on slave servers to prevent any (accidental) writes. Servers acting as replicas will NOT be in read-only mode automatically by default.
Sadly,
read_only
has an historical issue: users with the SUPER privilege can override the setting and could still run DML queries. Since Percona Server 5.6.21 and MySQL 5.7.8, however, you can use the
super_read_only
feature to extend the
read_only …[Read more]
