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MySQL 8.0 Clone Plugin and its internal process.

MySQL 8 has recently released clone plugin which makes DBA’s task of rebuilding the DB servers more easy.

  • Cloning is a process of creating an exact copy of the original. In technical terms cloning alias to (Backup + Recovery), MySQL database cloning requires a sequence of actions to be performed manually or in a scripted fashion with and without the tools involved.
  • Cloning is the first step when you want to configure the replication slave or Joining a new server to the InnoDB cluster. There was no native support for auto provisioning earlier. Percona XtraDB Cluster (MySQL + Galera Cluster) does cloning using xtrabackup tool by default when a new node joins the cluster.
  • Now MySQL simplified this task, In this post, We will see how to clone the database using clone plugin and its internals.
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Save Space on MySQL data with Column Compression

                                   Recently, One of our client reached our Remote DBA team with a requirement to reduce the size of the table as it is having many text columns with huge number of records. At preliminary check , I have validated the table size and its row format, as it was  in compressed  format already. 

Later I checked on other possibilities to compress the text columns further, At that time, then I came across per-column compression feature in Percona MySQL server (From 5.7.17-11) which features individual column compression and we were using …

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Reconsidering access paths for index ordering… a dangerous optimization… and a fix!

MySQL has had an interesting optimization for years now1, which has popped up from time to time: in certain circumstances, it may choose to use an index that is index-wise less efficient, but provides the resulting rows in order, to avoid a filesort of the result.

What does this typically look like in production? A query that seems simple and easy takes much longer than it should, sometimes. (Perhaps in production, the query gets killed by pt-kill or exceeds the max_execution_time provided.) The query could be very simple indeed:

SELECT ... WHERE `other_id` = 555 ORDER BY `id` ASC LIMIT 1

There’s an index on other_id, and running the query with an appropriate USE INDEX, the query is fast. Even weirder, changing the query to use LIMIT 10 causes it to …

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Are your Database Backups Good Enough?

In the last few years there have been several examples of major service problems affecting businesses data: outages causing data inconsistencies; unavailability or data loss, and worldwide cyberattacks encrypting your files and asking for a ransom.

Database-related incidents are a very common industry issue- even if the root cause is not the database system itself. No matter if your main relational system is MySQL, MariaDB, PostgresQL or AWS Aurora -there will be a time where you will need to make use of backups to recover to a previous state. And when that happens it will be the worst time to realize that your backup system hadn’t been working for months, or testing for the first time a cluster-wide recovery.

Forget about the backups, it is all about recovery!

Let me be 100% clear: the question is not IF data …

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Get the most IOPS out of your physical volumes using LVM.

Hope everyone aware about known about LVM(Logical Volume Manager) an extremely useful tool for handling the storage at various levels. LVM basically functions by layering abstractions on top of physical storage devices as mentioned below in the illustration.

Below is a simple diagrammatic expression of LVM

         sda1  sdb1   (PV:s on partitions or whole disks)
           \    /
            \  /
          Vgmysql      (VG)
           / | \
         /   |   \
      data  log  tmp  (LV:s)
       |     |    |
      xfs  ext4  xfs  (filesystems)

IOPS is an extremely important resource, when it comes to storage it defines the performance of disk. Let’s not forget PIOPS(Provisioned IOPS) one of the major selling points for AWS and other cloud vendors for production machines such …

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Simulating InnoDB Secondary Index Corruption

Working as a support engineer here at Percona is amazing, as you get a variety of requests, ranging from the most trivial questions to questions that require source code review and understanding of the internals of InnoDB, for example.

In our world where High Availability is a must, everything is about being pro-active, and when we need to be reactive we must act fast. To do so we need to ensure we have proper monitoring in place that covers all possible failure scenarios. Unfortunately, that is not always possible and we are always improving and learning as we face new types of issues.

A few days ago one of our customers faced an issue where MySQL identified an InnoDB secondary index corruption and marked that table as corrupted instead of crashing the server. Even though one would think that a single table marked as …

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MySQL 8.0 Flow Control in Group Replication

We are well aware that MySQL Group Replication is one of the faster evolving clustering Technology for MySQL. Flow Control plays a key factor in Group Replication performance and data integrity . In this blog I am going to explain about the Flow Control mechanism and How it has evolved in MySQL 8 ?

What is Flow Control ?

MySQL Group Replication / Native Async replication needs binary logs to get the data flow across the servers.

What makes the difference ?

In the MySQL Group Replication we are trying to achieve the Synchronous replication with the help of a Flow Control mechanism and transaction acknowledgments ( certification ).

Without Flow Control, the MySQL Group Replication is asynchronous replication ? Yes, consistency is lost.

Lets us consider

We have three nodes ( GR1, GR2, GR3 ) . Gr1 is the master and and other two servers ( GR2, GR3 ) are the …

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4th Mydbops Database Meetup

Partnering to participate knowledge sharing for the community of Database Administrators.

In continuation to the community contribution with knowledge gained out of experience and networking, Mydbops IT Solutions, conducted its 4th Database Meetup on Saturday, 3rd of August, 2019. Here was the first time, that we had changed our venue. With the like-minded sponsor in M/s.Zenefits Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. They played a role of a perfect host for all of us as attendees. Their venue was a perfectly equipped to suit the knowledge sharing exercise.

Key note by Mr.Ramesh Aithal, Head of Engineering at Zenefits was build on statistics, of how the Industry is taking shape and the galore of opportunities in the coming days. The attendees from multiple companies were a great …

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MySQL 8.0.17 Release and The Clone Plugin

MySQL 8.0.17 is officially released Yesterday. The most talked feature is the clone plugin, which enables the automatic node provisioning from an existing node (a Donor). This also closes the gap between MySQL Group Replication and Galera Cluster on usability.

Congrats to MySQL engineering team on the excellent work! Specially expose the visibility of the operations:

mysql> SELECT STATE FROM performance_schema.clone_status;
+-----------+
| STATE     |
+-----------+
| Completed |
+-----------+
1 row in set (0.02 sec)

mysql> SELECT STAGE, STATE, END_TIME FROM performance_schema.clone_progress;
+-----------+-------------+----------------------------+
| STAGE     | STATE       | END_TIME      …

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Clone: Create MySQL instance replica

Cloning MySQL instance data reliably and efficiently is required in many scenarios. This includes MySQL HA solutions where one needs to provision an instance before joining it to a Group Replication cluster or adding it as Slave in classic the replication model.…

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