Here in Percona’s Training department, we like to think that we instruct our learners on the best practices for all things MySQL-related. In addition to performance tuning, query optimization, and replication configurations, another important topic is backups. Let’s dive in and discuss some of the basics and best practices around backups for MySQL.

Logical MySQL Backups

In MySQL, it is possible to take backups in two different forms. The first form, logical, is the most universal. Essentially, you create all of the necessary INSERT statements to repopulate your table data. The two most popular tools in the area are mysqldump and mydumper.

mysqldump

This tool has been around since the beginning and supports a slew of different options, too numerous to discuss in this post.

Here is a simple example for taking a logical backup of the …

Managing global counters in a multi-threaded system has always been challenging. They pose serious scalability challenges. Introduction of NUMA just increased the complexity. Fortunately multiple options have been discovered with hardware lending support to help solve/ease some of these issues. In this blog we will go over how we can make Global Counter NUMA SMART and also see what performance impact each of this approach has.

Note: a lot of this work is inspired from MySQL codebase that is continuously trying to evolve to solve this issue.

Global Counters

Most of the software (for example: database, web-server, etc…) needs to maintain some global counters. Being global, there is one copy of these counters and multiple worker threads try to update it. Of-course this invites a need of coordination while updating these copies and in turn it becomes scalability hotspots.

Alternative is to loosely maintain these …

Join Alkin Tezusal, Percona Technical Expert, as he covers the past, present, and future of MySQL as an Open Source Database. During this webinar he will discuss: * Use cases of MySQL as well as edge cases of MySQL topologies using real-life examples and “war” stories * How scalability and proxy wars make MySQL topologies more robust to serve webscale shops * Open-source tools, utilities, and surrounding MySQL Ecosystem

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Presentation of some of the new features of MySQL 8.0.20 released on April 27th, 2020.

Day: Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm PST

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Learn about Waltz - a distributed write-ahead log, some great high availability architectures, Microservices and the power of using NoSQL and SQL with the same database.

Talk 1: Introduction to Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log

Talk 2: MySQL High Availability Architectures

Talk 3: MySQL Clusters for Microservices at Wepay

Talk 4: Discover the Power of NoSQL + SQL with MySQL

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Codership is proud to announce the first Generally Available (GA) release of Galera Cluster 4 for MySQL 8 and improve MySQL High Availability a great deal. The current release comes with MySQL 8.0.19 and includes the Galera Replication Library 4.5 with wsrep API version 26. You can download it now (and note that we have packages for various Linux distributions). 

Galera 4 and MySQL 8.0.19 have many new features, but here are some of the highlights:

• Streaming replication to support large transactions by splitting transaction replication then applying them in smaller fragments. You can use this feature to load data faster, as data is written to all nodes simultaneously (or not at all in case of a failure in any single node).
• Improved …

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Today 23 May 2020, it is 25 years since the first release of MySQL. So, I would like to take the opportunity to wish MySQL – and Sakila – a happy birthday.

My own MySQL journey started in 2006 when I at a job interview was told that if I got the job, I would need to learn MySQL before starting. Since the job involved PHP coding, I got the book Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL as well as Managing and Using MySQL. Around a week later, I started in my first job involving MySQL at Noggin Pty Ltd.

The two first MySQL books, I studied.

This was in the days of MySQL 5.0 when stored functions, procedures, and triggers were new, and statement based replication was the only binary log format around. The job evolved into including …

MySQL does not limit the number of slaves that you can connect to the master server in a replication topology. However, as the number of slaves increases, they will have a toll on the master resources because the binary logs will need to be served to different slaves working at different speeds. If the data churn on the master is high, the serving of binary logs alone could saturate the network interface of the master.

A classic solution for this problem is to deploy a binlog server – an intermediate proxy server that sits between the master and its slaves. The binlog server is set up as a slave to the master, and in turn, acts as a master to the original set of slaves. It receives binary log events from the master, does not apply these events, but serves them to all the other slaves. This way, the load on the master is tremendously reduced, and at the same time, the binlog server serves …

Database backups are a fundamental requirement in almost every implementation, no matter the size of the company or the nature of the application. Taking a backup should be a simple task that can be automated to ensure it’s done consistently and on schedule. Percona has an enterprise-grade backup tool, Percona XtraBackup, that can be used to accomplish these tasks. Percona also has a Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC Operator), which has Percona XtraBackup built into it. Percona XtraBackup has the ability for both automated and on-demand backups. Today we will explore taking backups and restoring these backups using the PXC Operator deployed …

MinervaDB Webinar – Building MySQL Database Infrastructure for Performance and Reliability

Recently I did a webinar on ” Building MySQL Database Infrastructure for Performance and Reliability ” , It was big success and thought will share the slides of webinar in this blog. I get lot of emails daily from Database Architects, DBAs, Database Engineers, Technical Managers and Developers worldwide on best practices and checklist to build MySQL for performance, scalability, high availability and database SRE, The objective of this webinar is to share with them a cockpit view of MySQL infrastructure operations from MinervaDB perspective. Database Systems are growing faster than ever, The modern datanomy businesses like Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, LinkedIn etc. are powered by Database Systems, This makes Database Infrastructure operationally complex and we can’t technically scale such systems with eyeballs. Building MySQL …