The amount of transactions committed is an important information, but how could you return an accurate value?

This is a question I got from my colleague Ivan, he was challenging with global status values like COM_COMMIT or HANDLER_COMMIT, then checking in innodb_metrics… but this was not accurate.

In fact depending which storage engine you are using, if binary logs are enabled, if you rollback transactions, if you are using auto_commit, etc… all those parameters influence those values.

So the first question was “What metrics or else should we use ?”. In my opinion, the most accurate “counter” for transactions are the GTIDs.

And this is why I created yet another MySQL Shell plugin that does that calculation:

This plugin is available on my GitHub repository …

 Data Con LA starts October 23rd and I will be speaking on Sunday and I will be speaking on Sunday the 25th on MySQL's NoSQL JSON Store in a talk titled MySQL Without the SQL -- Oh My!

The talk is pre-recorded but I will be live for the question and answer segment. So this is your chance to ask me your question.

Dave's MySQL Basics is a new video based series I am starting to teach the basics of MySQL.  I have been talking with book publishers, hiring managers, DBAs of all levels, and many others.  They have all said they would like to see a simple, modular way to learn MySQL.  So rather than take a few years to produce a book, I am creating a series of videos that will be short (the goal is five minutes or less), not too pedantic (still have to teach the very low level basics), and that can be updated quickly when/if the material changes.  …

Find out why and how we replaced an AWS RDS/MySQL solution with a Tungsten Cluster composite active/active MySQL solution to offer a geo-distributed MySQL back-end for IoT services at Samsung.

Tags:  Webinar MySQL use case tungsten clustering AWS Aurora aws rds mysql cluster Geo-Distributed

Earlier this week, Oracle released their Q4 releases series. As on the previous releases, backward compatibility has been broken with previous versions of the server. This time on both MySQL 5.7 and 8.0:

MySQL 5.7.32

While our QA team was performing an extensive test on it,  we found out this version introduced a new compression format version. This change breaks backward compatibility with older versions of MySQL, which is expected on the 8.0 series but is not on 5.7. As Percona XtraBackup (PXB) is based on MySQL code, it makes MySQL 5.7.32 incompatible with current versions of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.20 and prior.

The issue does not affect only Percona XtraBackup but also prevents users from downgrading the server from 5.7.32 to any lower version on the 5.7 series – More details at …

We have video recording available for you to learn how you can benefit the New Galera Manager. It includes live demo how to install Galera Manager and deploy easily Galera Cluster on Amazon Web Service for Geo-distributed Multi-master MySQL, Disaster Recovery and fast local reads and writes. Now you can monitor and manage your Galera Cluster with Graphical Interface.

“The presentation was great with lots of valuable information. We will definitely try to implement Galera Manager in our environment very soon” stated attendee of the webinar.

Watch Galera Manager webinar recording

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One of the most exciting storage-related features in Kubernetes is Volume snapshot and clone. It allows you to take a snapshot of data volume and later to clone into a new volume, which opens a variety of possibilities like instant backups or testing upgrades. This feature also brings Kubernetes deployments close to cloud providers, which allow you to get volume snapshots with one click.

Word of caution: for the database, it still might be required to apply fsfreeze and FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK or

LOCK BINLOG FOR BACKUP

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It is much easier in MySQL 8 now, because as with atomic DDL, MySQL 8 should provide crash-safe consistent snapshots without additional locking.

Let’s review how we can use this feature with Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine and …

Want to horizontally scale your database without all the effort? Check out our latest resharding workflow that allows you to scale from 1 shard to 128 with a few clicks of a button.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with its CloudSQL offering, has become a leading platform for database-as-a-service workload deployments for many organizations. Scale and High Availability have surfaced as primary goals for many of these deployments. Unfortunately, the attainment of these objectives has been challenging.

Often, the answer has been to simply add more CloudSQL databases. Many, however, have found a better solution in Percona’s fully managed MySQL environment based in Google’s GCE. Percona’s fully managed MySQL offering provides benefits similar to CloudSQL, plus the ability to run MySQL with an unlimited number of tables and much more reliable database availability. This has empowered these organizations to reclaim control over their architecture decisions. With Percona’s fully managed MySQL, your database architecture choices are once again based on your needs and the needs of your workload, rather than the capabilities …

Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how the MySQL JSON_TABLE function works, and how you can use it to transform a JSON object into a relational database table. When using a relational database system, it’s best to design the database schema according to the relational model. However, there are certain use cases when the relational model is too strict, and we are better off storing data in a JSON column type. For instance, as I explained in this article, when designing an audit log table, it’s much more convenient to... Read More

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Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.6, 5.7 and 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.6.49 (release notes, download), 5.7.31 (release notes, download), and 8.0.21 (release notes, download) with Galera Replication library …