One of the widely discussed technologies at Percona Live Europe was the logistics of running MySQL in containers. Containers – particularly Docker – have become a hot topic, so there was a good-sized crowd on day one of the conference for Ashraf Sharif, Senior Support Engineer with Severalnines. He presented his talk “MySQL on Docker: Containerizing the Dolphin”. 

During his presentation, Ashraf shared some recommendations for best practices when setting out on containerizing MySQL. He sees the trend of moving to containers as a progression from the use of virtual hosts.

After his talk on day one of the Percona Live Europe conference, I caught up with Ashraf and asked about his presentation. I was interested in which concepts are most important for …

In this blog post, I will discuss the solutions for monitoring databases (which includes alerting) I have worked with and recommended in the past to my clients. This survey will mostly focus on MySQL solutions. 

One of the most common issues I come across when working with clients is monitoring and alerting. Many times, companies will fall into one of these categories:

• No monitoring or alerting. This means they have no idea what’s going on in their environment whatsoever.
• Inadequate monitoring. Maybe people in this camp are using a platform that just tells them the database is up or connections are happening, but there is no insight into what the database is doing.
• Too much monitoring and alerting. Companies in this camp have tons of dashboards filled with graphs, and their inbox is full of alerts that get promptly ignored. This type of monitoring is just as useful as the first option. Alert …

In this blog post I will show you how to setup a replication from MySQL Cluster  (ndbcluster) to a regular MySQL Server (InnoDB). If you want to understand the concepts, check out part 7 of our free MySQL Cluster training.

First of all we start with a MySQL Cluster looking like this, and what we want to do is to setup replication server to the Reporting Server (InnoDB slave).




MySQL Cluster is great at scaling large numbers of write transactions or shorter key-based read querise, but not so good at longer reporting or analytical queries. I generally recommend people to limit analytical/reporting queries on the MySQL Cluster, in order to avoid slowing down the …

Suddenly your application starts throwing "error 157" and performance degrades or is non-existing. It is easy to panic then and try all sorts of actions to get past the problem. We have seen several users doing:

• rolling restart
• stop cluster / start cluster

because they also see this in the error logs:

120828 13:15:11 [Warning] NDB: Could not acquire global schema lock (4009)Cluster Failure

That is not a really a nice error message. To begin with, it is a WARNING when something is obviously wrong. IMHO, it should be CRITICAL. Secondly, the message ‘Cluster Failure’ is misleading.  The cluster may not really have failed, so there is no point trying to restart it before we know more.

So what does error 157 mean and what can we do about it?

By using perror we can get a hint what it means:

$ …

Many people have asked me what do I think was the best thing about Percona Live UK. I always answered: that it happened in the first place! This was the first time we had such a large and high-quality MySQL conference in Europe, and many well known bloggers and speakers that can't always travel to Santa Clara were present.

More importantly, many MySQL users who don't travel to Santa Clara could now see them speak and meet with them. I met at least 4 hard core MySQL DBA's from Helsinki that I've never met before. We had to travel to London to meet each other! (But if you are in Helsinki, we have our first MySQL user group tomorrow, this should fix things!)

When I walked into the conference venue, I introduced myself to a person that stood there talking to Baron Schwartz. He introduced himself as Schlomi Noach. Then we …

There are moments in history that become like signpost that everyone remembers the rest of their lives. Like where were you when you heard the news that JFK had been shot, or those 9/11 planes hit the WTC twin towers. If you work with MySQL and high-availability, then this week will be remembered as such. And if you're a European MySQL geek, you will remember that we were at the Percona Live UK conference when Galera clustering 1.0 was announced. Btw, the conference itself was also historical, at least for European MySQL users. I will have to write a separate blog post about the conference, because it was a great one, and I have to post slides of my 2 talks too. But this blog post is dedicated to the stable release of Galera.

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This blog post shows how you can use the Severalnines Configurator for MySQL Replication to deploy a Multi-master replication setup, and install ClusterControl.
You can also watch videos showing what is described below or read an even more detailed tutorial.

When the deployment is finished you have a set of tools to manage and monitor replication, as well as to add new slaves, and to perform failover.
You can choose:

• The number of slaves you wish to connect to the …

Severalnines is proud to announce that it won the Best Startup prize at the EuroCloud Sweden Award in Stockholm this week. The company was chosen out of a number of promising startups targeting the emerging cloud computing market.

The jury noted that “Severalnines have a compelling idea to cloud-enable any customer-preferred database in mission-critical setups. Together with a simple-to-use configurator they put the user in control.”

We are quite honored and proud to receive the Best Startup award. Through our flagship product ClusterControl™, it is our objective to make complex database tasks easy and even enjoyable for our users, and above all, to make sure …

This post follows the previous post, so set up the environment as described there.
In this example we will perform a full table scan (select * from my_data2) and an index scan (select * from my_data2 where userid=1).

The complete code is here from Severalnines.

Performing a full table scan (no search criteria)
Make sure you have records in the table my_data2.
To perform reads by primary key, we can just use Session::find(..), but here we will do a full table scan.

QueryBuilder qb = s.getQueryBuilder();

/*
* Run the query:
*/
List resultList = query.getResultList();
int count=0;

/*
* …

This post follows the previous post, so set up the environment as described there.
In this example we will have a slightly different table with a combined PK.
The complete code is here.

Create the table

The first thing we should do is to create the table we need for this example:

CREATE TABLE `my_data2` (
`userid` bigint(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`friendid` bigint(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`data` varbinary(255) DEFAULT NULL,
`last_updated` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`userid`,`friendid`)
) ENGINE=ndbcluster DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
/*!50100 PARTITION BY KEY (userid) */

Mapping …