We are glad to announce the 1.1.0 release of the  Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster.

The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster automates the lifecycle and provides a consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster instance. The Operator can be used to create a Percona XtraDB Cluster, or scale an existing Cluster, and contains the necessary Kubernetes settings.

The Operator simplifies the deployment and management of the Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes-based environments. It extends the Kubernetes API with a new custom resource for deploying, configuring and managing the application through the whole life cycle.

The Operator source code is available …

Overview The Skinny

Tungsten Clustering provides high availability, disaster recovery, and a host of other benefits for MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server databases. In this blog post we will explore some of the shell aliases I use every day to administer various Tungsten Clusters.

Shell Aliases: A Quick Review Quick and Easy

A shell alias is simply a way to create a shortcut for frequently-used command sequences.

For example, I like to shorten the command clear to cls, i.e.

shell> alias cls=clear
shell> cls

If you create an alias on the fly it will be lost when the shell exits.

To save aliases so they are available to all shell sessions, update your shell’s profile or rc script.

For example, add the below line to the bottom of …

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference, Europe 2019 will have a one week extension of the call for papers.  Our new close date will be Monday July 22, 2019.  Any and all topics related to open source database technologies are invited.

This year’s conference takes a new approach, organizing tracks along these key business themes:

• Performance & Scalability
• Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds & Everything In Between
• Building Large, Scalable, & Secure Database Deployments
• Hot Topics, New Features, & Trends You Should Know About
• Monitor, Manage, & Maintain Databases at Scale
• How to Reduce Costs & Complexity with Open Source Databases
• Fascinating or important talks that don’t 100% …

This is a follow-up post in the MySQL Master Replication Crash Safety series.  In the previous posts, we explored the consequences of reducing durability on masters (different data inconsistencies after an OS crash depending on replication type) and the performance boost associated with this configuration (benchmark results done on Google Cloud Platform / GCP).  The consequences are summarised in

This post is a sister post to MySQL Master Replication Crash Safety Part #5: making things faster without reducing durability.  There is no introduction or conclusion to this post, only landing sections: reading this post without its context is not not recommended. You should start with the main post and come back here for more details.

And this Part #5 of the series has many sub-parts.  So far,

In week 5 of our Benefits of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL (formerly Monyog) blog series, we detail MySQL and MariaDB monitoring features with SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL, including real-time monitoring and monitoring MySQL error logs. If you missed it, you can read our previous post on understanding database performance trends.

Fast Startup Time to Start Monitoring

Database administrators can start monitoring MySQL and MariaDB servers in less than a single minute. The unique architecture and low-footprint of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL enable database administrators to install and configure all of the components that are required for monitoring MySQL and MariaDB servers very quickly.

The fast startup time is in sharp contrast with other monitoring and advisory …

This tutorial explains the MySQL INSERT command to insert single and multiple rows in a table. Here, you’ll find some unique ways with different variations for adding records with fully working examples. 1. INSERT Statement Syntax 2. INSERT Single Row 3. INSERT Default Values 3. INSERT Date Columns 4. INSERT Multiple Rows Let’s now read and understand each of the section one by one. MySQL INSERT statement As stated initially, the INSERT command is a built-in MySQL statement which inserts the specified records into a given table. So, let’s first check the details and see how to use the INSERT

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Duration: 10 min

Level: Beginner

This tutorial will show you how to install Dynimize. We'll then use it to optimize a live MySQL process that's been running the Sysbench OLTP benchmark, obtaining a 46% increase in performance by applying Dynimize.

Part 1:  Quickstart

Here's a quick overview of how to use Dynimize.

To install Dynimize, run the following commands.

wget https://dynimize.com/install -O install
wget https://dynimizecloud.com/install.sha256 -O install.sha256
sha256sum -c install.sha256; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then sudo bash ./install -d; fi

Use your access token to start a subscription license for your host.

$ sudo dyni -license=start …

Recently I had a customer where every single query was running in a transaction, as well as even the simplest selects. Unfortunately, this is not unique and many connectors like Java love to do that.

In their case, the Java connector changed autocommit=off for the connection itself at the beginning, and as these were permanent connections they never or almost never reconnected.

In the slow query log we could see after every select there was a commit. So why is this a problem?

Test Case

Like always, the best way to deal with a problem to test it. I have created two EC2 instances t3.xlarge with Ubuntu, one for application and one for the databases.  I have used sysbench to run my tests.

I have created a table with 1 million records and was running simple primary key point selects against the database. I was using …

In one of my latest database restore jobs, I was helping a MySQL client with issues related to mysqlbinlog and I wanted to share it here. In case you didn’t know, MySQL is a simple SQL shell with input line editing capabilities, while mysqlbinlog is a utility for processing binary logs a MySQL server. In this case, the server was MariaDB, but the utilities are the same. The database version was 10.1.38-MariaDB.

So, why use mysqlbinlog?

There are many reasons for using mysqlbinlog to process binary log files, but in this case, it was used for point-in-time recovery.

Let’s say you have an erroneous transaction that you run at 3:05 p.m. and your last full backup was run at 12 p.m. To be able to restore your database up to 3:05 p.m., you will need to restore the full backup that you took at 12 p.m. and then apply the events from your binary logs up to the time before you ran the erroneous transaction. This procedure is …