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 …

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 …

SQL Views Example | Views In SQL Tutorial is today’s topic. SQL views is a kind of virtual tables which have rows and columns as they are in a real database. A view can be accompanied with all the rows of a particular table or selected rows based on a certain condition. In Structured Query Language, a view is a virtual table based on the result-set of an SQL statement.

SQL VIEWS

SQL view contains rows and columns, just like the real table. The fields in the view are fields from one or more real tables in the database. You can add the SQL functions, WHERE, and JOIN statements …

Author: Robert Agar

An organization’s databases contain information that is essential for its survival. This may encompass sensitive customer data, employee records, online sales catalogs, and intellectual capital to name just a few uses of a database. The responsibility of keeping these vital resources available falls to the enterprise’s team of DBAs. Failure to properly maintain these systems can lead to serious negative consequences that can cripple a company’s ability to do business.

Almost every application of any real utility is backed by a database, which in turn is administered through a database management system (DBMS). MySQL is an extremely widely-used DBMS whose popularity is only exceeded by that of Oracle. Countless business-critical applications rely on the availability and performance of MySQL databases. A common …

SLEEP thread causing "Waiting for table metadata lock"
We might have faced some scenarios once our db connection threads are getting locked and we try to find the culprit thread id which is locking the thread, to kill and release the connections. 
Here I am going to focus on one of the scenarios when db connection threads are locked at state "waiting for table metadata lock" and when we see the processlist, we can't find any thread which is running and using the same table, i.e., all threads are in SLEEP state except the locked threads.

Such as : 
mysql [localhost:5726] {msandbox} (world) > show processlist\G *************************** 1. row ***************************            Id: …

During the last conferences, I had the chance to discuss a lot with many colleagues. Some of them, like me, feel we have lost ourselves, not totally but a bit. 

I had start to think why, and this is my reasoning, not saying is right, but I think is not far from the truth.

Let us start just mentioning few events in the 2019 schedule, February Fosdem, end of May Percona live US, mid-June DataOps Barcelona, September Oracle open World, end of September-October Percona Live Europe, plus an undefined number of secondary events or MariaDB roadshows.

Where is the MySQL (and related) conference?

Do not get me wrong, we talk about MySQL a lot during each one of the above (or MariaDB, tometo/tomato). But it seems to me, that in a subtle way, the community had lost his conference.

There is nothing wrong if each company is trying to get the most out of their investment, so implicitly driving the show to get …

During the last conferences, I had the chance to discuss a lot with many colleagues. Some of them, like me, feel we have lost ourselves, not totally but a bit. 

I had start to think why, and this is my reasoning, not saying is right, but I think is not far from the truth.

Let us start just mentioning few events in the 2019 schedule, February Fosdem, end of May Percona live US, mid-June DataOps Barcelona, September Oracle open World, end of September-October Percona Live Europe, plus an undefined number of secondary events or MariaDB roadshows.

Where is the MySQL (and related) conference?

Do not get me wrong, we talk about MySQL a lot during each one of the above (or MariaDB, tometo/tomato). But it seems to me, that in a subtle way, the community had lost his conference.

There is nothing wrong if each company is trying to get the most out of their investment, so implicitly driving the show to get …