On October 3rd ProxySQL will have it’s very first technology day. They have chosen the lovely city of Ghent, Belgium, my home town, as the place to be. For those attending Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam, this is a great opportunity to extend your stay for a bit and take a two-hour train ride from the Percona Live venue at Amsterdam airport to Ghent where you can get some additional ProxySQL-specific content.

The ProxySQL team has selected a few experienced speakers to come and talk about their product. Vlad Fedorkov from ProxySQL LLC will have two sessions. The first one will be about High Performance MySQL and the second one will be about traffic management and performance troubleshooting. Oracle’s MySQL Community Manager, Frederic Descamps, will talk about using ProxySQL with InnoDB Cluster (Group Replication) and Percona’s Marco Tusa …

One of the great things about working at Percona is the constant innovation that occurs as a result of a deep level of technical expertise. A more recent conversation about the Information Schema table: innodb_cached_indexes led to the desire to produce this information in an easy to digest and useful format. Enter PMM.

Our goal with creating this dashboard was to help bring further insight into how your MySQL database cache is being used. Why is this important? Data is accessed significantly faster when it is cached, so indexes that are cached will allow for an increase in query performance. Until now there has not been an easy way to see which indexes are cached and which are not. We want to take the …

The MySQL Router is evolving quickly, seemingly following fast in areas that matter for InnoDB Cluster. For instance, this blog post from Jan Kneschke in MySQL-Router 8.0.16 an http webserver was added to support monitoring and management of the router instance.  The webserver stages the way for those things at least, which is great next… Read More »

Author: Robert Agar

MySQL is one of the most popular relational database platforms in the world. As such, it is used as the backend of many mission-critical applications across all sectors of business and industry. If you are a DBA or database developer there is a high probability that you are working with MySQL now or will be in the near future.

One of the primary responsibilities of a DBA is to optimize the performance of their databases. There are many ways to accomplish this feat, and all of them have an important point in common. You need knowledge concerning the operation of your systems before you can expect to make intelligent modifications to them. All of the methods used to tune and optimize your databases are identified by studying metrics regarding their current performance and using this data to plan appropriate action.

The right tools are required to gather the information needed to …

Hope everyone aware about known about LVM(Logical Volume Manager) an extremely useful tool for handling the storage at various levels. LVM basically functions by layering abstractions on top of physical storage devices as mentioned below in the illustration.

Below is a simple diagrammatic expression of LVM

         sda1  sdb1   (PV:s on partitions or whole disks)
           \    /
            \  /
          Vgmysql      (VG)
           / | \
         /   |   \
      data  log  tmp  (LV:s)
       |     |    |
      xfs  ext4  xfs  (filesystems)

IOPS is an extremely important resource, when it comes to storage it defines the performance of disk. Let’s not forget PIOPS(Provisioned IOPS) one of the major selling points for AWS and other cloud vendors for production machines …

Somebody asked me how to expand a prior example with the static variables so that it took arguments at the command line for the variables. This example uses Python 3 new features in the datetime package.

There’s a small trick converting the string arguments to date data types. Here’s a quick example that shows you how to convert the argument list into individual date data type variables:

#!/usr/bin/python3

# include standard modules
import sys
from datetime import datetime

# Capture argument list.
fullCmdArguments = sys.argv

# Assignable variables.
beginDate = ""
endDate = ""

# Assign argument list to variable.
argumentList = fullCmdArguments[1:]

# Enumerate through the argument list where beginDate precedes endDate as strings.
try:
  for i, s in enumerate(argumentList):
    if (i == …

Please find below the shows & conferences where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL experts during the week of Sep 9, 2019: 

• SwanseaCon, Swansea, UK, September 9, 2019

  • Do not miss MySQL talk on "NoSQL + SQL =MySQL" give by Stuart Davey, the MySQL Principal Sales Consultant. The talk is scheduled for 11:15-12:00 on Sep 9.
  • ...and come to visit our MySQL booth at the expo area!
• FOSS4G Niigata, Japan, September 13-14, 2019
  • Do not miss the MySQL session during the Core Day on Sep 14 as follows:
    • "Introduction of GIS Functions and Use Cases Enhanced with MySQL 8.0" given by Yoshiaki Yamazaki, the MySQL Senior …

This is a review of Adapting TPC-C Benchmark to Measure Performance of Multi-Document Transactions in MongoDB which was published in VLDB 2019. I appreciate that MongoDB and Asya Kamsky took the time to get this published. That can be a weekend and nights project when in industry. I also appreciate that this not a benchmarketing effort. The purpose wasn't to overstate performance. The purpose was to show how to get good performance on a TPC-C like workload with MongoDB and realistic hardware and configurations. I hope for a similar effort on MongoDB with Linkbench.

My comments:

• Work was done to reduce write-write conflicts which will be more likely given the extra commit latency from using w:majority writeConcern on a 3-node cluster. That …

A commonly encountered scenario is when EBS volumes are not performing at the expected theoretical performance. Let’s look at some of the potential reasons for that and how we can “fix” it. (When I say EBS volume, I am talking about SSDs specifically. I rarely see HDDs in use anymore.)

Planning for success

First of all, keep in mind that theoretical IOPS are based on an IO size of 16KB. If you are doing 32KB operations and have a volume rated 1000 IOPS, it means you effectively have 500 IOPS available.

Instance type is closely related to IO performance. When working with databases, you want to use an EBS-optimized instance type. This ensures dedicated bandwidth is available to the IO layer. In addition to that, instance types have a cap on bandwidth and IOPS. So when picking your instance type, don’t base the …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.6.45-25.27 and 5.7.27-25.19 with a new Galera Replication library 3.28 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 25. This release incorporates all changes into MySQL 5.6.45 (release notes, download) and MySQL 5.7.27 (release notes, …