As the need for information grows so does the size of data we need to keep in our databases. SST is unavoidable for spinning up new nodes in a PXC cluster and when datasets reach the “terra-byte” range this becomes ever more cumbersome requiring many hours for a new node to synchronize.

More often that not, it is necessary to implement custom “wsrep_sst” scripts or resort to manual synchronization processes. Luckily cloud providers provide convenient methods to leverage disk snapshots that can be used to quickly transfer data between nodes.

This article deals with the actions needed to perform a snapshot on Google’s Compute Engine (GCE) infrastructure. A similar method can be used on AWS EC2 instances using EBS snapshots or any other form of snapshots such as LVM, ZFS or SAN. The steps described can be …

In MySQL Character encoding – part 1 we stated that the myriad of ways in which character encoding can be controlled can lead to many situations where your data may not be available as expected.

UTF8 was designed on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992.

Setting MySQL Client and Server Character encoding.

Lets restart MySQL with the correct setting for our purpose, UTF8. Here we can see the setting in the MySQL configuration file, in this case /etc/mysql/my.cnf.

character-set-server = utf8

This change is then reflected in the session and global variables once the instance is restarted with the new configuration parameter.

mysql> SELECT …

It's been some time since I wrote my last blog. As usual this means that I have
been busy developing new things. Most of my blogs are about describing new
developments that happened in the MySQL Server, MySQL Cluster, MySQL
partitioning and other areas I have been busy developing in. For the last year I have
been quite busy in working with MySQL Cluster 7.4, the newest cluster release. As
usual we have been able to add some performance improvements. But for
MySQL Cluster 7.4 the goal has also been to improve quality. There are a number
of ways that one can improve quality. One can improve quality of a cluster by making
it faster to restart as problems appear. One can also improve it by improving code
quality. We have done both of those things.

In order to improve my own possibilities to test my new developments I decided to
invest in a "Windows computer". This …

MySQL Tech Tour: Out of the Box MySQL High Availability - Performance - Scalability
March 17, 2015, Oslo, Norway

Did you know that the new MySQL Fabric delivers High Availability with automatic failure detection and failover? And that MySQL Fabric also enables scale-out with automated data sharding? Do you know how to take advantage of the MySQL SYS Schema?

Join us for this free MySQL Tech Tour to learn straight from the source how you can benefit from Oracle’s latest MySQL innovations. Our technical experts will help you understand how to take advantage of the wide range of new features and enhancements available in MySQL Fabric, MySQL 5.6, MySQL Cluster and other MySQL solutions. They will share tips & tricks to help you get the most of your database. You will also discover what’s coming next in MySQL MySQL 5.7.

Agenda:
08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Welcome
09:00 – 09:30 …

Introduction

For the moment, the only engines that fully support encryption are XtraDB and InnoDB. The Aria storage engine also supports encryption, but only for temporary tables.

MariaDB supports 2 different way to encrypt data in InnoDB/XtraDB:

1. Specified table encryption: Only tables which you create with PAGE_ENCRYPTION=1 are encrypted. This feature was created by eperi.
2. Tablespace encryption: Everything is encrypted (including log files). This feature was created by Google and is based on their MySQL branch.

InnoDB Specified Table Encryption

Specified Table encryption means that you choose which tables to encrypt. This allows you to balance security with speed. To use table encryption, you have …

MySQL offers a few different types of indexes and uses them in a variety of ways. There’s a lot to know about the various kinds of indexes and how they interact with the storage engines, and it’s all very important for query optimization. A few examples are listed below:

• The “leftmost prefix rule”

• Clustered primary indexes versus secondary indexes

• B-Tree and hash

• New types of indexes such as LSM and Fractal Trees

• Newer features in the query optimizer and executor in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7

You will leave this webinar with a better understanding of how MySQL and its storage engines use indexes to speed up queries, and how you can improve query performance with basic and advanced index optimizations. Please register …

One of the great features of Shard-Query is the ability to use MySQL proxy to access resultsets transparently. While this is a great tool, many people have expressed reservations about using MySQL Proxy, an alpha component in their production environment.

I recognize that this is a valid concern, and have implemented an alternate method of retrieving resultsets directly in the MySQL client, without using a proxy. This means that any node can easily act as the “head” node without any extra daemon, instead of having to run many proxies.

The sq_helper() routine has been checked into the git repository and is available now.

The function takes a few parameters:

• sql to run
• shard-query schema name (empty string or null for default schema)
• schema to store temp table in
• temp table name (where results are sent to)
• return result (boolean, 1 returns …

#DBHangOps 03/05/15 -- Group Replication, Multithreaded Replication, and more!

Hello everybody!

Join in #DBHangOps this Thursday, March, 05, 2015 at 11:00am pacific (19:00 GMT), to participate in the discussion about:

• Group Replication
• Multithreaded Replication
• Operational learnings with GTID
• New MySQL 5.7 defaults from Morgan Tocker

You can check out the event page at https://plus.google.com/events/cjbmf109r6d7isr715iupigsrq4 on Thursday to participate.

As always, you can still watch the #DBHangOps twitter search, the @DBHangOps twitter feed, or this blog post to get a link for the google hangout on …

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I have merged a debugger for MySQL/MariaDB stored procedures and functions into our GUI client and posted the source and binaries on github. It allows breakpoint, clear, continue, next, skip, step, tbreakpoint, and variable displays. Features which are rare or missing in other debuggers include:
its current platform is Linux;
it allows breakpoints on functions which are invoked within SQL statements;
it never changes existing stored procedures or functions;
it is integrated with a general GUI client;
it allows commands like gdb and allows menu items / shortcut keys like ddd;
it is available on github as C++ source with GPL licence.

It's alpha and it's fragile but it works. Here is a demo.

Start the client and connect to a running server, as root. Actually the required privileges are merely for creation of certain objects and SUPER, but …