As MySQL is thriving and growing, we're looking for an experienced technical writer to join the MySQL documentation team. The documentation team is located in EMEA and in North America, and so you should be.

For this job, we need the best and most dedicated people around. You will be part of a geographically distributed documentation team responsible for the technical documentation of all MySQL products. Team members are expected to work independently, requiring discipline and excellent time-management skills as well as the technical facilities and experience to communicate across the Internet.

Candidates should be prepared to work intensively with our engineers and support personnel. The overall team is highly distributed across different geographies and time zones. Our source format is DocBook XML. We're not just writing documentation, but also handling publication, including maintenance of our toolset (XML, XSLT, …

Have you ever tried to start a server like MySQL and been amazed to see an error that the port is already in use? You rack your brain and try to figure out what it would be to no avail. Sometimes you do a “ps” in Linux and don’t even see anything that you think would be using the port. Well, forutantely, there are some tricks to help you find out without doing a reboot. If it is a production server, a reboot may not be an option anyway!

Below are some methods to help. We will start by looking at the “fuser” utility provided with many Linux distros:

fuser -n tcp 80
80/tcp:               1029  1030  1824  1838  1839  1840  1841 13972 14136 14137 14712

This example shows a simple check of everything using port 80. What you see above is a list of PIDs that are using that port. Now we could probably just do a simple “ps” to figure out what it is. You might also want to get more info by doing something like the …

Some time back, when a client wanted us to setup MySQL Enterprise Monitor, we were surprised to find out that disk monitoring was not available! We worked hard to come up with a solution. Eventually, we decided to setup a custom agent to monitor the disk. Below is the result of that.

While this script may not work as-is for everyone, it should at least provide a basis for such a script. This script has been modified to send an email instead of plug directly into the MySQL Enterprise Monitor. But, it hopefully will get our creative juices flowing…

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script does a very simple test for checking disk space.
#
# Itchy Ninja Software: http://www.itchyninja.com
#

CHECKDISK=`df -h | awk '{print $5}' | grep % | grep -v Use | sort -n | tail -1 | cut -d "%" -f1 -`
ALERT_VALUE="80"
MAIL_USER="root@localhost.com"
MAIL_SUBJECT="Daily Disk Check"

if [ "$CHECKDISK" -ge "$ALERT_VALUE" ]; then
echo "At least one of my disks is nearly …

Many of the DBA’s at Itchy Ninja Software, began their careers as PHP Programmers, or before… We remember times sitting in a small office together writing PHP code before there were even books on the subject! We were scouring the web looking for examples and such and relying heavy on the documentation at the php.net site!

We wrote custom shopping carts before the days of oscommerce, zencart, and such. We wrote code to interface with payment gateways and process credit cards live. We also wrote code to pull products from MySQL databases, show staff members, and such. We worked for a newspaper group and were writing news “engines” to pull the articles, archive data, etc.

Why am I reminiscing about all of that? Well, because frankly, we have been there. We know a lot of other developers are still there doing the kind of work that we began with. We know that we can help others not to make the same mistakes we have seen some of …

In the recently released TokuDB 7.5.5 the implementation of TokuDB hot-backup moved from a patch to the MySQL Server, to MySQL Plugin.  Why did we make this change?

TokuDB hot backup makes a transactionally consistent copy of the TokuDB files while applications continue to read and write these files.  Christian Rober wrote a nice series of blogs about how hot backup works.  See TokuDB hot backup 1 and TokuDB hot backup 2 for details.  In summary, the TokuDB hot backup library intercepts system calls that write files and duplicates the writes on backup files. It does this while copying files to the backup directory.

There are two changes made to MySQL to get TokuDB hot backup working.

First, the hot backup …

Good,, it’s very helpfully

This is a must see for anyone in the ever-transforming technology industry. Join Adrian Cockcroft, Jason Dixon, Nathen Harvey and Baron Schwartz discuss the Internet of Things. Some highlights:

• How do we reconcile the containerization dissonance?

• What are the advantages, scaling hurdles and security implications of Docker?

• What monitoring methods will ultimately reign supreme, and what tools are ahead of the curve?

• What are the paths toward DevOps, and will everyone eventually adapt?

• How do companies like Chef, Librato and NetFlix use containerization, monitoring and DevOps?

• What is the future of database as a service and the next big programming language?

• The 2020 landscape

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Taxonomy upgrade extras: nagiosicingaplug-inmonitorperformancealert

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.0.0 of its widely used Nagios and Icinga plug-ins for MySQL, Galera Cluster, MariaDB and Percona Server.

All plug-ins are basically renewed and should now work all correctly.

The new Nagios/Icinga plug-ins can be downloaded here.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the Nagios/Icinga plug-ins please …

Driven by popularity of previous post about Debian/Ubuntu builds of WebScaleSQL and long discussions during FOSDEM conference this weekend, PSCE engineering team decided to put even more effort into.

We would like to introduce:

• RPM packages available for download
• RedHat/CentOS repository

Architectures covered:

• x86 (32-bit)
• x86_64 (64-bit)

Please note that “WebScaleSQL does not currently maintain compatibility for anything except GNU/Linux x86_64.” (WebScaleSQL FAQ)”

RedHat/CentOS releases:

• CentOS 6
• CentOS 7

Packages can be downloaded from …