Hi! Just to say I wrote this new post about only_full_group_by tricks, on the MySQL Server team's blog.

This is a story of intermittent 500 Internal Server errors from APIs, that ended up being caused by a hardcoded constant in Go’s database/sql package. I’ll mostly spare you the long-winded story, and get right to the problem and what we found to be the cause.

We noticed an increased number of 500 errors from specific API endpoints, and started to troubleshoot. We initially found something odd. When we retried a failed call, it would succeed sometimes. After a few minutes, we found that we could “fix” the problem pretty easily by simply CURL’ing a failed API call a couple of times. After that, it would succeed again and again.

This was puzzling for a moment, but then we realized that the call would fail again after leaving the API idle for a few moments. Meanwhile, another team member looked up the changes we’d made to that API at the time it started to fail. (We use …

Taxonomy upgrade extras: max_allowed_packetconnectionBackupRestoredump

We recently run into some troubles with max_allowed_packet size problems during backups with the FromDual Backup/Recovery Manager and thus I investigated a bit more in the symptoms of such problems.

Read more about: max_allowed_packet.

A general rule for …

MariaDB 10.1.2 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.1.2/

This is the third alpha release of MariaDB 10.1, so there are still a lot of new changes, functionalities added, defaults changed, and many bugs fixed (I counted 117, which is *way* down from the 637 fixed in 10.1.1). Since it’s alpha, I’ll only cover the major changes and additions, and omit covering general bug fixes (feel free to browse them all here).

To me, these are the highlights of the new features:

• –mysql56-temporal-format option to use the MySQL-5.6 low level formats to store …

MariaDB 10.0.15 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.15/

This is the sixth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 16th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This release has an important InnoDB/XtraDB fix, a new addition, security enhancements (and improvement) – all related to yaSSL, so be sure to check out these fixes if you’re running MariaDB 10.0, and not up to 10.0.15 yet. (MariaDB 10.0 is the current stable series of MariaDB. It is an evolution of the MariaDB 5.5 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else and with backported and reimplemented features from MySQL 5.6.)

Here are the main items of note:

1. This release fixes a serious bug in InnoDB and XtraDB that sometimes could cause a hard lock up of the server ( …

Fri, 2015-01-16 15:32guillaumelefranc

This new blog series will be about how to easily automate common MariaDB administration tasks using Ansible. We will showcase how to automatically install and configure software such as MariaDB server, MariaDB Galera and MaxScale with ease in reproducible environments.

What’s Ansible?

Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates.

Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use. It also has a strong focus on security and reliability, featuring a minimum of moving parts, usage of OpenSSH for transport (with an accelerated socket mode and pull modes as alternatives), and a language that is designed around auditability by humans – even those not familiar with the program (source: Ansible …

Referring to the documentation, you may find how you can compile the udf-example.cc from the MySQL source distribution.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/udf-compiling.html

The article provides the steps for the compilation without downloading the full source distribution but creating your own external functions

We take the example from the UDF source "udf_example.c" downloaded from the following URL
https://github.com/twitter/mysql/blob/master/sql/udf_example.c

Pre-requiste
1. MySQL installation (e.g. /usr/local/mysql)
2. gcc (and gcc-c++) is installed.

The cflag to be used can be obtained by
mysql_config --cflags


To compile the source obtained (such as the one obtained from the above URL) -

 
The shared library is created 'udf_example.so'.   

Copy the …

This Log Buffer Edition covers blog posts from various bloggers of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

Sync tables: generate MERGE using Unique constraint.

What Hardware and Software Do YOU Want Oracle to Build?

There were a number of new features introduced in Ops Center 12.2.2. One of the shiny ones is an expansion of the backup and recovery capabilities to include Proxy Controllers.

Want to Be a Better Leader? Answer One Question.

Managing a remote …

I've gathered the main critiques of MySQL / MariaDB stored procedures, and will try some defences.

Monoglots

The critique:

SQL/PSM is the standard 4GL and it was the work of Andrew Eisenberg. Andy based it on ADA. Unless you are military, you have never seen ADA. Be grateful it is dead.
-- Joe Celko, reminiscing about his days on the SQL standard committee

Actually I believe Mr Celko likes SQL/PSM, which is the standard that MySQL and MariaDB follow. Here at last is your chance to see some Ada code, and compare with MySQL code ...

Ada

MySQL

declare a: integer;
begin

  a := 0;
  loop
    a := a + 100;
    exit when a = 200;
  end loop;
  if a /= 300 then
    a := 400;
  else
    a …

In my recent travels, I’ve been speaking with database users at various meetups and trade shows worldwide. Very often, I got questions centering around the best use cases for our products, be it TokuDB, our MySQL storage engine, or, TokuMX, our distribution of MongoDB. Over 90% of the time, I responded Cloud, Big Data or both. You see, in the software industry we’re like kindergartners, we like things to fit into neat categories. If you know any software sales people, you’ll recognize this as a fitting analogy (at least in terms of energy and attention span), but I digress. This strategy helps allocate resources where they are most likely to make an impact, and, thus, optimize our return on investment. In this blog series, I’m going to go slightly against the grain and explain why the Fractal Tree makes databases work in these environments.

Before I get into more detail, let me …