Have you ever tried to install Xtrabackup on Amazon EC2 instance with Oracle’s MySQL 5.6? Dependencies hell strikes when you ask pretty common and reasonable thing – run the GA version of MySQL and backup it with the most popular open-source tool – XtraBackup. From this post you will learn how to resolve the conflicts and make everybody happy.

mysql55-libs conflicts with mysql-community-libs-5.6.22

A fresh Amazon Linux AMI, 2014.09 EC2 instance comes with MySQL 5.5.40 in amzn-updates repository. Today MySQL 5.5 turns five years old. It’s a good and stable version. But many people want to run MySQL 5.6, because it’s better than 5.5, it supports full-text indexes and Oracle ends support of 5.5 this year.

Oracle distributes MySQL releases via YUM repository. Installing MySQL from the YUM repository is a good idea because YUM takes care of …

I was sad that it is over with Hack MySQL. It's features where very helpful to me especially in code testing.

VividCortex has always tracked process activity to help monitor and explain database performance, and recent enhancements to the Top Processes feature provide even more clarity. Often, processes impact one another in unexpected ways, and monitoring both MySQL and system resource utilization at high resolution is the only way to pinpoint those instances.

As we develop the product, our goal is to bring users deeper analysis of everything in the system through a unified interface across a diversity of platforms and technoligies. We are excited to announce our latest step is enhanced per-process metrics support for monitoring FreeBSD.

What does this mean? Quite simply, you can now enjoy the unparalleled insight we offer for Linux if you are using FreeBSD. This includes CPU, memory, I/O …

After 10 years HackMySQL.com has been retired. The tools are archived at github.com/daniel-nichter/hackmysql.com

I began writing MySQL tools in 2004 because at the time there were none except for mysqldumpslow. I was a Unix sysadmin in a large datacenter, so I worked on many different servers and MySQL instances. Tools for any sufficiently complex system are a necessity. Imagine a car mechanic trying to work without basic tools like an oil filter wrench, torque wrench, or belt tensioner. That's what work with MySQL was like in 2004. Certainly, many people made their own tools, but I think I was the first to develop, document, and publish general-purpose MySQL tools. If I wasn't the first then it's a tie with Baron Schwartz, creator of Maatkit. In 2008 he hired me at …

Add mysqlidxchk.

Add mysqlsniffer.

Add mysqlsla.

Add mysqlreport.

With new year already in fast gear, bloggers are sparing no stone unturned to come up with innovative ideas. This Log Buffer edition is keeping pace with them as always.

Oracle:

While playing with 12c Scott tried the upgrade to the DEFAULT column syntax that now allows sequences.

This is an age old question and of course the answer depends on how you say “SQL”.

Happy New Year! Upgraded 12.1.0.1 Grid Infrastructure to 12.1.0.2 and applied the Oct 2014 PSU. Had an error during rootupgrade.sh as well, due to the ASM spfile being on disk instead of on ASM diskgroup.

If you (already) created your first …

Query caching is one of the prominent features in MySQL and a vital part of query optimization. It is important to know how it works as it has the potential to cause significant performance improvements – or a slowdown – of your workload.

The MySQL query cache is a global one shared among the sessions. It caches the select query along with the result set, which enables the identical selects to execute faster as the data fetches from the in memory. It is important to have everything identical, no new comments, spaces, or most significantly differences in the WHERE clause. Basically when you trigger a select query, if it is available in the cache; it fetches from there or it considers the query as a new one and will go to the parser.

Even though it has some nice advantages, the MySQL query cache has its own downsides too. Well, let’s think about this: If you are frequently updating the table, you are then invalidating …