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Today, we interview Silvia Botros, the current Database Administrator at Sendgrid.

How did you get from stork to brainiac (i.e. what do you do today and how did you get there)?

I was a late bloomer to using computers at all. Having grown up in Egypt in a middle class family, I didn’t own a computer until I was in my second year of college. That was when I realized my love of Mathematical Logic could easily translate into telling a computer a set of commands and actually get some result.   After my move to the US and finishing college in California, I took a job in New York as a Junior Software Engineer …

Since Ruby on Rails 4.2 has just been released, perhaps now is a good time to review creating a shiny new Rails project. It’s not often I get to create a new project from scratch, but it’s Christmas and I’ve got a bit of downtime — and an itch I’d like to scratch! So, let’s get started.

I’m aiming to build a wee project that keeps track of OmniFocus perspectives. I’ve noticed that people are sharing their perspectives as screenshots and descriptions, in tweets and blog posts. Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a one-stop-shop for everybody’s perspectives?

A couple of early decisions in terms of the basic starting point:

• Chances are I’ll deploy the app onto Heroku, so it’s a no-brainer to start out by using PostgreSQL in development. (Even …

Today I was doing some tests with XA transactions in MySQL 5.6.

The output of the XA RECOVER command to list transactions was hard to read because of the representation of the data column:

The good news is that 5.7 has transaction information in performance_schema:

mysql> select trx_id, isolation_level, state, xid, xa_state, access_mode 
    -> from performance_schema.events_transactions_current;
+-----------------+-----------------+--------+--------+----------+-------------+
| trx_id          | isolation_level | state  | xid    | xa_state | access_mode |
+-----------------+-----------------+--------+--------+----------+-------------+
|            NULL | REPEATABLE READ | ACTIVE | x-1    | PREPARED | READ WRITE  |
| 421476507015704 | REPEATABLE READ | …

Somebody ran into the following error message trying to query the innodb_sys_foreign and innodb_sys_foreign_cols tables from the information_schema database:

      ERROR 1227 (42000): Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS privilege(s) for this operation

It’s easy to fix the error, except you must grant the PROCESS privilege. It’s a global privilege and it should only be granted to super users. You grant the privilege global PROCESS privilege to the student user with the following command:

GRANT PROCESS ON *.* TO student;

Then, you can run this query to resolve foreign keys to their referenced primary key column values:

SELECT   SUBSTRING_INDEX(f.id,'/',-1) AS …

Hey,
Its fairly common. Please refer – http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/replication-howto.html

First step of successful MySQL data recovery is to find InnoDB pages with your data. Let’s call it first, because prerequisite steps are already done.

InnoDB page type is a two bytes integer stored in the header of a page. For MySQL data recovery two are important:

• FIL_PAGE_INDEX. Pages of this type are nodes of B+ Tree index where InnoDB stores a table.
• FIL_PAGE_TYPE_BLOB. So called external pages, where InnoDB keeps long values of BLOB or TEXT type.

stream_parser reads a stream of bytes, finds InnoDB pages and sorts them per type, per index or page id. It applies sophisticated algorithms tailored for particular page type. Of course, it assumes that page type in the header corresponds to the content of the page, otherwise it will ignore the page.

…

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So I noticed a few different questions and posts about parsing a string out of another string recently. While some solutions included creating new functions and etc it can also be done within a single query in some cases.

For example, let us say that we are looking to pull out the domain from a URL. I will try to go into detail as to why and how this works.
We have the following table.

CREATE TABLE `parse_example` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `urldemo` varchar(150) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;
+----+----------------------------+
| id | urldemo                    |
+----+----------------------------+
|  1 | http://www.mysql.com/      |
|  2 | …

Nos gustaría desearte unas felices fiestas en nombre del equipo de DBAHire.com. ¡Que todos vuestros sueños se hagan realidad en el 2015!

Fotografía tomada en el mercado de navidad de Valencia (España) en diciembre de 2014.

¡Que vuestras innodb_buffer_pool_reads sean bajas y vuestro Uptime alto en 2015!

We would like to wish you a happy holidays on behalf of the DBAHire.com team. May all your dreams come true in 2015!

Photograph taken at the Christmas market of Valencia (Spain) in December 2014.

May your MySQL innodb_buffer_pool_reads be low and your Uptime high in 2015.