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MySQL 5.7.7 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.7, and is the first “RC” or “Release Candidate” release of 5.7), and is available for download here and here.

As for the fixes/changes, there are quite a few again, which is expected in an early RC release.

The main highlights for me were (though the enhancements, and potentially impactful changes, are definitely not limited to this list):

• Optimizer Note: It is now possible to provide hints to the optimizer within individual SQL statements, which enables finer control over statement execution plans than can be achieved using the optimizer_switch system variable. Optimizer hints are specified as /*+ … */ comments following the SELECT, INSERT, REPLACE, …

MySQL 5.7.6 was recently released (it is the latest MySQL 5.7, and is the “m16” or “Milestone 16” release), and is available for download here and here.

As for the fixes/changes, there are quite a few (the official release was again split into 3 separate emails), which is expected in a “milestone” release.

The main highlights for me were (though the enhancements, and potentially impactful changes, are definitely not limited to this list):

• Incompatible Change: The CREATE USER and ALTER USER statements have additional account-management capabilities. Together, they now can be used to fully establish or modify authentication, SSL, and resource-limit properties, as well as manage password expiration and account locking and …

The fsfreeze command, is used to suspend and resume access to a file system. This allows consistent snapshots to be taken of the filesystem. fsfreeze supports Ext3/4, ReiserFS, JFS and XFS.

A filesystem can be frozen using following command:

# /sbin/fsfreeze -f /data

Now if you are writing to this filesystem, the process/command will be stuck. For example, following command will be stuck in D (UNINTERUPTEBLE_SLEEP) state:

# echo “testing” > /data/file

Only after the filesystem is unfreezed using the following command, can it continue:

# /sbin/fsfreeze -u /data

As per the fsfreeze main page, “fsfreeze is unnecessary for device-mapper devices. The device-mapper (and LVM) automatically freezes filesystem on the device when a snapshot creation is requested.”

fsfreeze is provided by the util-linux package in RHEL systems. Along with userspace support, fsfreeze also …

기본 InnoDB 전문 검색(Full Text) 파서는 공백이나 단어 분리자가 토큰인 라틴 기반 언어들에서는 이상적이지만 개별 단어에 대한 고정된 구분자가 없는 중국어, 일본어, 한국어(CJK)같은 언어들에서는 각 단어는 여러개의 문자들의 조합으로 이루어집니다. 그래서 이경우엔 단어 토큰들을 처리할 수 있는 다른 방법이 필요합니다.

우리는 CJK에서 사용할 수 있는 n-gram 파서를 제공하기 위한 새로운 플러그블 전문 파서(pluggable full-text parser)를 MySQL 5.7.6 에서 제공할 수 …

Encryption is important component of secure environments. While being intangible property security doesn’t get enough attention when it comes to describing various systems. “Encryption support” is often the most of details what you can get asking how secure the system is. Other important details are often omitted, but the devil in details as we know. In this post I will describe how we secure backup copies in TwinDB.

See the picture. This is what happens when encryption is used incorrectly. The encryption algorithm can be perfect, but poor choice of the mode results in a quite readable encrypted image. This mode is called “Electronic Code Book”, avoid it at all means.

Another bright example of improper encryption use was illustrated in Venona project.

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Upgrading MySQL

Upgrading MySQL is a task that is almost inevitable if you have been managing a MySQL installation for any length of time. To accomplish that task, we have provided a utility and documentation to upgrade from one version of MySQL to another. The general recommendation is to perform the upgrade by stepping from one major release to the next, without skipping an intermediate major release. For example, if you are at 5.1.73, and you want to go to 5.6.24, the safest and recommended method is to upgrade from 5.1.73 to 5.5.43 (the latest 5.5 release at the time of this writing), and then upgrade from 5.5.43 to 5.6.24 (or any version of 5.6). This allows the …

Madrid MySQL Users Group is having a Meetup this afternoon, Wednesday, 13th May at 19:00. I will be presenting (in Spanish) a quick summary of Percona Toolkit and also offering a summary of the new features in MySQL 5.7 as the release candidate has been announced and we don’t expect new functionality. This is also … Continue reading MMUG12: Talk about Percona Toolkit and the new features of MySQL 5.7

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