Global Transaction ID (GTID) is one of the major features that were introduced in MySQL 5.6 which provides a lot of benefits (I have talked about the GTID concept, implementation and possible troubleshooting at Percona Live London 2014, you can download the slides from our presentations repository or from my session at Percona Live.
On the other hand, there are some important things you should consider before deploying GTID in production, I'm going to list them here in this blog post.

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November 14, 2014 By Severalnines

Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in this week's webinar on '9 DevOps Tips for Going in Production with Galera Cluster for MySQL'. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available online.

In this webinar, Severalnines CTO Johan Andersson discussed 9 key aspects to consider before taking Galera Cluster for MySQL into production:

• 101 Sanity Check
• Operating System
• Backup Strategies
• Galera Recovery
• Query Performance
• Schema changes
• Security / Encryption
• Reporting
• Protecting from Disasters

Watch the replay 9 DevOps Tips for Going in …

This blog post was inspired by my visit at the annual Zabbix Conference in Riga, Latvia this year, where I gave a couple of talks on MySQL and beyond.

It was a two day single-track event with some 200 participants, a number of interesting talks on Zabbix (and related technologies) and really well-organized evening activities. I was amazed how well organized the event was and hope to be invited to speak there next year as well.   (Just in case you’re not sure what Zabbix is, it is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution for networks and applications)

I must secretly confess, it was also the first conference …

Fri, 2014-11-14 08:30anatoliydimitrov

You can use the popular programming language Python to manage data stored in MariaDB. Here is everything you need to know about connecting to MariaDB from Python for retrieving, updating, and inserting information.

Preparation and installation

If you don't already have MariaDB installed on your system, check the official MariaDB installation instructions or read the blog post on How to install MariaDB on CentOS 7.

If you want to try out Python integration with MariaDB but you don't have a database to play with, you can use the popular employees example database.

MariaDB provides …

Fri, 2014-11-14 08:30anatoliydimitrov

You can use the popular programming language Python to manage data stored in MariaDB. Here is everything you need to know about connecting to MariaDB from Python for retrieving, updating, and inserting information.

Preparation and installation

If you don't already have MariaDB installed on your system, check the official MariaDB installation instructions or read the blog post on How to install MariaDB on CentOS 7.

If you want to try out Python integration with MariaDB but you don't have a database to play with, you can use the popular employees example database.

MariaDB provides …

About 6 years ago (feels like an eternity in Rails world) working at Scribd I’ve started working on porting our codebase from some old version or Rails to a slightly newer one. That’s when I realized, that there wasn’t a ruby gem to help us manage MySQL connections for our vertically sharded databases (different models on different servers). I’ve started hacking on some code to replace whatever we were using back then, finished the first version of the migration branch and then decided to open the code for other people to use. That’s how the DbCharmer ruby gem was born.

For the next few years a lot of new functionality we needed has been added to the gem, making it more complex and immensely more powerful. I’ve enjoyed working on it, developing those features, contributing to the community. But then I left Scribd, stopped being a user of DbCharmer and the situation drastically changed. For quite some time (years) I would keep …

In C (and C++) you can specify that a variable should take a specific number of bits of storage by doing “uint32_t foo:4;” rather than just “uint32_t foo”. In this example, the former uses 4 bits while the latter uses 32bits. This can be useful to pack many bit fields together.

Or, that’s what they’d like you to think.

In reality, the C spec allows the compiler to do just about anything it wants with these bitfields – which usually means it’s something you didn’t expect.

For a start, in a struct -e.g. “struct foo { uint32_t foo:4; uint32_t blah; uint32_t blergh:20; }” the compiler could go and combine foo and blergh into a single uint32_t and place it somewhere… or it could not. In this case, sizeof(struct foo) isn’t defined and may vary based on compiler, platform, compiler version, phases of the moon or if you’ve washed your hands recently.

Where …

The 2014 edition of Percona Live London brought together attendees from 30 countries to hear insightful talks from leaders in the MySQL community. The conference kicked off on Monday with a full day of tutorials followed by the very popular Community Dinner featuring a double decker bus shuttle from the conference to the event.

Tuesday started with keynote talks by representatives from MySQL, VMware, HGST, Codership, and Percona. I particularly enjoyed the talks by Tomas Ulin of MySQL (which highlighted the upcoming MySQL 5.7 release) and Robert Hodges of VMware (which focused on the evolution of MySQL). The remainder of the day was filled by six time slots of breakout sessions (30 sessions in all) broken into 10 tracks. The day wrapped up with the always popular Community Networking Reception. Attesting to the …

Useful utility to check, repair, analyze and optimize mysql tables.  Just be aware that it locks the table, so don't run on busy production tables if they are clustered as probe may time out.

mysqlcheck --auto-repair --all-databases –uroot

Eg to extract the database OPALGATEWAY  from the dump file all-06-11-11-17:00-mk-staging-1.sql.gz  .

zcat all-06-11-11-17:00-mk-staging-1.sql.gz | awk '{ if ( $0 ~ /CREATE DATABASE.*OPALGATEWAY.*/ ) a=1; if ( $0 ~ /CREATE DATABASE / && $0 !~ /CREATE DATABASE.*OPALGATEWAY.*/ ) a=0;  if (a==1) print $0 }' | gzip -  | cat - >  /tmp/OPALGATEWAY.sql.gz