MySQL sys version 1.2.0 has just been released.

All views now work with MySQL 5.7.5, and the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY changes.

There is also a new script available (generate_sql_file.sh) that will allow RDS users to easily generate a single SQL file, using a specified user, that can be loaded in to an RDS instance. See the README for details on how to use that.

Here’s a full summary of the other changes:

Backwards Incompatible Changes

• The host_summary_by_stages and user_summary_by_stages wait_sum and wait_avg columns were renamed to total_latency and avg_latency respectively, for consistency.
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I just publish a post on the Booking.com blog: http://blog.booking.com/better_crash_safe_replication_for_mysql.html  Spoiler: it uses Binlog Servers.

This is also the opportunity to tell you that I will be at Percona Live London at the beginning of November, and that I will give a talk about Binlog Servers: High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Extreme Read Scaling using Binlog Servers.  I

So as you may know, my new position involves the MySQL world, so I’m in the task of picking up the language and whereabouts of this DBMS, and my teamate Alkin Tezuysal (@ask_dba on Twitter) has a very cool break and fix lab which you should check out if you are going to Percona Live London 2014, he will be running this lab, so be sure to don’t miss out.

So the first thing I tried was to bring up the service, but to my surprise, the MySQL user didn’t exist. So the first thing I did was create the user.

Note: Whenever you see “…”, it is to …

We have come a long way since the first code was put down for libAttachSQL on the 4th July. It has been a fantastic project to work on so I am very pleased to announce our first GA release.

For those who haven't seen it so far libAttachSQL is a non-blocking, lightweight C API for MySQL servers. It is Apache 2.0 licensed so is compatible with most Open Source and commercial licensing. HP's Advanced Technology Group saw a need in this field not just for HP itself but for other companies and projects too.

As for the GA release itself, there are not many changes over the RC release beyond stability fixes. A full list can be seen in the version history documentation.

In addition to the GA release we have recently had a driver for …

Wed, 2014-10-22 09:02svetoslavsavov

Next time you want to build a fast, well-optimized website, don't forget the database system. Many content management systems (CMS) let you choose a relational database management system (RDBMS) to use on the back end. MySQL, famous for its stability and security, is a popular choice; in addition to its numerous features, it has a large community, many contributors, and good documentation. However, MySQL is now owned by Oracle, and its open-source status is not guaranteed, which makes MariaDB, an application compatible database system, an excellent alternative.

Joomla, a popular CMS, is written in PHP and by default uses MySQL as its database system. Since MariaDB can provide improved functionality, performance, and stability, you might want to use MariaDB instead of MySQL with Joomla. Although MariaDB is not listed in …

Wed, 2014-10-22 09:02svetoslavsavov

Next time you want to build a fast, well-optimized website, don't forget the database system. Many content management systems (CMS) let you choose a relational database management system (RDBMS) to use on the back end. MySQL, famous for its stability and security, is a popular choice; in addition to its numerous features, it has a large community, many contributors, and good documentation. However, MySQL is now owned by Oracle, and its open-source status is not guaranteed, which makes MariaDB, an application compatible database system, an excellent alternative.

Joomla, a popular CMS, is written in PHP and by default uses MySQL as its database system. Since MariaDB can provide improved functionality, performance, and stability, you might want to use MariaDB instead of MySQL with Joomla. Although MariaDB is not listed in …

Every now and then there is a need to execute certain SQL statements conditionally. Easy, if you do it from your PHP (or Java or whatever) application. But if all you have is pure SQL? There are two techniques that MariaDB and MySQL use in the mysql_fix_privilege_tables.sql script (applied by mysql_upgrade tool).

1. Create a stored procedure with IF statements inside, call it once and drop it. This requires the user to have the CREATE ROUTINE privilege and mysql.proc table must exist and be usable (which is not necessarily true — we’re doing it from mysql_upgrade, right?).
2. Use dynamic SQL, like
   

   SET @str = IF (@have_csv = 'YES',
                  'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS general_log (
                     event_time TIMESTAMP(6) NOT NULL,
                     user_host MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL,
                     thread_id BIGINT(21) UNSIGNED NOT NULL, …

I reckon there’s little sense in running 2 or more Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) nodes in a single physical server other than for educational and testing purposes – but doing so is still useful in those cases. The most popular way of achieving this seems to be with server virtualization, such as making use of Vagrant boxes. But in the same way you can have multiple instances of MySQL running in parallel on the OS level in the form of concurrent mysqld processes, so too can you have multiple Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes. And the way to achieve this is precisely the same: using dedicated datadirs and different ports for each node.

Which ports?4 tcp ports are used by Pecona …

In 5.7.5, as a part of the larger effort to improve error handling, we re-implemented the IGNORE clause (WL#6614). The IGNORE clause is a MySQL extension to the SQL standard. It affects the errors which occur for each row. The new implementation aims to make the behavior of the IGNORE clause more consistent.

Statements which support the IGNORE clause are:

• INSERT [ IGNORE ]
• UPDATE [ IGNORE ]
• DELETE [ IGNORE ]
• LOAD DATA [ IGNORE ]
• LOAD XML [ IGNORE ]
• CREATE TABLE… [ IGNORE ] SELECT

When the INSERT statement is used to insert a number of rows into a table, an exception during processing would normally abort the statement and return an error message. With the IGNORE keyword, rows that cause certain exceptions are ignored, but the remaining rows are inserted and the …

I will be talking at Open Source India scheduled at NIMHANS convention center at Bangalore on 7th and 8th of Nov 2014.

Oracle has been associated with the Open Source India conference for the past 4 years and this will be the 5th year when we will be taking part in this conference and talking about MySQL to the open source community.

OSI gives us a great opportunity and a platform to speak to and hear from the open source community. There have been some great interactions with developers, users, customers of MySQL and some really great people involved with the open source movement in India.

We look forward to interact with the open source community again. While we will likely learn much this conference about the progress of the open source community in India, we will also be informing you about the fantastic progress Oracle has made with MySQL in the past year. …