Why

Marco, why did you write this long article?

Yes, it is long, and I know most of the people will not read it in full, but my hope is that at least someone will, and I count on them to make the wave of sanity. 

Why I wrote it is simple. We write articles to share something we discover, or to share new approaches or as in this case to try to demystify and put in the right perspective the “last shining thing” that will save the world.  

The “last shining thing” is the use of containers for relational databases management systems (RDBMS) and all the attached solutions like Kubernetes or similar. 

Why is this a problem? The use of containers for RDBMS is not really a problem per se, but it had become a problem because it was not correctly contextualized and even more important, the model that should be used to properly design the solutions, was not reviewed and modified in …

Why

Marco, why did you write this long article?

Yes, it is long, and I know most of the people will not read it in full, but my hope is that at least someone will, and I count on them to make the wave of sanity. 

Why I wrote it is simple. We write articles to share something we discover, or to share new approaches or as in this case to try to demystify and put in the right perspective the “last shining thing” that will save the world.  

The “last shining thing” is the use of containers for relational databases management systems (RDBMS) and all the attached solutions like Kubernetes or similar. 

Why is this a problem? The use of containers for RDBMS is not really a problem per se, but it had become a problem because it was not correctly contextualized and even more important, the model that should be used to properly design the solutions, was not reviewed and modified in …

ProxySQL 2.3.0 was recently released and when I was reading the release notes, I was really impressed with the Group Replication enhancements and features. I thought of experimenting with those things and was interested to write a blog about them. Here, I have focused on the following two topics:

• When the replication lag threshold is reached, ProxySQL will move the server to SHUNNED state, instead of moving them to OFFLINE hostgroup. When shunning a server, it will be performed gracefully and not immediately drop all backend connections.
• The servers can be taken to maintenance through ProxySQL using “OFFLINE_SOFT”.

Test Environment

To test this, I have configured a three-node GR cluster (gr1,gr2,gr3) in my local environment. I have configured a single primary cluster (1 writer, 2 readers).

mysql> select member_host,member_state,member_role,member_version from …

I decided to write this article after a discussion with other colleagues.  We were wondering how and if the Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator(PDMO) could help a starting business or a new project inside an enterprise.  We were also wondering how it behaves in relation to already well established solutions, like Amazon RDS or Google SQL. 

In fact, we often see analysis and benchmarking covering huge datasets and instances with very high levels of resources . But we tend to forget that any application or solution started as something small, and it is important to identify a database platform that allows us to scale from zero to a decent amount of load, while keeping the cost as low as possible.  

This also happened while I was trying to get a bit more performance and stability out of Percona Operator for MySQL, and identify the possible minimal entrypoint and its usage. 

Given all the above …

I decided to write this article after a discussion with other colleagues.  We were wondering how and if the Percona Distribution for MySQL Operator(PDMO) could help a starting business or a new project inside an enterprise.  We were also wondering how it behaves in relation to already well established solutions, like Amazon RDS or Google SQL. 

In fact, we often see analysis and benchmarking covering huge datasets and instances with very high levels of resources . But we tend to forget that any application or solution started as something small, and it is important to identify a database platform that allows us to scale from zero to a decent amount of load, while keeping the cost as low as possible.  

This also happened while I was trying to get a bit more performance and stability out of Percona Operator for MySQL, and identify the possible minimal entrypoint and its usage. 

Given all the above …

As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how using the new dual passwords feature can reduce the overall DBA workload and streamline the management process. I’ve also covered how the new password failure tracking features can enable the locking of an account with too many failed password attempts (see MySQL 8: Account Locking).

There are other new and useful features that have been added to the user management capabilities in MySQL 8 however, and an often overlooked change was the implementation of a random password generator. First introduced in MySQL 8.0.18, with this feature, CREATE USER, ALTER USER, and SET PASSWORD statements have the capability of generating random passwords for user accounts as an alternative to …

There are plenty of ways to run ProxySQL in Kubernetes (K8S). For example, we can deploy sidecar containers on the application pods, or run a dedicated ProxySQL service with its own pods.

We are going to discuss the latter approach, which is more likely to be used when dealing with a large number of application pods. Remember each ProxySQL instance runs a number of checks against the database backends. These checks monitor things like server-status and replication lag. Having too many proxies can cause significant overhead.

Creating a Cluster

For the purpose of this example, I am going to deploy a test cluster in GKE. We need to follow these steps:

1. Create a cluster

gcloud container clusters create ivan-cluster --preemptible --project my-project --zone us-central1-c --machine-type n2-standard-4 --num-nodes=3

2. Configure command-line access

gcloud …

As we’ve communicated in our blog post in May, the TokuDB Storage Engine has been marked as “deprecated” in Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. It will be removed in a future version (Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28, expected to ship in Q1 2022).

With the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.26, the storage engine will still be included in the binary builds and packages but will be disabled by default. If you are upgrading from a previous version, the TokuDB Storage Engine plugin will fail with an error message at server startup if it is installed.

You will still be able to re-enable it manually so that you can perform the necessary migration steps.

Re-enabling the TokuDB …

When the time comes that you no longer have a need for specific data, use DELETE to remove it completely from your table. CodeIgniter 4 Models have a delete() method that is super-easy to use. Continue reading for more information…

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CodeIgniter 4 CRUD Series with MySQL

I have written a now complete 4-part series over on my Medium account about CodeIgniter 4 Model CRUD operations. Feel free and visit any of the previous posts in the series to get up to speed:

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As part of my ongoing focus on MySQL 8 user and password management, I’ve covered how the new dual passwords feature can reduce the overall DBA workload and streamline the management process (see MySQL 8: Dual Passwords). This wasn’t the only change to user/password management in MySQL 8; one of the more security-focused changes was the implementation of temporary account locking, first introduced in MySQL 8.0.19. With this feature, database administrators can now configure user accounts so that too many consecutive login failures can temporarily lock the account.

The account locking feature only applies to the failure of a client to provide a correct password during the connection attempt. It does not apply to failure to connect for other reasons (network issues, unknown user account, etc.). In the case of dual passwords, either of the account …