Is your application multi-tenancy, where each tenant lives in its own database? We have such a scenario at VividCortex, and many of our customers do as well. Wouldn't it be nice to understand which tenants are causing more load than others, which are the noisy neighbors impacting others' experience, and so on? Well, now you can!

We now support per-database metrics in Top Queries. You can change the Rank menu from Queries to Databases, and you will see a breakdown of database activity in the familiar format, all in 1-second resolution.

As you can see from the Lock Waits column in the image, computed columns work as usual too, so you can quickly figure out which databases are consuming more resources such as CPU or IO in addition to the standard metrics (time, count, latency, and so on).

We detect the database by …

THe MySQL APT Repository provides an easy and convenient way to get the latest MySQL software. My test server was need of a refresh so I put on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and downloaded mysql-apt-config_0.2.1-1ubuntu14.04_all.deb.

sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.2.1-1ubuntu14.04_all.deb
[sudo] password for dstokes:
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-apt-config.
(snip)

You will get a choice to install MySQL 5.6 or the latest 5.7 DMR.

sudo apt-get update Pulls the latest information from the repository for the various packages.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server Installs the server and will start it running. And then a quick sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench to get me where i needed to be.

There is a detailed information at …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.19-67.0 on July 1, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.19, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.19-67.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and …

The MySQL Workbench team announces availability of version 6.1.7 of its flagship product.

MySQL Workbench 6.1.7 is a periodic maintenance release including 17 bug fixes. Additionally, the supported Linux distribution list has been refreshed. Users of the product are recommended to upgrade to this version.

MySQL Workbench 6.1

With over 30 new features, this version has many significant enhancements focusing on real-time performance assessment and analysis from the SQL statement level to server internals and file IO. You can see this from additions to the SQL Editor as well as new dashboard visualization and reporting that take advantage of MySQL Server 5.6 and 5.7 Performance Schema, and enhancements to the MySQL Explain Plans.

Additionally Workbench 6.1 is leveraging work from various teammates in MySQL Engineering by introducing a schema called "SYS" that provides simplified views …

This week we start talking about common schema by Shlomi Noach. Ear Candy is some caveats about GTIDs and replication, and At the Movies is using jQuery, AJAX and PHP to insert data into MySQL.

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Common Schema
Common Schema Google Code page

Installation section of the common schema documentation.

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Introduction

Eventual consistency [1] is a consistency model, which is used in many large distributed databases. Such databases require that all changes to a replicated piece of data eventually reach all affected replicas. Furthermore, the conflict resolution is not handled in these databases, and the responsibility is pushed up to the application authors in the event of conflicting updates. Eventual consistency is a specific form of weak consistency: the storage system guarantees that if no new updates are made to the object, eventually all accesses will return the last updated value [1]. If no failures occur, the maximum size of the inconsistency window can be determined based on the factors such as communication delays, the load on the system, and the number of replicas involved in the replication scheme. We earlier in …

MySQL Enterprise Backup(MEB) has been widely used as the most efficient tool to take backups of huge databases. The storage of backups can be done on-premises – viz, local hard disk, external hard disk drives, network mounted disk. MEB can also stream backups to tape by supporting different Media Management Software like Symantec NetBackup, EMC2 and Oracle Secure Backup. Streaming of backups can also be done using 'ssh' to another machine.

As data keeps growing, instead of expanding the storage, database users are choosing to rely on the growing trend which is the Cloud Storage.

A few facts about Cloud Storage:

1. Offers off-premises storage with AAA(Anytime, Anywhere Access)
2. Sharing of data to make a collaborative effort.
3. Highly fault tolerant, durable and scalable and secure.
4. Cost-effective

To the benefit of our MySQL database users, Mysql …

Most MySQL-ers quickly learn to move logs out of the data directory. Hopefully the logs are being written to a different disk, on a different controller than where the data is being kept. The horror of finding you database server dead to the world because the single partition used for everything was filled up by the error log should be a thing of the past. MySQL 5.7 will give DBAs better control of log files,

As of 5.7.2, we have gained the ability to control the verbosity of error messages with log_error_verbosity. This system variable controls verbosity in writing error, warning, and note messages to the error log. A value of 1 provides errors only, 2 adds warnings, and 3 adds notes. The default value is 3. And with that with level 3, aborted connections and access-denied errors for new connection attempts are written to the error log.

The good ol’ log_warnings is being deprecated in favor of the added …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.12 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in about 1 week. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

You will also find the binaries on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in approximately 1 week. Choose "MySQL Database" as the Product Pack …

I think that getting 128-bit types into MySQL would be good. There are a few use cases for this and right now we have to work around them. That should not be necessary.  While not essential they would make things easier. The headline is easy to understand, but is this really needed? First we need … Continue reading Time to get some 128-bit types into MySQL?