Keeping user account details secure is always at the forefront of a Database Administrator's mind. However, users want to get up and running as soon as possible without complex login procedures.

You can learn more about this and many other topics in the MySQL for Database Administrator course.

For example, MySQL 5.6.6 introduced a new utility: mysql_config_editor, which makes secure access via MySQL client applications much easier to establish, while still providing a good measure of security.

The mysql_config_editor stores a user's authentication details in an encrypted login file called mylogin.cnf. This login file is readable and writable for the user who invokes the utility, and invisible to everyone else. You can use it to collect all your …

This week, we discuss DB Hangops with special guest, Geoffrey Anderson. Ear Candy is that GTIDs in MariaDB and MySQL are different, and At the Movies is Jonathan Levin talking about deduplicating your data with MySQL.

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Anemometer, a tool for reporting on and graphing slow queries, developed by Box.

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We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.11 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 …

Oracle's expensive and complex replication makes it difficult to build cost-effective applications that move data in real-time to data warehouses (Oracle, Hadoop, Vertica) and popular databases like MySQL. Fortunately, Continuent Tungsten offers a solution.In this virtual course, you will learn how Continuent Tungsten solves problems with Oracle replication at a fraction of the cost of other

One interesting feature of MySQL, is that it supports a very large number of integer data types. From the MySQL manual:

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To run MariaDB from Eclipse we will actually create and install the tar.gz package resulting from compilation(See Part 2) in a separate directory, this will allow us to have MariaDB cleanly installed on a separate location and so it will be also easily possible to run it independently from Eclipse.

In these Blog posts series we assume:

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I’m pleased to say that Continuent will be at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose next week (3-5 June). Sadly I will not be attending as I’m taking an exam next week, but my colleagues Robert Hodges, Eero Teerikorpi and Petri Versunen will be there to answer any questions you have about Continuent products, and, of course, Hadoop replication support built into Tungsten Replicator 3.0.

If you are at the conference, please go along and say hi to the team. And, as always, if there are any questions please let them or me know.

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This is the third post in our MySQL Fabric series. If you missed the previous two, we started with an overall introduction, and then a discussion of MySQL Fabric’s high-availability (HA) features. MySQL Fabric was RC when we started this series, but it went GA recently. You can read the press release here, and see this blog post from Oracle’s Mats Kindahl for more details. In our previous post, we showed a simple HA setup managed with MySQL Fabric, including some basic failure scenarios. …

MariaDB 10.0.11 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.11/

This is the second GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 12th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.

Here are the main items of note:

1. Updated TokuDB engine to version 7.1.6
2. Updated Spider storage engine to version 3.2 (now Gamma)
3. Updated XtraDB storage engine to version 5.6.17-65.0
4. Updated InnoDB storage engine to version 5.6.17
5. Updated …

Getting data into Hadoop is not difficult, but it is complex if you want to load 'live' or semi-live data into your Hadoop cluster from your Oracle and MySQL databases. There are plenty of solutions available, from manually dumping and loading to the good and bad sides of using a tool like Sqoop. Neither are easy and both prone to the problems of lag between the moment you perform the dump and