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A series of related discussions triggered by difficulty in setting passwords via scripts using the mysql command-line client when an account has an expired password caused me to look into the interaction between expired passwords and batch mode, and this blog post resulted.  I hope it’s a useful explanation of the behavior and the workaround to those troubled by it, and amplifies the excellent documentation in the user manual.

The ability to flag accounts as having expired passwords first appeared in MySQL 5.6, with further …

With MariaDB and MySQL we have always taken security seriously.

In MariaDB 10.0 we added roles to make it easier to administrate many users.

MariaDB and MySQL has also many different encryption functions, but what has been neglected in the past is to make encryption easy to use.

This is now about to change.

I recently had a meeting with Elmar Eperiesi-Beck from eperi about simplifying the usage of encryption. We agreed to start a close collaboration around encryption for MariaDB with an …

Database auditing is the monitoring of selected actions of database users. It doesn’t protect the database in case privileges are set incorrectly, but it can help the administrator detect mistakes.

Audits are needed for security. You can track data access and be alerted to suspicious activity. Audits are required for data integrity. They are the only way to validate that changes made to data are correct and legal.

There are several regulations that require database audits:

• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 is a US federal law that regulates how financial data must be handled and protected.
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, otherwise known as PCI-DSS is an international standard developed to protect cardholder’s data.
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enacted by the U.S. Congress to protect medical and personal information.

MySQL …

As we’ve hinted at for some time now, we have been busy preparing some good stuff for our Debian and Ubuntu users. And today we’re delighted to launch our own official MySQL apt repos for Debian and Ubuntu. After working closely with the Debian and Ubuntu communities to make sure that the native MySQL packages […]

This week we discuss pt-table-checksum for keeping data in sync. Ear Candy is a rational look at why one company chose MySQL; At the Movies is using MySQL in a practical way for Big Data.

pt-table-checksum
pt-table-checksum
pt-table-sync

Episode 151, where we talked about Oracle toolsmysqldbcompare and mysqldiff
Options discussed:
--replicate, --no-create-replicate-table

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Hi there, today we will learn about an amazing tool that every single MySQL dba must know, I’m talking about MySQL Sandbox.

MySQL Sandbox is developed by Giuseppe Maxia (The Data Charmer), it’s a tool that make the installation of MySQL servers very easy. If you need to quickly create a MySQL instance for test or a replication setup(it supports master slave, circular and master master replication), this it the tool.

INSTALLATION:

Go to http://mysqlsandbox.net/ and get the latest version (I got from launchpad):

yum install perl perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-Test-Simple
wget https://launchpad.net/mysql-sandbox/mysql-sandbox-3/mysql-sandbox-3/+download/MySQL-Sandbox-3.0.44.tar.gz
tar -zxvf MySQL-Sandbox-3.0.44.tar.gz
cd MySQL-Sandbox-3.0.44
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

CREATING A SINGLE …

MySQL Fabric and 5.7 will be the topics of presentations this Thursday (5/22) at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, California. Lee Stigile is presenting: What’s new in MySQL 5.7, and Sastry Vendantam is presenting MySQL Fabric.

Agenda is as follows:

5:00-5:30 Networking/Socialize over food and drinks
5:30-6:00 Lee will present MySQL 5.7
6:00-6:30 Sastry will present Fabric
6:30-7:00 Q&A and Socialize over food and drinks

Here is the link to register/RSVP

Plug and Play Tech Center
Thursday, May 22, 2014 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)
440 N Wolfe Rd
Sunnyvale, CA 94085

In MySQL 5.7, we have improved the scalability of DML oriented workloads in InnoDB. This is the result of a number of changes, which I will outline below.

(1) Fix index->lock contention

This RW lock protects all indexes, both the cluster and the secondary indexes.

Before 5.7, every modifications to non-leaf pages (every modifications for the tree structure) required to exclude the other threads’ access to the whole index by X-lock, and every concurrent accessing the index tree were blocked. This was the major reason of the index->lock contention in concurrent DML workloads.

In MySQL 5.7 concurrent access is now permitted to the non-leaf pages (internal nodes of the B+Tree) as long as they are not related to the concurrent tree structure modifications (WL#6326). This change reduces the major point of contention.

(2) …

Team MariaDB is touring across several European regions. Theme is: Reaching New Heights - Proven Features and Cool New Technologies. Beside product pitches you will get an overview why the availability of an enterprise-grade SQL database platform with NoSQL interoperability is a game changer for developers building serious revenue-generating applications and DBAs that run large, complex data environments.

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