May 7, 2014 By Severalnines

Following the release of ClusterControl 1.2.6 a couple of weeks ago, we are now looking forward to demonstrating this latest version of the product on Tuesday next week, May 13th.

This release contains key new features (along with performance improvements and bug fixes), which we will be demonstrating live during the webinar. 

Highlights include:

• Centralized Authentication using LDAP or Active Directory
• Role-Based Access Control
• OpenStack: Galera Deployment Automation
• Hybrid setups with Galera and Asynchronous MySQL Replication
• Manage single instance …

The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 14.04 (nginx, BIND, MySQL, PHP, Postfix, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3)

This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of Apache), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier).

The Oracle Database 12c documentation says you can set the maximum size of a VARCHAR2 to 32,767 bytes. That’s true except when you’re trying to map a large Java string to a VARCHAR2. It fails when the physical size of the Java string is greater than 4,000 bytes with an ORA-01002 or fetch out of sequence error.

SELECT read_text_file('C:\Data\loader\Hobbit1.txt')
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-24345: A Truncation or null fetch error occurred
 
ERROR:
ORA-01002: fetch out of sequence

You need to grant privileges before you can test this code. You can grant privileges by connecting as the SYS user of a CDB (or non-multitenant database) or as the ADMIN user of a PDB with the AS SYSDBA clause. Then, you run the following command to grant external file access to the JVM inside Oracle Database 12c:

Percona Server version 5.6.17-65.0

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.17-65.0 on May 6th, 2014. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.17, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.17-65.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is …

SAN JOSE, CA– May 6, 2014 – Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of open source database clustering and replication solutions, today announced that their recently announced Tungsten Replicator 3.0 solution has been certified by Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™. Continuent Tungsten Replicator 3.0 enables organizations to quickly and easily 

Whither your rollback plan?

MySQL 5.6 upgrades are in full swing these days and knowing how to safely upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 is important. When upgrading a replication environment, it’s important that you can build a migration plan that safely allows for your upgrade with minimal risk — rollback is often a very important component to this.

For many people this means upgrading slaves first and then the master.  The strategy of an older master replicating to a newer slave is well known and has been supported in MySQL replication for a very long time.  To be specific:  you can have a MySQL 5.6 slave of a 5.5 master and this should work fine until you upgrade your master and/or promote one of the slaves to be the master.

However, there are those of us who like to live on the edge and do …

Taxonomy upgrade extras: mysqlBackupRestoreRecoverymysql_bmanpitrAbout

The MySQL Backup Manager (mysql_bman) is a wrapper script for standard MySQL backup tools. The Problem with MySQL backup tools is, that they have many options and thus are overcomplicated and errors are easy made.

mysql_bman has the intention to make backups for MySQL easier and technically correct. This means it should per default not allow non-consistent backups or complain if some functions or parameters are used in the …

Summary
Since MySQL 5.6 went GA—where among many other new features, we introduced full-text indexes for the InnoDB storage engine—questions have occasionally come up about InnoDB full-text search relevancy rankings when doing BOOLEAN MODE searches. Typically these questions revolved around a core issue: why do the results differ from that of MyISAM? In short, the InnoDB document search and relevancy rankings were modeled after the open source Sphinx full-text search engine, and not after the MyISAM storage engine (which sometimes simply produces incorrect results). The algorithms used for the InnoDB implementation are based on the well known …

mysql_install_db is the program that is responsible for bootstrapping a fresh copy of MySQL and making sure all of the system tables are setup correctly. This program is usually invoked by other programs as part of installation, but in the case of .tar.gz downloads will need to be executed manually.

As part of our ongoing efforts to refactor and improve MySQL, we are looking at converting mysql_install_db from its current Perl script to a program written in C++. The aim of this change is to reduce external dependencies (Perl + a set of modules) and improve our cross-platform experience.

We plan for this transition to be mostly function neutral, but are open to feature requests for additional improvements as well.

Have you worked in packaging MySQL?
Do you have any suggestions on how mysql_install_db can be improved?
Please leave a comment, or get in …

Location SkySQL Spain

I needed to test the new SkySQL server audit plug-in 1.1.7 on latest MariaDB 10.0.10
More info about that handy plug in you may find here : http://www.skysql.com/downloads/mariadb-audit-plugin
Take a moment to read the info, along with that nice blog : http://www.skysql.com/blogs/ralf-gebhardt/activating-auditing-mariadb-an...
Then I decided to test the CONNECT engine install as I have a friend who needs to import unknown DB data exported into XML.
And I was interested to import the Skype sqlite3 database into MySQL... :)

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