In this blog post, I’m going to revisit the ProxySQL Query Rewrite feature. You may have seen me talking about possible use case scenarios in the past few conferences, but the reason I’m starting with this is that query rewriting was the original intention for building ProxySQL.

Why would you need to rewrite a query?

• You’ve identified a query that’s causing bottleneck or slowness
• A special operation requires query routing
• You cannot modify application code

So here we have a case of a bad query hitting the backend database. You as a DBA have identified the query as causing severe slowdown, which could lead to a site-wide outage. This query needs to be optimized, and you have asked the developer …

Earlier this year, I was presented with the challenge of streamlining user access to MySQL, allowing users self-serve access using their LDAP credentials, while logging all access. Of course, various MySQL forks allow for user auditing, but the solution is also needed to eventually support other data storage systems without native user auditing. This gave me the opportunity to do a trial integration of MySQL, Vault, ProxySQL, and LDAP; Vault would be used to dynamically create user accounts, and ProxySQL would be used to limit access and log activity. To evaluate the functionality and configuration of the integration, I used Docker to set up a test environment.

Below I will present the methods used to:

1. Provision the Docker environment.
2. Configure OpenLDAP. …

Please join Percona’s Architect, Tibi Köröcz as he presents Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 Tutorial on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at 7:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-4).

Never used Percona XtraDB Cluster before? Come join this 45-minute tutorial where we will introduce you to the concepts of a fully functional Percona XtraDB Cluster.

In this tutorial, we will show you how you can install Percona XtraDB Cluster with ProxySQL, and monitor it with Percona …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Percona Live is just over a week away — there’s an awesome keynote lineup, and you really should register. Also don’t forget to save the date as Percona Live goes to Frankfurt, Germany November 5-7 2018! Prost!

In acquisitions, we have seen MariaDB acquire MammothDB and …

This is our third blog in the ProxySQL Series

1. MySQL Replication Read-write Split up

2. Seamless Replication Switchover Using MHA

This blog post explains one of the very important use case of ProxySQL called Mirroring.

Mirroring in ProxySQL is not an equivalent to MySQL replication. Also it does not guarantee data consistency across the servers but still there are a few cases where this feature of ProxySQL can take advantage.

Let us consider we have Master-Slave replication running behind ProxySQL with MySQL 5.6 Writes and Reads are served by Master and Slave …

Introduction

One of the things I like about Continuent Tungsten is how Tungsten Connector can hold traffic while a (graceful) master switch is taking place. This means the application may experience a brief spike in latency, but has not returned any errors from the database layer.

René also described a similar process using ProxySQL and mysqlrpladmin here. In this post we will try to achieve the same feat, a graceful master switchover with ProxySQL and Orchestrator.

ProxySQL considerations

ProxySQL needs to isolate our application from the changes going on at the database layer.
By design, if a query needs to be sent to a hostgroup that has no servers in ONLINE state, ProxySQL waits until either a server becomes available or a timeout expires (mysql-connect_timeout_server_max if I am not …

In this blog post, we demonstrate a new feature in ProxySQL Admin: support for multiple clusters.

In a previous blog post, Ramesh and Roel introduced a new tool that helps configured Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes into ProxySQL. However, at that time it only worked for a single cluster per ProxySQL Admin configuration. Starting from …

We’ve posted the Percona Live 2018 keynote addresses for the seventh annual Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. 

This year’s keynotes explore topics ranging from how cloud and open source database adoption accelerates business growth, to leading-edge emerging technologies, to the importance of MySQL 8.0, to the growing popularity of PostgreSQL.

We’re excited by the great lineup of speakers, including our friends at Alibaba Cloud, Grafana, Microsoft, Oracle, Upwork and VividCortex, the innovative leaders on the Cool Technologies panel, and Brendan Gregg …

We’ve been searching for a great venue for Percona Live Europe 2018, and I am thrilled to announce we’ll be hosting it in Frankfurt, Germany! Please block November 5-7, 2018 on your calendar now and plan to join us at the Radisson Blu Frankfurt for the premier open source database conference.

We’re in the final days of organizing for the Percona Live 2018 in Santa Clara. You can still purchase tickets for an amazing lineup of keynote speakers, tutorials and sessions. We have ten tracks, including MySQL, MongoDB, Cloud, PostgreSQL, Containers and Automation, Monitoring and Ops, and Database Security. Major areas of focus at the conference will include:

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In this blog post, I’ll look at how you can use ProxySQL with AWS Aurora to further leverage database performance.

My previous article described how easy is to replace the native Aurora connector with ProxySQL. In this article, you will see WHY you should do that.

It is important to understand that aside from the basic optimization in the connectivity and connection management, ProxySQL also provides you with a new set of features that currently are not available in Aurora.

Just think:

• Better caching
• Query filtering
• Sharding
• Query substitution
• Firewalling
• … and more

We will cover areas like scalability, security and performance. In short, I think is more than worth it to spend some time and give …