On September 21st, during the opening keynote at MySQL Connect 2013, Tomas Ulin disclosed the release of MySQL 5.7.2. This is a milestone release that includes several new features. Unlike the Previous one, which was just a point of pride, where Oracle was stating its continuous commitment to releasing new versions of MySQL. In MySQL 5.7.2, we see several new features:

• First and foremost, performance. The announcement slides say MySQL 5.7.2 is 95% faster than MySQL 5.6 and 172% faster than MySQL 5.5. I don’t know yet in which circumstances these numbers hold true, but I am sure someone at Percona will soon prove or disprove the claim.
• Performance Schema tables for several aspects:
  • …

Many CMS-backed sites are built using MySQL and are launched on cloud infrastructure. In order to mitigate down-time due to regional outages, it is advisable to create a geo-distributed redundancy topology in both the app layer as well as within the database. GenieDB makes it very easy to set up multiple MySQL database servers around the world that are automatically kept synchronized as data is changed on any of the nodes. The database nodes are typically paired 1-on-1 with an app or web server. Some of our customers use the app servers to dish out their CMS backed sites. The database is kept synchronized, but the customers still need to find a way to keep the media content that they use to be available on all these app/web servers. Below is a simple setup that can be easily configured within a very small budget and provides high availability for both the data and the static content during an outage.

While some of our customers use …

Just because this topic came up more than once at MySQL Connect...

Apparently, some alumni have been awarded bonuses for certain pieces of work during their time at MySQL and I guess that there was an expectation from some that the same applied to the work I did. Now, I don't want anyone to get the impression that I am experiencing "sour grapes" over the past - I actually enjoyed much of my time

Proving this it is the show for in-depth technical information, MySql Connect finished with a bang. Six different two hour plus deep dive tutorials were offered and all had very good attendence. Many of the attendee were seasoned Oracle DBAs eager to gorge at this buffet of technical knowledge.

The crowd for Ligaya Trumele’s Getting Started
with MySql was packed with
Oracle DBAs who were amazed at the simplicity of the MySql architecture once they figured out the concept of multiple storage engines.

Luis Soares had a tutorial that was everything you ever wanted to know about 5.6 replication plus a look multi source that will be in 5.7. His discussion on how and when binlogs are written and the impact if that timing on replication was intense, detailed, and worth the price of the show itself.

Finishing a mentally overload day, I listened to Bernd Ocklin on MySql Cluster 7.3 and this product has …

This Wednesday in our next webinar I’ll share how to configure a better-performing MySQL 5.6 server. You’ll lean a practical approach to generating a sensible configuration file that sets what is needed and omits what is not.

Why dedicate an entire webinar to the new configuration settings within MySQL 5.6? Mainly because the default configuration files that come with MySQL 5.6 are not designed for high volume production use, and I’ve seen many MySQL incidents caused by poor configuration. Hopefully my advice will save you the headache of tweaking the variables within MySQL’s configuration files in order to work within your organization’s unique business environment.

And while I’ll be …

September 24, 2013 By Severalnines

For those of you who know Severalnines and maybe use some of our tools & products, you’ll know that we provide our users with a monthly summary of all the resources & tools that we’re publishing. Since this is publicly available material, we thought it’d be useful also for the broader open source database community.

In the past month, we’ve made the following resources & tools available: 

• Troubleshooting MySQL Cluster (free online MySQL Cluster Training)
• Zero Downtime Data Center Migration with Galera
• ClusterControl 1.2.3 Released
• High Availability OpenStack - Clustering the Database Backend
• NoSQL Battle of the East Coast - Benchmarking MongoDB vs TokuMX Cluster
• Full restore of a Galera Cluster from Backup

With …

For MySQL 5.1, 5.5 and 5.6 in the same repository, after repacking:

bzr: 269MB (217MB pack, 52MB indicies)

git: 177MB repo (152MB pack)

One thing I’ll say is that BZR is always more chatty over the network and is substantially slower than GIT in pulling a fresh copy.

Ok, so after all the things that have been announced @MySQLConnect, I’ve got to play around with them. First stop: space (no.. not ‘the final frontier’).

I need more space on my f/s to get installing. I was a bit of a scrooge when I created my Oracle Linux virtual machine, so now I’m paying the price.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_ol63uek01-LogVol01
                      7.1G  5.7G  1.1G  85% /

As I’m using Virtual Box, I’ve added a new SATA Controller vmdk of 10G, SATA Port 1 and then start it up.

fdisk -l

Will be able to identify the new & unused partition:

[root@ol63uek01 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
 I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
 Disk identifier: 0x00091104 …

Ok, so after all the things that have been announced @MySQLConnect, I’ve got to play around with them. First stop: space (no.. not ‘the final frontier’).

I need more space on my f/s to get installing. I was a bit of a scrooge when I created my Oracle Linux virtual machine, so now I’m paying the price.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_ol63uek01-LogVol01
                      7.1G  5.7G  1.1G  85% /

As I’m using Virtual Box, I’ve added a new SATA Controller vmdk of 10G, SATA Port 1 and then start it up.

fdisk -l

Will be able to identify the new & unused partition:

[root@ol63uek01 ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
 I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
 Disk identifier: 0x00091104 …

In this post, I present a few examples on “how to” for multisource replication using  the MySQL Labs Linux packages for masters and the slave. We also use replication performance schema tables to find out status of replication per channel. Multisource replication with GTIDs

1. Let us set up two masters and a slave.  The following are the important options to be set in the respective cnf files.       Masters:
     gtid-mode=on      
     enforce-gtid-consistency 
     log-slave-updates

            Slave:
            master_info_repository=TABLE            relay_log_info_repository=TABLE
            gtid-mode=on
    …