This week we continue our series on the MySQL Utilities. In this week's Ear Candy, we talk about a path problem installing MySQL Utilities on Ubuntu, and At the Movies is a preview of the SkySQL data suite.

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Events
DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time

Percona University is coming to Washington, DC on Thursday, September 12th.

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Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team at Oracle is excited to announce the availability of MySQL Workbench 6.0.7, a maintenance release for the new MySQL Workbench 6.0

MySQL Workbench 6.0 is the new major update of the GUI Development and Administration tool for MySQL. This version contains more than 30 new features and a redesigned, more modern UI. Over 200 enhancement requests and bugs filed by the community have been addressed since version 5.2.47. This release fixes over 20 bugs encountered since version 6.0.6

Improvements in MySQL Workbench 6.0:

• a new redesigned Home screen
• the SQL Editor and Server Administration UIs were merged into a single connection specific interface, allowing for quick access to administration features while simplifying the location of specific features
• improved model Synchronization, lets you compare and update your EER model or database with …

On 17th October I’ll be running a hands-on workshop on the various technologies available to provide High Availability using MySQL. The workshop is being held on 17th October (the day before the All Your Base conference) in Oxford (UK). The cost is £250 + VAT and you can register here.

This workshop provides an introduction to what High Availability (HA) is; what technology options are available to achieve it with MySQL and how to actually implement your own HA solutions. The session will be a mixture of presentations, demonstrations and (most importantly) hands-on tutorials.

We’ll start with an overview of High Availability – in general and in the context of MySQL and then a survey of the technologies to choose from:

• MySQL …

MySQL Connect is only slightly over 2 weeks away! Many sessions at the conference will offer you the chance to learn how to improve performance using the new features and enhancements of MySQL 5.6. You can see all sessions in our content catalog and pre-enroll in them with Schedule Builder. While the below list may not be exhaustive, performance tuning sessions include:

50 Tips for Boosting MySQL Performance - Arnaud Adant, Oracle
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Well.. just wanted to share the more technical details I went into when preparing the “A MySQL Odyssey: A Blackhole crossover” for the OpenSUSE Conference in Thessaloniki, July 2013. There’s a youtube version as well, of the actual session, on the opensuse channel. http://youtu.be/Nt2w1UvKEp0. (Audio kicks in at minute 6:40 so enjoy my miming act).

Here goes:

5.6 Enterprise Edition -> edelivery.oracle.com
 Win:    mysql-5.6.11-MySQL Installer 5.6.11.0 Package-V38226-01.zip
 Linux:  mysql-5.6.11 TAR for Generic Linux (glibc2.5) x86 (32bit)-V38228-01.zip

 Windows         192.168.56.101
 Oracle Linux    192.168.56.102    …

Well.. just wanted to share the more technical details I went into when preparing the "A MySQL Odyssey: A Blackhole crossover" for the OpenSUSE Conference in Thessaloniki, July 2013. There's a youtube version as well, of the actual session, on the opensuse channel. http://youtu.be/Nt2w1UvKEp0. (Audio kicks in at minute 6:40 so enjoy my miming act).

Here goes:

5.6 Enterprise Edition ->

Im a Pacemaker fanboy for sure.If you use the OCF please don't take the default value for the mysqld binary.The settingOCF_RESKEY_binary_default="/usr/bin/safe_mysqld"is wrong. Why?As it interfere with the acounting pacemaker is already doing. Take the path to your mysqld binary.
EnjoyErkan

Check out the video! Hey there everybody!

Coming up this Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT) take part in #DBHangOps to discuss:

• Data Dictionary Corruption
  • What is it?
  • How does it happen?
  • How did you fix it?
  • What about FRM file corruption?
• MySQL Utilities (requested by Sheeri Cabral!)
  • mysqlfrm -- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysqlfrm.html
    • Read about it at Chuck Bell's blog http://drcharlesbell.blogspot.com/2013/04/mysql-utilities-new-frm-reader-utility.html
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So you’ve done all the hard work, now what?

We need to test that everything is working. Ie:

• That the Management Daemon can see the NDB instances.
• That the NDB instances are running on the two cluster nodes
• The MySQL client can connect and talk to the NDB presented tables

start the MySQL client

and execute the following command to show available NDB nodes:

show global status like 'ndb_number_of%';

mysql -uroot -p[password you set when first running mysql]

root@cgepi1:/var/lib/mysql-cluster# mysql -uroot -phelpdesk
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2
Server version: 5.5.25a-ndb-7.3.0-log Source distribution
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