If you are using Percona Replication Manager (PRM) with RHEL/CentOS prior to 6.4, upgrading your distribution to 6.4 may break your cluster. In this post I will explain you how to fix your cluster in case it breaks after a distribution upgrade that implies an update of pacemaker from 1.1.7 to 1.18. You can also follow the official documentation here.

The version of Pacemaker (always considered as Technology Preview by RedHat) provided with 6.4 is 1.1.8-x which is not 100% compatible with 1.1.7-x see this report.

So if you want to upgrade, you cannot apply any rolling upgrade process. So like for Pacemaker 0.6.x to 1.0.x, you need again to update all nodes as once. As notified in …

I thought I would take the new subquery optimizations in MySQL 5.6 for a spin today, using the world sample database provided by MySQL for certification and training.

Typical IN subquery

This is a very typical query developers run, which historically has performed very poorly on MySQL:

mysql5.5.31 > EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM City WHERE CountryCode IN
 (SELECT code FROM Country WHERE name = 'United States');
*************************** 1. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: PRIMARY
        table: City
         type: ALL
possible_keys: NULL
          key: NULL
      key_len: NULL
          ref: NULL
         rows: 3984
        Extra: Using where
*************************** 2. row ***************************
           id: 2
  select_type: DEPENDENT SUBQUERY
        table: Country
         type: unique_subquery
possible_keys: PRIMARY …

Thank you for all of you who dropped by the MySQL booth at Drupalcon to say ‘Thank you’ for MySQL. At every show there are several folks who do this but at Drupalcon it seemed like half the 3,000 attending dropped by to say ‘thanks’, grab MySQL stickers, OurSQL Poscasts disks, and talk about MySQL 5.6. I’ll see all y’all next year in Austin.

Speaking of Austin, the Texaslinuxfest.org is this weekend. I will be talking Saturday in Track D at 11:25 on the Proper Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database.

And the FREE Southeast Linux Fest is June 7-9 in Charlotte. This year featuring a ‘Zero to DBA’ track to get all …

Two months ago I posted a performance comparison running Sysbench on MongoDB versus MongoDB with Fractal Tree Indexes v0.0.2. The benchmark showed a 133% improvement in throughput. Nice, but our engineering team had an effort on our road-map for lock refinement that we believed would really boost our performance, which is now available in v0.1.0. The benchmark application itself is unchanged and available on GitHub.

For anyone curious about Sysbench itself, the details are available from the prior blog. The only change for this run was hardware. Our Sun x4150 server recently began rebooting itself at random times, so it has been replaced with a newer HP server. Another change is …

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Wheezy

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Wheezy server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Selecting the most appropriate solution for a MySQL HA infrastructure is as much a business and philosophical decision as it is a technical one, but often the choice is made without adequately considering all three perspectives.  When too much attention is paid to one of these aspects at the cost of the others, the resulting system may be over-engineered, poorly-performing, and/or various other flavors of suboptimal.

On Wednesday, June 5, at 10 a.m. PDT (1700 UTC), I will be presenting a webinar entitled, Choosing a MySQL HA Solution, in which we’ll explore the topic of MySQL HA from each of these perspectives.  The goal will be to motivate your thinking about HA in a holistic fashion and help …

Playing around with Percona Replication Manager, and being new to Pacemaker, some errors were somewhat cryptic.

May 26 09:53:39 [2181] ha01.localdomain    pengine:   notice: unpack_rsc_op:    Preventing p_mysql from re-starting on ha02.localdomain: operation monitor failed 'not installed' (rc=5)
May 26 09:53:39 [2181] ha01.localdomain    pengine:   notice: unpack_rsc_op:    Preventing op from re-starting on ha02.localdomain: operation monitor failed 'not installed' (rc=5)

First, it says here that I have ‘operation monitor failed’ on node ha02.localdomain. This error simply means ‘I cannot run the operation monitor because it is not installed’. Where does this operation supposed to come from, from the resource agent. Turns out, I did not have the mysql resource agent in place under /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/percona.

May 27 23:24:29 [2013] ha01.localdomain crm_resource:    error: unpack_rsc_op:  Preventing reader_vip_2 from …

I picked up a copy of SQL Performance Explained last week, after having been a long time fan of Markus’ site Use The Index, Luke!.

What I love the most about use-the-index-luke, is the 3-minute-test. Seriously - try taking it!

Anyway, here is what I have to say about the book:

• Quality : The book is not published by a major publisher, so I was not sure if I should expect a bound stack of photocopies. To my delight, it is the same quality as any other book, and clearly has a copy editor. I didn’t notice any gramatical or copy errors.

• Length : It is a short book at 164 pages + 28 pages of appendixes. I …

The ALTER TABLE statement syntax is explained in the manual at:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/alter-table.html

To put it simply, there are two ways you can alter the table to use a new character set.

1. ALTER TABLE tablename DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8;

This will alter the table to use the new character set as the default, but as a safety mechanism, it will only change the table definition for the default character set. That is, existing character fields will have the old character set per column. For example:

mysql> create table mybig5 (id int not null auto_increment primary key,      
    -> subject varchar(100) ) engine=innodb default charset big5;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.81 sec)

mysql> show create table …

Anders posted a blog post about adding a new JSON data type to MariaDB. This made me remember my very first MySQL User conference, well, that and the next couple conferences actually. Why? Because at every conference (for awhile) I remember Brian Aker getting everybody into a room to discuss how to add a data type to MySQL. It was considered pretty much the quintessential example of how to start developing for MySQL because it touches a lot of the basic guts of the server.

The example that Brian always gave was a "hex" data type, so that you can store MD5 numbers using 128 bits of storage instead of 256. A human readable MD5 is a 256 bit string (32 characters) representing 128 bits of actual data. So storing MD5 values in the database (a very common thing) requires twice as much space as it should.

Now, …