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

SCALE16x is over. Percona had a large showing — both Peter Zaitsev & myself had talks, and the booth in the expo hall saw Rick Golba, Marc Sherwood, and Dave Avery also pop by. The lead scanner suggests we had several hundred conversations — read Dave Avery’s summary. My talk went well, though during Q&A the number of questions I got about MariaDB Server was quite interesting (considering it wasn’t part of my talk!). It is clear people are concerned about compatibility (because I spent close to 45 minutes after my talk answering Q&A outside too).

I got to catch up with …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how you can verify query performance using ProxySQL.

In the previous blog post, I showed you how many information can you get from the “stats.stats_mysql_query_digest” table in ProxySQL. I also mentioned you could even collect and graph these metrics. I will show you this is not just theory, it is possible.

These graphs could be very useful to understand the impact of the changes what you made on the query count or execution time.

I used our all-time favorite benchmark tool called Sysbench. I was running the following query:

UPDATE sbtest1 SET c=? WHERE k=?

There was no index on “k” when I started the test. During the test, I …

This is our second blog in the ProxySQL Series ( Blog I MySQL Replication Read-write Split up ). Will cover how to integrate ProxySQL with MHA to handle failover of Database servers.

We already have Master – Slave replication setup behind ProxySQL from previous blog [ProxySQL On MySQL Replication]

For this setup we have added one more node for MHA Manager , Which will keep eye on Master and Slave status.

• node5 (172.17.0.5) , MHA Manager

ProxySQL can be greatly configured with MHA for …

In this blog post, I’ll be looking at a new tool Proxytop for managing MySQL topologies using ProxySQL. Proxytop is a self-contained, real-time monitoring tool for ProxySQL. As some of you already know ProxySQL is a popular open source, high performance and protocol-aware proxy server for MySQL and its forks (Percona and MariaDB).

My lab uses MySQL and ProxySQL on Docker containers provided by Nick Vyzas. This lab also uses Alexey Kopytov’s Sysbench utility to perform benchmarking against ProxySQL.

Pre-requisites:

• Install Proxytop
• Install …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.21-29.26 (PXC) on March 2, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.21-29.26 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.21
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.7.21
• Galera Replication library 3.23

Starting from now, Percona XtraDB Cluster issue …

In this blog post, we’ll checkout Percona Monitoring and Management vs. gnuplot when it comes to creating great metrics graphs. gnuplot is great, but PMM might provide graphs that are easier to read.

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is our free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL®, MariaDB® and MongoDB® performance, and is based on Grafana and Prometheus. It collects many kinds of metrics: OS metrics, MySQL metrics or MongoDB metrics. But there are times where you just ran a benchmark or collected your specific metrics and you want to visualize them.

For a long time, I used gnuplot for that (and I still like it). But when I was working on a recent blog post, one of my colleagues wrote me: …

In this blog post,  I’ll look at how to catch slow and frequent queries with ProxySQL.

More and more people are using ProxySQL because it is a great tool and it can help DBAs a lot. But many people do not realize that it is more powerful than it looks. It has many features and possibilities. I am going to show you one of my favorite “tricks” / use cases.

There are plenty of blog posts explaining how ProxySQL works. I am not going to that again. Instead, let’s jump straight to the point. There is a table in ProxySQL called “stats.stats_mysql_query_digest”. It is one of my favorite tables because it basically records all the queries that were running against ProxySQL. Without collecting any queries on the MySQL server, I can find …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.39-26.25 (PXC) on February 26, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.39-26.25 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.39
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.6.39
• Galera Replication library 3.23

Starting from this release, Percona XtraDB …

At Mydbops we always thrive to provide the best MySQL Solutions. We are exploring the modern SQL load balancers. We have planned to write a series of blog on ProxySQL.

The first blog in this series is  how to set up ProxySQL for MySQL Replication Topology including Read / Write Split and some background over ProxySQL.

What is ProxySQL ?

• ProxySQL is a open-source high-performance SQL aware proxy. It runs as a daemon watched by a monitoring process.
• ProxySQL seats between application and db servers.
• The daemon accepts incoming traffic from MySQL clients and forwards it to backend MySQL servers.

A few most commonly used features are : …

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

In case you missed last week’s column, don’t forget to read the fairly lengthy FOSDEM MySQL & Friends DevRoom summary.

From a Percona Live Santa Clara 2018 standpoint, beyond the tutorials getting picked and scheduled, the talks have also been picked and scheduled (so you were very likely getting acceptance emails from the Hubb.me system by Tuesday). The rejections have not gone out yet but will follow soon. I expect the schedule to go live either today (end of week) or early next week. Cheapest tickets end March 4, so don’t …