In the 1990s I spent a few years studying requirements on databases used in 3G telecom networks. The main requirement was centered around three keywords, Latency, Throughput and Availability. In this blog post I will focus on Availability.

If a telecom database is down it means that no phone calls can be made, internet connections will not work and your app on your smartphone will cease to work. So more or less impacting each and everyone's life immediately.

The same requirements on databases now also start to appear in AI applications such as online Fraud detection, self-driving cars, smartphone apps.

Availability is measured in percent and for telecom databases the requirement is to reach 99.9999% availability. One often calls this Class 6 availability where 6 is the number of nines in the availability percentage.

Almost every database …

I found myself explaining the nuances of INSERT statements and whether you should use named or positional notation. While the class was on Zoom, I could imagine the blank stares in the silence of my headphones. Then, I had to remind them about mandatory (NOT NULL constrained) and optional (nullable) columns in tables and how an INSERT statement requires an explicit NULL value for optional columns when the INSERT statement isn’t inserting a value into that column.

Then, I asked if somebody could qualify the different types of INSERT statements; and what would happen if a table with a first_name and last_name column order evolves when a new DBA decides to restructure the table and uses a last_name and first_name column order in the new table structure. Only a couple of the students recalled using a column-list …

Moodle is the world’s most popular learning management system. Moodle is Open Source and of course it’s compatible with the most popular Open Source Database : MySQL !

I’ve already posted an article on how to install Moodle on OCI before we released MySQL Database Service. In this article we will see how to deploy Moodle very easily in OCI and using MDS.

Once again we will use the easiest way to deploy an complete architecture on OCI: Resource Manager.

We will then use a stack I’ve created that is available on GitHub This stack includes Terraform code allowing to deploy different architectures that we can use for Moodle. I’ve tried to cover the main possible architecture directly in the stack. …

About a month ago, I published how you can connect to MySQL with a small form. One suggestion, or lets promote it to a request, from that post was: “Nice, but how do you create a reusable library for the MySQL Connection Dialog box?”

That was a good question but I couldn’t get back until now to write a new blog post. This reusable MySQL connection dialog lets you remove MySQL connection data from the command-line history. This post also shows you how to create and test a Powershell Module.

The first step to create a module requires that you set the proper %PSModulePath% environment variable. If you fail to do that, you can put it into a default PowerShell module location but that’s not too effective for testing. You launch the System Properties dialog and click the Environment …

Back in December 2018, when we announced the general availability of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0, we also announced that the TokuDB Storage Engine has been marked as “deprecated” in this release, recommending to use the MyRocks Storage Engine as an alternative. We believe that MyRocks provides similar benefits for the majority of workloads and is better optimized for modern hardware.

Since then, we have continued maintaining the storage engine in the 8.0 release, e.g. by incorporating bug fixes. However, the ongoing amount of …

To see what queries are sent to MySQL, it’s useful to enable query logging and piping the output to a file or even a table to inspect later. In this [...]

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Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.23-14 was released last week and I wanted to take a minute to call out some of the interesting new features that we have introduced in this release. These are included in addition to the features and improvements in MySQL 8.0.23 that were introduced by the Oracle MySQL team (and to which Percona also contributed).

Hashicorp Vault Plugin Support for KV Secrets Engine – Version 2 (PS-5364)

As of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.23-14, the Hashicorp Vault plugin can be configured to specifically use either V1 or V2 Secrets Engine API or it can be configured to probe and auto-detect the best version to use.

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In our last blog post about the Automatic Asynchronous Replication Connection Failover feature which was released in MySQL 8.0.22, we showed you its usage and benefits. We now present here additional changes we added in MySQL 8.0.23 to further enhance this feature by making the receiver aware of the source’s group membership changes.…

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This article provides a complete overview of how to create a new user account in MySQL and grant different types of privileges on a MySQL database. Learn the basics of user account management and find hints. Introduction First, let’s figure out why we need users and privileges. When you install MySQL Server on your system […]

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 As introduced in a previous blog RonDB enables us to easily execute benchmarks on RonDB using the Sysbench benchmark.

In this blog I will present some results where the RonDB cluster had 2 data nodes, each using a r5.4xlarge VM in AWS that has 16 VCPUs and 128 GB memory. The Sysbench test uses SQL to access RonDB.

In this particular test case we wanted to test the Key-Lookup performance using SQL. Key-Lookup performance is essential in the RonDB use case as an online Feature Store in Hopsworks.

In this case we use the …