For me, the biggest news in the last 24 hours so far has been:

1. SkySQL merges with Monty Program, developers of MariaDB. This of course affects me directly and leads to a change in affiliation in a few months.
2. TokuDB goes opensource. I think this is really big news. Beyond just the fact that it can now be a storage engine in the main MariaDB tree, I love the work they’re doing to extend it to be an engine for MongoDB as well.
3. …

Introduction
  For a long time there was a Bug#6295 in implementation of BEFORE triggers related to handling of NOT NULL column. The problem was that if a column is declared as NOT NULL, it wasn't possible to do INSERT NULL (or UPDATE to NULL) even though there was associated trigger, setting NOT-NULL value.
For example:

• There is the table 't1' with a NOT NULL column 'c1'
• The table has BEFORE INSERT trigger which sets the 'c1' column to NOT NULL value (SET NEW.c1 = 1)
• User executes the SQL statement INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(NULL) that fails with the following error:     ERROR 1048 (23000): Column 'c1' cannot be null
• The user will get the same error if there is a BEFORE UPDATE trigger that sets the 'c1' column to NOT NULL and  the …

SkySQL has signed a merger agreement with Monty Program Ab, creators of the popular MariaDB database. Read more about it, as it features important tidbits from Patrik Sallner (CEO, SkySQL Ab), Simon Phipps (CEO, MariaDB Foundation), and Michael “Monty” Widenius (CTO, MariaDB Foundation).

A key takeaway is that SkySQL will work alongside & collaborate closely with the MariaDB Foundation, plus continue to invest in the development of the MariaDB server.

SkySQL today announced that it has signed a merger agreement with Monty Program Ab, creators of the fastest growing open source database technology: MariaDB.  This merger reunites key members of the original MySQL AB developer and services teams. Their aim is to develop MariaDB into a truly interoperable, NewSQL open source database in collaboration with its customers, partners and the community. The company also pledges to further evolve its offering for users of the MySQL database.

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SkySQL today announced that it has signed a merger agreement with Monty Program Ab, creators of the fastest growing open source database technology: MariaDB.  This merger reunites key members of the original MySQL AB developer and services teams. Their aim is to develop MariaDB into a truly interoperable, NewSQL open source database in collaboration with its customers, partners and the community. The company also pledges to further evolve its offering for users of the MySQL database.

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Hi there !

This is the final part of using openconnect  - You can check the older ones below:

http://www.heitorlessa.com/connecting-your-linux-to-a-cisco-anyconnect-ssl-part-1/

http://www.heitorlessa.com/connecting-your-linux-to-a-cisco-anyconnect-ssl-part-2/

As mentioned previously, we will be covering here:

• How to create a script to monitor such VPN using ICMP, and restart that VPN if it is down
  

I would say, this is very straight forward and does not require much knowledge, so we are going to follow the same procedure as part 2 – Show the script in parts and then a …

I had the chance to work on an interesting case last week, and I thought I’d share what I think is a little known goodie from Percona Toolkit for MySQL called pt-query-digest.

One customer was suffering from periods of high load on their database server, leading to degraded application performance, and sometimes even short moments of downtime. As usual with these cases, we set up pt-stalk to trigger a capture if Threads_running went above a known ‘good’ value for this workload, so we would have lots of diagnostics information to review even if we couldn’t be logged in to the server at the time the problem happened.

As I began reviewing …

One of the first things we do when preparing a client’s infrastructure for Galera deployment is see whether their schema is suitable.

• Avoiding quirks and edge cases, we can say that Galera simply requires all tables to be InnoDB and also have a PRIMARY KEY (obviously having a PK in InnoDB is important anyway, for InnoDB-internal reasons).
• We want to know about FULLTEXT indexes. With recent InnoDB versions also supporting FULLTEXT we need to check not just whether a table has such an index, but actually which engine it is.
• Spatial indexes. While both InnoDB and MyISAM can deal with spatial datatypes (POINT, GEOMETRY, etc), only MyISAM has the spatial indexes.

Naturally, checking a schema in the server is more effective than going through other sources and possibly missing bits. On the downside, the only viable way to get this info out of MariaDB is INFORMATION_SCHEMA, but because of the way …

We’re ironing out a kink that’s preventing Planet MySQL from aggregating VividCortex’s blog feed, so while that’s in progress, I’ll post a quick note on what we’re up to at VividCortex, for the Planet MySQL readers. VividCortex is a monitoring and analysis product for MySQL, provided as Software-As-A-Service, with agents that run in your systems and report back to our APIs. The agents are super-efficient and non-obtrusive (you’ve probably noticed my posts about Go recently).

Hey you!

As said in the part 1 of this article, I will be covering here:

• How to create a openconnect init script

So, concerning the init script I will be posting parts of the script first, and then will put a link for download at the end.

First of all, we need the shebang (#!/bin/bash) and then global variables that will be used along the script:

# Path variables
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

# VPN Variables
IFACE="sslvpn"
VPN_USER="vpn_user"
VPN_HOST="sslvpn.yourdomain.com"
VPN_PASS="vpn_password"
PID="/var/run/openconnect.pid"
TEMP_LOG="/tmp/status.txt"
INFO="Usage: $(basename "$0") (start|stop|status|restart)"

You can also define most of these options in a …