Amazon Web Services (AWS) very recently(March 02, 2022) announced the GA of its new RDS feature “Readable standby with Multi-AZ deployments” for MySQL. Yes !! you heard it right you can now use the standby instances created with Multi-AZ deployments for failover as well as for Read-scaling starting with version 8.0.26 and later for MySQL in RDS

Launching a MultiAZ Cluster

Now let us see how to launch this readable-Multi AZ cluster?

Region Availability: As this is a new feature now it is currently limited to the regions US-EAST-1 (N.Virginia), US-WEST-1 (Oregon), and EU-WEST-1 (Ireland), this list would be extended progressively

VPC requirement:

Before launching the instance, you should have SUBNET created for 3 AZ(Availability Zone) within the VPC since the cluster instances would be spawn across 3AZ by default

Hereunder the “Engine Option” …

Let’s start with some info about how MySQL Document Store handles JSON documents.

Document Store and CRUD

We know that MySQL 8.0 Document Store handles JSON documents with CRUD operations. We can add, delete and modify those documents very easily:

 JS >db.mycollection.find()
{
    "_id": "0000624d3e890000000000000001",
    "name": "my_iot1",
    "type": "sensor",
    "capabilities": "{'temperature':'true','humidity':'true'}"
}
{
    "_id": "0000624d3e890000000000000002",
    "name": "my_iot2",
    "type": "sensor",
    "capabilities": "{'temperature':'true'}"
}
2 documents in set (0.0007 sec)

To modify a document, the modify method can be used in different ways:

As illustrate above, we have:

• set()
• …

Vitess supports managed, non-blocking schema migrations based on VReplication, aptly named vitess migrations. Vitess migrations are powerful, revertible, and failure agnostic. They take an asynchronous approach, which is more lightweight on the database server. The asynchronous approach comes with an implementation challenge: how to cut-over with minimal impact to the user/app and risk free of data loss. In this post we take a deep dive into the cut-over logic used in vitess migrations.

MySQL Database Service on OCI is all over the tech news with the latest HeatWave ML announcement [1][2][3][4][5].

This article explains how to perform a live migration of your Azure/MySQL to OCI/MySQL.

As Azure allows public connections directly to the database, this is what …

Do you wonder if MySQL tells you the truth about writes to tables that have foreign key constraints? The situation is complex, and getting visibility on what is really happening can be a problem.

I found this issue intriguing and decided to share and highlight some examples.

Query Plan

Let us take this example table:

CREATE TABLE `product` (
  `category` int NOT NULL,
  `id` int NOT NULL,
  `price` decimal(10,0) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`category`,`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

We want to know how costly an example UPDATE against this table will be:

mysql > EXPLAIN update product set id=id+1 where id=65032158 and category=3741760\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: UPDATE
        table: product
   partitions: NULL
         type: range
possible_keys: PRIMARY
          key: PRIMARY
      key_len: 8
          ref: const,const
         rows: 1 …

It’s no secret that text or string data are one of the most common datatypes you will process. At times, only a specific portion of a string may be needed and this is the perfect use case for the SUBSTRING() character function…

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Recently, I published an article over on the OpenLampTech Substack publication page, MySQL SUBSTRING() Function – With Examples, where I cover syntax and examples of the function.

…

Ecopaynet's customer success story describes why they chose MySQL HeatWave over AWS to shorten their time to market and benefit from a better price-performance.

For a future article, I was again looking into the possibility of using sysbench to generate data and load on a MySQL database. However, I needed an SSL connection which only version 1.1.0 supports (see issue 308).

Alexey didn’t create a branch and/or release for the version 1.1.0. The code is the master branch.

As you know, I like to install software using the Operating System’s packaging and so I created a rpm for sysbench 1.1.0.

If you are also interested to use this version, here are the rpms for some popular OS and architecture (including Arm):

sysbench-1.1.0-1.fc35.x86_64 …

This 20th issue of the OpenLampTech newsletter marks 5 continuous months of weekly publishing. Thank you, the readers, for making it possible and continuing to read these newsletters. Once again, this week’s issue has plenty of PHP/MySQL content so enjoy the newsletter!

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Saturday, I posted how to use Microsoft ODBC DSN to connect to MySQL. Somebody didn’t like the fact that the PowerShell program failed to write a *.csv file to disk because the program used the Write-Host command to write to the content of the query to the console.

I thought that approach was a better as an example. However, it appears that it wasn’t because not everybody knows simple redirection. The original program can transfer the console output to a file, like:

powershell .\MySQLODBC.ps1 > output.csv

So, the first thing you need to do is add a parameter list, like:

param (
  [Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$fileName
)

Anyway, it’s trivial to demonstrate how to modify the PowerShell program to write to a disk. You should also create a virtual PowerShell drive before writing the file. That’s because you can change the physical directory anytime you want with minimal changes to rest of …