The release today of the MySQL for Database Administrators Training on Demand means you can now benefit from the MySQL for Database Administrators course lecture and lab exercises delivered by a top instructor from your own desk. With this On Demand offering you get all the classroom content online, available 24/7 and you can follow the course at your own pace.

In this cornerstone course of the MySQL Curriculum, you will learn how to secure users privileges, set resource limitations, access controls and describe backup and recovery basics. Students will also learn how to create and use stored procedures, triggers, views and more.

The Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) just published an interview with me in their journal. It’s titled “A Whole New World of MySQL”. You can read it in the full journal (PDF), or on Iggy Fernandez’s blog. The full journal is well worth a read; there’s a lot of good information.

Thanks to Iggy for such a thought-provoking interview, and for inviting me to participate!

Further Reading:

• Wishing I could be at ODTUG
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New feature provides significantly faster insight and root cause analysis

SAN JOSE, Calif., February, 15, 2012 – Monitis, the leading cloud and web application monitoring software provider, today announces that it has added comprehensive MySQL database monitoring to its award-winning Application Performance Management & Monitoring platform. The robust Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) tool enables users to gain significantly faster insight when conducting root cause analysis.

The MySQL monitoring feature includes 246 monitoring variables and more than 21 different metrics to provide one of the easiest to use, yet comprehensive database monitoring tools available. It was first introduced into the free Monitor.Us platform back in June last year and has seen the code battle hardened by many hundred free users over the last 8 months.

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Tuesday, 2/21/12 at 14:00 GMT/15:00 CET/9:00 ESTHigh availability is about more than making sure that apps can get to your data even if there is a failure.How about when you are upgrading your database schema? What if you need to add memory to a database server or reconfigure/restart MySQL? If your apps want to read data from a MySQL slave, how can you be sure they are not reading stale data

The Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) just published an interview with me in their journal. It’s titled “A Whole New World of MySQL”. You can read it in the full journal (PDF), or on Iggy Fernandez’s blog. The full journal is well worth a read; there’s a lot of good information. Thanks to Iggy for such a thought-provoking interview, and for inviting me to participate!

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for

i can't help to think of austin powers when seeing one billion queries per minute

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Default MySQL security sucks. There is no super user privilege protection, or tight filesystem security. What are the essentials for any initial MySQL installation? What is the minimum an Oracle DBA should understand and undertake for a neglected MySQL system? The MySQL privilege system provides several levels of data protection when implemented correctly, however this is rarely used. The most common user permission implementation creates several security and auditing risks? What are your MySQL user permissions, and how can developers exploit them? There are ways to secure communications within a MySQL topology, approaches to managing exposed public facing data collection via the BLACKHOLE storage engine, …

Today at the RMOUG Training Days 2012 event I gave an introduction presentation on MySQL Security Essentials covering the following topics:

• MySQL Security defaults
• MySQL Security Improvements
• OS Security
• User Privileges
• Data Integrity
• Installation Practices
• Auditing Options
• Better Security
• Further References

Download slides for MySQL Security Essentials.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get expert advice on your SQL queries to find problems in them, the same way that programmers can use lint-check tools to warn about bugs in their C?

if ( execute = 1 ) {
   launch_missile();
}

Such a simple mistake, but it’s the kind of thing that James Bond movies are made of, isn’t it? Well, a lot of SQL queries have similar bugs, and thanks to Miguel Trias, now there’s a tool to help you find them. This is the second addition to our online suite of tools for MySQL users. You paste a query, it tells you what’s wrong with it. Simple as that.

Find the bug in this query:

select * from t1
   left join t2 using(id)
where t2.created_date < 2012-02-15;

Do you see it? Congratulations! I've analyzed that query with the tool, and shared the results with you. …