Managing SSL certificates for MySQL can be somewhat of a pain, especially when setting it up on multiple machines.

I looked around on the web, and didn’t really run into any mentions of how to do this for multiple machines, so I dug into it a bit more.

If you’ve created the certificates before, you’ll know you get prompted for various bits of information during a couple of the steps (country, state, email).

However, this can be by-passed by using the -batch option with the openssl command.

So, to set this up for multiple servers, just loop through the following 5 commands for your servers:

cd C:\mysql\certs
openssl genrsa 2048 > ca-key.pem
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -days 3600 -batch -key ca-key.pem > ca-cert.pem
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -days 3600 -batch -nodes -keyout server-key.pem >
        server-req.pem
openssl x509 -req -in server-req.pem -days 3600 -CA ca-cert.pem
        -CAkey …

The program for this year's MySQL conference is now published.

As regular readers will remember, I served on the program committee this year and was one of those who appealed for people to send in great proposals. I would now like to thank all of you that sent in proposals. On my quick count we had over 250 proposals, and if I look at my own ratings I'd say about 180 of them were really good, conference worthy talks (and this already excludes some pretty good talks). A related piece of trivia was that this might have been the first year ever that the deadline for the Call for Proposals wasn't extended, which possibly took some of you by surprise. We simply got so many good talks by the deadline, that there wasn't any need to. …

The Oracle User Group Leaders Summit is over and it appears that Oracle has some of the MySQL ACE Members (George, Sheeri, Ronald) backed up against the wall! 
It was great to get the user groups together and we need more MySQL User Groups to attend next year! You can follow IOUC on twitter @IOUC_Conference & http://www.iouc.org/

This week I have been at the IOUC User Group Leader's Conference, and I have met a ton of great folks who are user group leaders and made some great contacts for future speaking engagement. Follow this space to learn about calls for papers for international conferences! First up is the call for papers for the OUG Harmony conference.

The OUG is the Oracle Users Group for Finland and Latvia, in conjunction with Estonia and Russia. The Finland conference is specifically looking for MySQL content, and is May 30-31st in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Talks can be in Finnish or English, and they're looking for good basic MySQL information.

I spoke today at the conference about the MySQL community - who it is, how it's grown, and what the challenges are as we try …

Day three of the User Group Leadership Summit is here and MySQL has continued to have a valid presence from the community as well as the Oracle Team.

George Trujillo introduced MySQL for the Oracle DBA to a very attentive audience.
Ronald Bradford gave a great presentation on why people should use MySQL.
Sheeri Cabral talked on the MySQL Community and user groups. Members of Oracle user groups showed great interest in the MySQL User groups.


So how can I summarize the summit in one line:
Oracle DBA user group members are interested in MySQL and the community!

Searching for the Holly GrailFor months I have been writing and rewriting an blog post called “The Full Monty”. It’s a kind of how to build complete production system from scratch. I’m still not done. Maybe I’m fullish thinking I can build a one type fits all database server. But that’s not the problem. I’ve found myself chasing the Holly Grail of HA and replication.I’ve build many virtual clusters with all the HA / replication package I could find. I’ve tried DRBD, Heartbeat,  Multi Master Management (MMM), Tungsten, …

I am pleased to announce the schedule for Percona Live: MySQL Conference And Expo 2012 is now published. This is truly great selection of talks with something for MySQL Developers, DBAs, Managers, people just starting to use MySQL as well as looking for advanced topics. We have talks about running MySQL on extremely large scale in a Web as well as running MySQL In the Enterprise Environments. Some speakers have spent over decade pushing MySQL to its limits, others have in depth experience working on MySQL Code.

We have many talks which are covering Oracle MySQL, and forks such as MariaDB, Drizzle and …

MySQL, like a lot of other software, has many knobs you can tweak. Most of these knobs may affect behaviour, but more importantly most affect the memory usage of the server, so getting these settings right is very important.

Most of MySQL’s memory is really used just as a cache, in one form or another, information that otherwise is on disk. So ensuring you have as large a cache as possible is important. However, making these memory sizes too large will trigger the server to start swapping and possibly can cause it to crash or cause the kernel to kill the process when it runs out of memory.  So that’s something we want to avoid.

Certain settings affect memory allocation on a per connection/thread basis, being bounded by thread_cache_size and max_connections.  If you configure for the worst behaviour (max_connections) you may end up not actually using all the memory you have available, memory which normally could be …