I ranted about hiring interviews, and the canned questions that people have to answer. One of the interviews we do is a systems design interview, where we want to see how (senior) people use components and patterns to design a system for reliability and scale-out.

A sample question (based on a Twitter thread in German):

It is 2010, and the company has a database structure where a fixed number front end machines form a cell. Reads and writes are already split: Writes go to the primary of a replication tree, and are being replicated to the read instance of the database in each cell. Reads go to the database instance that is a fixed part of the cell.

Read and write handles are split in the application. Clients write to a primary MySQL database, which then replicates to a database instance that is fixed part of a cell. Clients from a …

As a Technical Account Manager at Percona, I get to work with many of our largest clients. While the industry verticals vary, one main core challenge generally remains the same – what do I do with all this data? Dealing with massive data sets in MySQL isn’t a new challenge, but the best approach still isn’t trivial. Each application is obviously different, but I wanted to discuss some of the main best practices around dealing with lakes of data.

Keep MySQL Instances Small

First and foremost, the architecture needs to be designed to keep each MySQL instance relatively small. A very common question I get from teams new to working with MySQL is: “So what is the largest instance size MySQL supports?”. My answer goes back to my time in consulting: “It depends”. Can my MySQL instance support a 20TB dataset? Maybe, but it depends on the workload pattern. Should I store 20TB of data in a single MySQL instance? In most cases, …

MySQL introduced the MySQL “Upgrade Checker” initially to support upgrades from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 series. However, the continuous development initiative in the MySQL 8.0 release series has continued this tools usefulness, as it can also report on continuous delivered features throughout the MySQL 8.0 release series. Additionally, “Yes”, bug fixes are always part of that development release… Read More »

MySQL 8 comes with a lot of good features, and recently I explored its password management systems. I wanted to put together a series of blogs about it, and this is the first part. In this post, I am going to explain the following topics in detail.

• Password Reuse Policy
• Random Password Generation

Password Reuse Policy

MySQL has implemented restrictions on reusing passwords. Restriction can be established in two ways:

• Number of password changes
• Time elapsed

Number of Password Changes

From the MySQL documents:

If an account is restricted on the basis of number of password changes, a new password cannot be chosen from a specified number of the most recent passwords.

To test this, in my local environment I have created the user with “number of password changes = 2”.

mysql> create user …

In some applications, data may never change. Yet, in others, data changes numerous times in its lifecycle. In SQL the UPDATE command changes existing rows of data. CodeIgniter 4 Models have 2 methods available for update operations: update() and save(). Continue reading and learn more about update()…

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CodeIgniter 4 CRUD Series with MySQL

This post is a re-share of an article I originally published on my Medium account and is part 3 in the CodeIgniter 4 CRUD with MySQL series. Be sure and …

Primary Key design is an important thing for InnoDB performance, and choosing a poor PK definition will have an impact on performance and also write propagation in databases. When this comes to Aurora, this impact is even worse than you may notice.

In short, we consider a poor definition of a Primary Key in InnoDB as “anything but quasi sequential values”, which may cause very random access to data and thus increase the IO dependency.

In this post, I’ll try to demonstrate the potential impact of the primary key design when running on Aurora, and how a bad design can lead to a 15x write latency penalty (or more).

The Analysis

Recently I worked on a case where a customer was having issues with scaling writes in Aurora MySQL. While this is a known limitation in Aurora considering how the distributed storage layer syncs out data among all nodes of the cluster, we observed additional latency occurring when more …

The new MyDumper 0.11.1 version, which includes many new features and bug fixes, is now available.  You can download the code from here.

For this release, there are three main changes: 1) we added config file functionality which allows users to set session-level variables (one of the most requested features!), 2) we developed a better and robust import mechanism, and 3) we fixed all the filename related issues.  Those changes and mostly the last one forced us to change the version number from 0.10.9 to 0.11.1 as a backup taken in 0.10.x will not work in 0.11.x and vice versa.

New Features:

• Adding order by part functionality #388
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MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database, is available as a managed cloud service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) under the name of MySQL Database Service (MDS). MySQL Database Service is a fully managed cloud service, 100% Developed, Managed and Supported by the MySQL Team. This is the eight episode of “Discovering MySQL Database […]

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