This is our fourth blog in the ProxySQL Series

1. MySQL Replication Read-write Split up
2. Seamless Replication Switchover Using MHA
3. Mirroring MySQL Queries

This blog focuses on how to quickly find and address badly written queries using ProxySQL without any downtime and change in application code.

When we get an incident about the high usage on a production master, then mostly it is because of unexpected spike in Traffic (QPS) or slow queries.

Below was the status when we were doing the …

MySQL has multiple timeout variables these slides helps to give an overview of the different  timeout variables and their purposes briefly.

In this blog post, We will be explaining about the timeouts in SST on systemd implementation which we faced recently in Percona XtraDB Cluster  during our Consulting with a client. State Snapshot Transfers (SST) refers to complete data sync from one of the nodes from the cluster to the joining node.

SST will happen for one or more reasons listed below.

1. Initial sync to join a node to cluster.
2. Node is out of cluster and lost its ability to join back due to data corruption or inconsistencies and also when the node went far behind the node, …

In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Basic Internal Troubleshooting Tools for MySQL Server webinar.

First, I want to thank everybody for attending my February 15, 2018, webinar on troubleshooting tools for MySQL. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that I was unable to answer fully during the webinar.

Q: How do we prevent the schema prefix from appearing in the show create view. This is causing issue with restore on another server with a different DB. See the issue …

I was involved in one of the development support for MySQL. Here is an interesting case

The application needs a Sequence generator as it was not present inbuilt with MySQL ( MariaDB will have it in 10.3 ) they have made sequence generator function with ‘select for update‘ statement. But it tends to cause more locking at high concurrency with their XtraDB Cluster deployment.

To get rid of this , the sequence generation were made as direct Update queries and sequence is fetched using Select @next.

UPDATE EO_PK_TABLE SET PK = (@next := PK …

Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents Troubleshooting MySQL Crashes on January 25, 2018, at 10:00 am PST (UTC -8) / 1:00 pm EST (UTC -5).

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This webinar is for every MySQL user! In this talk, I won’t focus on how to analyze core files, read the source code or set breakpoints. Instead, I will focus on techniques that are available to anyone, even a novice.

Many tutorials, including my own, written based on Roel Van de Paar’s video, suggest how to create and analyze core files created at the time of a crash. While this …

As Mydbops we are implementing Load Balancer using Maxscale or ProxySQL ( Our presentation ) for lot our client,  but these load balancers will become a SPOF (Single Point of failure) .  We have tried to explore services like HAProxy, Nginx, and Keepalived etc. Except Keepalived, all the services need to run on the standalone instance and  did not satisfy our exact need.

Keepalived does not requires any standalone instance, it can be deployed and configured with a minimal effort and provide the HA Solutions to the DB Infra. This approach not only fits for our DB setup, we can implement same …

AWS recently announced the release of MariaDB 10.2 for RDS. One of customer needs this release for GIS indexing .The recent encounter on a Replication issue with RDS MariaDB 10.2 is briefed here .

Problem Statement:

After the upgrade of replicas to MariaDB 10.2 on RDS, Once replication is stopped manually through “call mysql.rds_stop_replication;” or replication failed due to some error. Replication cannot be started back using “call mysql.rds_start_replication;” and there is no straightforward way or documented process to start the replication back. Also, most of the replication related RDS commands like skip errors etc will not work. This is due to the implementation of replication handling in RDS.

Summary:

On Jan 5, 2018, RDS announced support for MariaDB 10.2.  …

Join Percona’s Product Manager Michael Coburn as he presents MySQL Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Part 2 on Thursday, January 18, 2018, at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8).

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Optimizing MySQL performance and troubleshooting MySQL problems are two of the most critical and challenging tasks for …

Multi-channel replication is one of the  great feature shipped with MySQL 5.7, With allowed the capability of slave to have many masters, having a channel for each master by which they replicate. Each channel id has a unique “channel_name”

Multi-Channel Replication

In the above DB Architecture “channel_1, channel_2 and channel_3” represent the channel_name used for replication from different MySQL servers ( Source ). In this blog we are not going see about configuration of multi_source replication, rather we are going to see about rolling back multi-source replication in MySQL. Recently we were working on a client, where we had deployed multi-channel replication replication from two master onto a single slave, sync was happening very fine Then came the situation to break the replication from …