MySQL has a number of integer types, and while INT may seem like the right choice for most scenarios, it’s worth understanding what options you have so you can make the right choice when designing your database. In this article, we’ll take a look at the various integer types and take a deeper dive into how they are stored in MySQL.

An overview of the MySQL INT type

An integer is simply a whole number. It can be positive, negative, or even zero. In MySQL, there are actually several different data types you can use to store integers, each with its own range of numbers. The standards INT type can store up to 4,294,967,296 values including 0, and MySQL permits negative numbers by default unless otherwise specified. Defining an INT column looks like this in a …

Gain a deeper understanding of the MySQL integer types by exploring the different options (INT BIGINT MEDIUMINT etc) and how they are stored.

To follow up on my previous Kubernetes articles:

• Installed in part one (see Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 1: Installation) and
• Have Percona Server for MySQL running (Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 2: Percona Server for MySQL Operator)
• Monitoring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM): Using Percona Kubernetes Operators With K3s Part 3: Monitoring and PMM

I would like to introduce a project which brings Kubernetes observability to the next …

After installing and configuring MySQL 8.0.30, I installed the Apache Web Server, PHP and the MySQLi packages. Here are the step-by-step instructions after installing and configuring the MySQL Server and provisioning a student user and the sakila and studentdb databases (blog for those steps). After installing the major components, I completed the HTTPS configuration steps for Apache 2.

The installation steps are:

1. Install the Apache packages as the sudoer user with this command:

   sudo dnf install -y httpd
   

2. Enable Apache as the sudoer user with this command:

   chkconfig httpd on
   

   This returns the following completion message:

   Note: Forwarding request to 'systemctl enable httpd.service'.
   Created symlink …

After installing and configuring MySQL 8.0.30, I installed the Python connector. During that process on AlmaLinux, there were several changes since I last installed the Python’s mysql module. Here are the step-by-step instructions after installing and configuring MySQL Server (blog for those steps).

Using the MySQL Connector/Python X DevAPI Reference, you must install the pip utility before you install the library. You install the pip library as a sudoer user with the following command:

sudo yum install -y pip

Then, using the pip utility as a sudoer user install the mysql-connector-python module with the following command:

sudo pip install mysql-connector-python

Please note that this …

Database migration or schema evolution is inevitable in any long-lasting project. While NoSQL databases give more leeway, relational databases are pretty rigid regarding schema evolution. Hence, having a suitable tool [...]

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Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.38 (release notes, download). This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.7.39, adding a synchronous option for your MySQL High Availability solutions.

We have backported the InnoDB wsrep applier lock wait timeout from 8.0 which introduces the variable innodb-wsrep-applier-lock-wait-timeout to improve the reliability in resolving …

Not long ago, we found a long-running query in one of our clients on Managed Services. While reviewing this long-running query, we found it was generated by a pt-archiver operation. That doesn’t sound good, right?

I was able to reproduce the issue on my test environment. In this article, I will show you how to use pt-archiver to purge data from a table using a secondary index. First, we need to have the full picture before going any deeper. Here is a representation of the table structure:

Create Table: CREATE TABLE `sbtest1` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `k` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `c` char(120) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `pad` char(60) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `k_1` (`k`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=4000001 DEFAULT …

After installing AlmaLinux in a VMware VM on my MacBook Pro (Intel Chip), and updating the packages with the following command:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh -y

MySQL was first on my installation and configuration list. Here are the commands to install and configure it on AlmaLinux.

Install the MySQL Server packages and dependents:

sudo dnf install mysql mysql-server -y

Install the MySQL service utilities with the initscripts package, using the following command:

sudo yum install -y initscripts

Start the MySQL daemon with the following command:

sudo service mysqld start

Connect and verify the root user can connect to the database. At this point, you’ve not set the root user’s password and should use the following syntax:

mysql -uroot

It should connect and display:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your …

Vitess 15 is now generally available, with a number of new enhancements designed to make Vitess easier to use, more resilient, and easier to scale! VTOrc release # VTOrc, a Vitess-native cluster monitoring and recovery component, is now GA. VTOrc monitors and repairs Vitess clusters, eliminating paging and manual intervention and automating recovery. This makes Vitess fully self-healing and resilient to MySQL server failures. It also obsoletes the third-party integration with Orchestrator that users have traditionally relied on to recover from MySQL server failures.