I have a presentation next month on MySQL and GIS.  MySQL 8.0 has benefited greatly from the three dimensional libraries from Boost.Geometry. There are many facets to the Geographic Data world that it is damn near impossible not to lurch down one rabbit hole into another in an unending spiral of acronyms, standards, projections, and functions.  But thankfully I have MySQL Workbench to aid me.

Texas
I wanted some test data to use for some GIS exercises and was very happy to find many useful sets curated by the OpenStreetMaps folks. Shapefiles are used to hold the various data points of an item of interest.  I had assumed that the data would have some sort of longitude/latitude pairs but was wondering what I would need to do to work with that data and what ever came bundled with it.  I download the Texas data and then …

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting? So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments. In this post, we outline the best way to host MySQL on Azure, including managed solutions, instance types, high availability replication, backup, and disk types to use to optimize your cloud database performance.

MySQL DBaaS vs. Self-Managed MySQL

The first thing to consider when weighing between self-management and a MySQL Database-as-a-Service …

Note: I am no longer working for Oracle/MySQL. This post is based on public information.

The MySQL 8.0.17 release is around the corner. Let's take a look at the new features in the upcoming release.

InnoDB redo log archive

InnoDB added new parameter “--innodb-redo-log-archive-dirs” in 8.0.17, according to the doc page. The implementation of both page archive and redo log archive has been in the code for a while, under arch directory. This feature can be used by backup and database clone.


Multi-Valued Indexes

As of MySQL 8.0.17, InnoDB supports multi-valued indexes. A multi-valued index is a secondary index defined on a column that stores an array of values. A “normal” index has one index record for each data record (1:1). A multi-valued index …

During our work in support, we see this again and again: “I try to connect to MySQL and am getting a 1045 error”, and most times it comes accompanied with “…but I am sure my user and password are OK”.  So we decided it was worth showing other reasons this error may occur.

MySQL 1045 error Access Denied triggers in the following cases: 1) Connecting to wrong host:

[engineer@percona]# mysql -u root -psekret
mysql: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure. 
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

If not specifying the host to connect (with -h flag), MySQL client will try to connect to the localhost instance while you may be trying to connect to another host/port instance.

Fix: Double check if you are trying to connect to localhost, or be sure to specify host and port if it’s not localhost:

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SQL Except Clause Example | Except Statement In SQL is today’s topic. The SQL EXCEPT operator is used to combine two select statements, which in turn returns the row that is present in the first select statement and not in the second select statement. This Clause acts like a subtract operation that we perform in sets and Venn diagrams.

SQL Except Clause Example

In SQL, EXCEPT returns those tuples that are returned by the first SELECT operation, and not returned by the second SELECT operation.

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The Question Recently, a customer asked us:

After importing a new section of user data into our Tungsten cluster, we are seeing perpetually rising replication lag. We are sitting at 8.5hrs estimated convergence time after importing around 50 million rows and this lag is climbing continuously. We are currently migrating some of our users from a NoSQL database into our Tungsten cluster. We have a procedure to write out a bunch of CSV files after translating our old data into columns and then we recursively send them to the write master using the mysql client. Specifically our import SQL is doing LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE and the reading in a large CSV file to do the import. We have 20k records per CSV file and we have 12 workers which insert them in parallel.

Simple Overview The Skinny

In cases like this, the slaves are having trouble with the database unable to keep up with the apply stage …

Last year, we asked you a few questions in a blog poll and we received a great amount of feedback. This year, we wanted to follow up on those same survey questions to see what may have changed over the last 12 months. So with that in mind, we’re hoping you can take a minute or so to answer the first survey question in this series: What Keeps You Up At Night? Is it fixing emergencies? Bad queries? Cost concerns? Inquiring minds want to know!

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I think it is often confusing to compare upstream MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL, and some helpful information can be found in the introductory notes. But what does that really mean for an ordinary DBA, especially if none of the known big extra features are important in a particular use case?

In this article, I would like to start a series of short blog posts highlighting small, often less known, but potentially useful features, available in Percona Server for MySQL. Let’s start with a relatively new feature.

Limit the disk space used by binary logs problem

Historically, dealing with binary logs and the disk space used by them was quite challenging. The only thing that let you control this is the …

Author: Robert Agar

The working life of a DBA is often centered on optimizing their systems to provide users with the best performance. There are many aspects of a MySQL implementation that can be tuned to increase its functionality. These improvements will result in a more efficient system and enhanced user experience.

One of the problems facing the DBA responsible for instituting performance tuning is to identify the particular areas to address that will impact the system in a positive manner. Approaching this task in a haphazard fashion is not advisable. Randomly modifying parameters is just as likely to cause further issues than to lead to performance gains. Luckily, there is a solution to this dilemma.

Conducting focused monitoring can be instrumental in enabling the DBA to pinpoint the source of performance degradation. Armed with this knowledge, informed decisions can be made regarding how …

Introduction In this article, we are going to test the MySQL 8 implementation of custom SQL CHECK constraints. Although the CHECK clause is a standard SQL feature, prior to MySQL 8.0.16, the clause was parsed and ignored, so this functionality could only be emulated via BEFORE INSERT and UPDATE triggers. Custom SQL CHECK constraints As I explained in this article, custom SQL CHECK constraints are very useful to ensure non-nullability constraints for JPA entity subclass-specific attributes when using the SINGLE TABLE JPA inheritance strategy. To understand the problem, consider we have the... Read More

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