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Join us on Wednesday April 28th, 2021 @9:00AM PST for a live webinar that will cover how to migrate from Amazon Aurora to MySQL Database Service and HeatWave. See how you can easily migrate your data from Amazon Aurora to MySQL Database Service and benefit from 1100x performance increase at 1/3 the ...

Join us on Thursday April 29th, 2021 @10:00 CET (EMEA) for a live webinar that will cover the new features of MySQL Enterprise Edition.  

Who's the event for? 

• Your applications manage personal data: name, account numbers, passwords 
• You belong to an industry or region that is subject to data protection requirements
• You use 3rd party components for authentication, auditing, & key management
• You're an ISVs and SaaS organization that manages sensitive customer data
• You're an existing MySQL Community Edition user

Learn how MySQL Enterprise Edition will save you time and give you piece of mind by increasing the protection of your critical data, the prevention of data breaches and by helping you meet regulator requirements.

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Join us on Thursday April 29th, 2021 @10:00 CET (EMEA) for a live webinar that will cover the new features of MySQL Enterprise Edition. Who's the event for? Your applications manage personal data: name, account numbers, passwords You belong to an industry or region that is subject to data protection...

On behalf of the Vitess maintainers, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 10. Major Themes # In this release, Vitess Maintainers have continued to focus on compatibility. It is still the most critical component of Vitess being part of the MySQL ecosystem. We have also started working on benchmarking and performance optimizations. These improvements have given us a clear vision of which areas of Vitess can be improved in terms of performance.

Apologies for the silly title, but the issue is a real one, even though it is not a new thing. Schema upgrades are not an ordinary operation in Galera. For the subject at hand, the bottom line is: under the default Total Order Isolation (TOI) method, “the cluster replicates the schema change query as a statement before its execution.” What this means in practice is that a DDL issued in one node is replicated to other nodes in the cluster before it is even executed in the source node, let alone completed successfully.

As a result of this, it may fail in one node and be successful in another, and this without raising loud alerts or stopping nodes to protect against data inconsistency. This is not a bug in itself but rather a compromise of design. With new changes in MySQL and the …

Recently I posted an article on how to deal with arrays when trying to use MySQL Shell Dump Utility in command line.

Of course, this proposed solution was a workaround for MySQL Shell <= 8.0.23. The new version of MySQL Shell 8.0.24 supports now arrays \o/ !

So if we take the same example of the previous post, we can now use the following syntax:

$ mysqlsh root@localhost -- util dump-instance /tmp/dump \
    --excludeSchemas=["mysql_innodb_cluster_metadata","fred_test"] \
    --threads=8 --showProgress

Please mind that lack of <space> between the elements of the array. If you use …

The new role of recovery (RPO and RTO) in a continuous, highly available MySQL environment?

After downloading and installing MySQL 8.0.24 yesterday, I opened a command shell. In the command shell, I could access the MySQL Shell (mysqlsh.exe) but not the MySQL Client (mysql.exe). Typing in the following:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>mysql

It returned:

'mysql' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

The MySQL Client (mysql.exe) was installed because MySQL Workbench relies on it. However, the MySQL Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) does not put the mysql.exe file’s directory in the common Windows %PATH% environment variable. You can find the required %PATH% directory variable by opening the File Manager and searching for the mysql.exe file.

You should return several directories and programs but the directory you want is:

C:\Program …

Sometimes things go wrong, and it surely would be nice if you at least knew afterwards what happened. Where I work, we are running a shell script older than time itself, once a minute. The script writes files to /var/log/mysql_pl, into a directory named after the current weekday and named after the current hour and minute.

So when a box crashes on Thursday at 22:09, as long as I can login to it, I still can try to look at /var/log/mysql_pl/Thu/22_0? and try to reconstruct what happened before the crash. Often the buildup to catastrophe is clearly visible.

A version in Python

Our shell script is not really portable or viable outside the work environment, so I rewrite a similar thing in Python. It has no dependencies outside of a base install of a modern Python, except for mysqlclient …