Yes, SCaLE, or the Southern California Linux Expo is back. Friday is the MySQL track with eight presentations. A big thanks to all the presenters and we hope to see you at the LAX Hilton July 29th!

MySQL 8.0 New Features

• Dave Stokes
• Audience:Everyone
• Topic:MySQL
• MySQL now features quarterly releases that come with new features.  So if you do not know about hash joins, replica set, JSON document validation, or other new features then you need to be in this presentation.!
• Room:
• Carmel
• Time:
• Friday, July 29, 2022 - 10:00 to 11:00

State of MySQL Security in 2022

• Alexander Rubin
• Audience:Developer
• Topic:MySQL
• In this talk we will look into …

Imagine you need to design an online system for storing documents on a per-user basis where nobody, including database administrators, would be able to change the content of those documents without being noticed by document owners.

In Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-20, we added a new component called Encryption UDFs – an open-source alternative to MySQL Enterprise Encryption that allows users to access a number of low-level OpenSSL encryption primitives directly from MySQL. This includes calculating digests (with a great variety of hash functions), asymmetric key generation (RSA, …

Sure, wait event times in any database will include some CPU time, though ideally it should be minimal. Waits should be instrumented as close to the off CPU wait event as possible, i.e. if I’m doing an IO, then I want the wait to cover just the read call:

start_wait('my_read_wait');
pread( ... );
end_wait('my_read_wait');

So my function that sets up the read will do some CPU that could get caught under the cover of the wait itself and the call to pread will use some CPU but most of the time should be waiting for the actual I/O if the I/O is coming from storage.

start_wait('my_lock');
semtimedop(...);
end_wait('my_lock');

On MySQL I’ve noticed that average active sessions on CPU are often well below what the host reports as CPU utilization. For example if I have one connection on CPU a 100% of the time on a 2 vCPU host then CPU Utilization should be around 50%.  There might be …

I’m sharing another tip for anyone who wants to learn more about MySQL and how to use it. This post covers an example of the differences in columns specified in the WHERE clause but not the SELECT clause and vice-versa.

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When performing physical backup on system that are heavily used, it can happen that the backup speed cannot keep up with the redo log generation. This can happen when the backup storage is slower than the redo log storage media and this can lead in inconsistency in the generated backup.

MySQL Enterprise Backup (aka MEB) and probably Percona Xtrabackup, benefit from the possibility to sequentially write redo log records to an archive file in addition to the redo log files.

This feature was introduced in MySQL 8.0.17.

How to enable it ?

To enable this feature, two settings are necessary:

• set globally a directory where those archiving logs can be stored
• start the archiving process in a session by calling a dedicated function

The global variable is …

The LEMP software stack is a group of open-source software that enables a server to host dynamic websites and apps written in PHP. This guide will show you to install a LEMP Stack on an Ubuntu 22.04 server.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 14. Major Themes # In this new release, major improvements have been made in several areas of Vitess, including usability and reliability. Online DDL is now GA. Gen4 planner is the new default planner. VTAdmin and VTOrc are officially in beta with Vitess 14. Usability # Command-Line Syntax Deprecation # This release marks the beginning of Vitess standardizing its command-line and flags syntax.

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One of my students asked how you could get JSON data out in tabular format. I said they should look at Øystein Grøvlen’s JSON_TABLE – Best of Both Worlds blog post from 2018. Unfortunately, the student wanted another example with the Video Store model that we use in class.

For clarity, all path definitions start with a $ followed by other selectors:

• A period followed by a name, such as $.website
• [N] where N is the position in a zero-indexed array
• The .[*] wildcard evaluates all members of an object
• The [*] wildcard evaluates all members of an array
• The prefix and suffix wildcard, **, evaluates to all paths that begin with the named prefix and end with the named suffix

So, here’s a quick supplement to what’s already there. It assumes you created an …

Yesterday, I wrote a blog post that showed you how to write a query returning a JSON structure for a 1:many relationship. The relationship was between the member and contact table. It returns one account_number from the member table and a list of first_name and last_name columns from the contact table in a JSON structure.

One of my students asked why I choose to strip the backslashes with Python, and my reply was the SQL was already complex for most blog readers. The student asked but how would you do it in SQL. OK, that’s a fair question for two reasons. First, you don’t need to do in your local programs because it’ll run faster on the server. Second, if you strip the backslashes you can insert it into a standard JSON column. This blog post will show you how to do both.

You would use three REGEXP_REPLACE function calls, like: