In my last blog post we have seen how we can easily collect general MySQL status information using the sys.diagnostics() procedure. What about a single session/thread ? Is there built-in way to easily trace a target thread/session activity (ex: transactions/ statements/stage/wait events) like using an oracle SQL trace ?

The procedure “ps_trace_thread()” introduced in MySQL 5.7 allow monitoring a specific thread. This procedure is based on Mark Leith work in his blog post A Big Bag of Epic Awesomeness. (I love the title :))

It will  captures as much information on the thread activity as possible depending on the actual …

Has MySQL a built-in way to easily take a look at the overall server status without the need to execute many different custom query or program ? Maybe something similar to an oracle AWR report ?

Starting with MySQL 5.7.9 and later we can use the SYS procedure “diagnostics()” for that which rely the information available on the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA !

Let’s give it a try  by generating a HTML report for the currently running instance (starts an iteration every 30 seconds and runs for at most 60 seconds using the current Performance Schema settings ) :

mysql -u root -p -H -e"CALL sys.diagnostics(60, 30, 'current');" > ./current_instance_report.html

The report contain information such as :

Wait event :

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to easily add a complete authentication system to your Django application with login, logout and password change and reset functionalities.

We'll be using Django with a MySQL database.

We'll also be using django-crispy-forms and Bootstrap 4 for styling the application UI.

Prerequisites

Let's start with the prerequisites for this tutorial. In order to follow the tutorial step by step, you'll need a few requirements, such as:

Basic knowledge of Python, Working knowledge of Django (django-admin.py and manage.py), A recent version of Python 3 installed on your system (the latest version is 3.7), MySQL database installed on your system.

We will be using pip and venv which are bundled as modules in recent versions of Python so you don't actually need to install them unless you are working with old versions.

If you are ready, lets go started!

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In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to test Kubernetes locally on OSX/macOS. Testing Kubernetes without having access to a cloud operator in a local lab is not as easy as it sounds. I’d like to share some of my experiences in this adventure. For those who have already experienced in Virtualbox & Vagrant combination, I can tell you that it doesn’t work. Since Kubernetes will require virtualization, setting another virtual environment within another VirtualBox has several issues. After trying to bring up a cluster for a day or two, I gave up my traditional lab and figured out that Kubernetes has an alternate solution called minikube.

Installation

If your OSX/macOS doesn’t have brew I strongly recommend installing …

Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour on Thursday, March 21st, 2019, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4).

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MySQL 8.0 Performance Schema is a mature tool, used by humans and monitoring products. It was born in 2010 as “a feature for monitoring server execution at a low level.” The tool has grown over the years with performance fixes and DBA-faced features. In this webinar, I will give …

MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification hides sensitive information by replacing real values with substitutes in order to protect sensitive data while they are still look real and consistent.

In this post we describe MySQL connections, user threads, and scaling. We hope that an increased understanding of how MySQL works will help application developers and system administrators to make good choices and trade-offs. We describe how connections work in a plain community server and we do not cover related topics such as thread pooling, resource groups, or connection multiplexing in this post.…

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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-5 on March 15, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

This release includes fixes to bugs found in previous releases of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.

Incompatible changes

In previous releases, the audit log used to produce time stamps inconsistent with the ISO 8601 standard. Release 8.0.15-5 of Percona Server for MySQL solves this problem. This change, however, may break programs that rely on the old time stamp …

Just about a month ago, Pavel Ivanov released Ripple under the Apache-2.0 license. Ripple is a MySQL binlog server: software which receives binary logs from MySQL or MariaDB servers and delivers them to another MySQL or MariaDB server. Practically ,this is an intermediary master which does not store any data, except the binary logs themselves, and does not apply events. This solution allows saving of a lot of resources on the server, which acts only as a middle-man between the master and its actual slave(s).

The intermediary server, keeping binary logs only and not doing any other job, is a prevalent use case which allows us to remove IO (binlog read) and network (binlog retrieval via network) load from the actual …

I strongly believe in the community.

Communities are the real strength of open source. Not just the theoretical ability to study, modify and share code – but the fact that other people out there are doing these things. Creating a base of knowledge and a network of relations.These can become work relationships, valuable discussions, open source tools, or even friendships.

That is why, when I heard that several people from the Percona support team will soon be in London, I badly wanted to organise an event.

Actually, there was an interesting coincidence. When I asked Sveta Smirnova if anyone from Percona lives in London, I already knew I wanted to organise an event with this new meetup group I’ve started: …