In my last post about big MySQL deployments, I am quickly mentioning that InnoDB compression is allowing dividing disk usage by about 4.3 on a 200+ TiB dataset.  In this post, I will give more information about this specific use case of InnoDB table compression and I will share some statistics and learnings on this system and subject.  Note that I am not covering InnoDB page compression which is

In this blog, we’ll look at group replication and how it deals with flow control (FC) and replication lag. 

Overview

In the last few months, we had two main actors in the MySQL ecosystem: ProxySQL and Group-Replication (with the evolution to InnoDB Cluster). 

While I have extensively covered the first, my last serious work on Group Replication dates back to some lab version years past.

Given that Oracle decided to declare it GA, and Percona’s decision to provide some level of Group Replication support, I decided it was time for me to take a look at it again.

We’ve seen a lot of coverage already too many Group Replication topics. There are articles about Group Replication and performance, Group Replication and basic functionalities (or lack of it like automatic node provisioning), Group Replication and ProxySQL, and so on.

But one question kept coming up over and over in my …

Upstream platform vendors have announced the general end of life (EOL) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) and its derivatives, as well as Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. With this announcement comes some implications to support for Percona software running on these operating systems.

RHEL 5 was EOL as of March 31st, 2017 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was end of life as of April 28th, 2017. Pursuant to our end of life policies, we are announcing that these EOLs will go into effect for Percona software on August 1st, 2017. As of this date, we will no longer be producing new packages, binary builds, hotfixes, or bug fixes for Percona software on these platforms.

We …

In MySQL 8.0.2 DMR we will introduce features which make managing undo tablespaces easier in InnoDB.

The main improvement is that you can now create and drop undo tablespaces at any time.  You can change the config file setting before any startup, whether recovery is needed or not. …

MySQL theoretical limits are known and they can be found in the manual, they include:

MyISAM permits data and index files to grow up to 256 TiB by default, but this limit can be changed up to the maximum permissible size of 65,536 TiB (256^7 − 1 bytes). The maximum tablespace size depends on the InnoDB page size: 64 TiB for 16 KiB pages.(The maximum tablespace size is also the maximum size for a

This is old news for MySQL/MariaDB expert but people that are starting using InnoDB do not always know that disk space is not automatically released when deleting data from a table.  To explain and demonstrate that, I will take two real-world examples: table1 and table2.

Recently, more than 90% and about 20% of rows were deleted from table1 and table2 (those tables contain real data, I only

Introduction:

• MySQL 5.7 introduces a new feature called virtual/generated column. It is called generated column because the data of this column is computed based on a predefined expression or from other columns.

What is Virtual Column ?

• In general virtual columns appear to be normal table columns, but their values are derived rather than being stored on disk.
• Virtual columns are one of the top features in MySQL 5.7,they can store a value that is derived from one or several other fields in the same table in a new field.

Syntax :

Syntax for adding new virtual column,

==> Alter table table_name add column column_name generated always as column_name virtual;

Example :

Alter table contacts add column generated always as mydbops_test virtual / stored.

GENERATED ALWAYS …

Something interesting happened to me in the last days, and it is worth sharing.  I was upgrading MariaDB (MySQL also impacted) to a new major version and mysql_upgrade showed something like this:

[...] Phase 4/7: Running 'mysql_fix_privilege_tables' ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 586: Duplicate entry 'schema-table_name#P#partition_name_truncated' for key 'PRIMARY' ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 590:

Welcome to Part 2 in a series of blog posts on MySQL encryption at rest. This post covers InnoDB tablespace encryption.

At Percona, we work with a number of clients that require strong security measures for PCI, HIPAA and PHI compliance, where data managed by MySQL needs to be encrypted “at rest.” As with all things open source, there several options for meeting the MySQL encryption at rest requirement. In this three-part series, we cover several popular options of encrypting data and present the various pros and cons to each solution. You may want to evaluate which parts of these tutorials work best for your situation before using them in production.

Part one of this series covered …

This blog post looks at the recent MariaDB Server 10.2 GA release.

Congratulations to the MariaDB Foundation for releasing a generally available (GA) stable version of MariaDB Server 10.2! We’ll definitely spend the next few weeks talking about MariaDB Server 10.2, but here’s a quick overview in the meantime. Keep in mind that when thinking about compatibility, this is meant to be the equivalent of MySQL 5.7 (GA: October 21, 2015, with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 GA available February 23, 2016).

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