For the past year or so I have been reminding folks that MySQL 5.6 reaches End of Life Status in ONE MONTH!!  No more updates or security fixes!  Nostalgia is a fine things and I like antiques but not for my database!

So if you are on 5.6 please upgrade to 5.7 -- https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/upgrading.html and consider going to 8.0 - https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/upgrading.html  plus there is a5.7 to 8.0 upgrade checker in the new shell - https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-utilities-upgrade.html

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Overview

Percona Operator for MySQL (POM) comes with two different proxies, HAProxy and ProxySQL. While the initial version was based on ProxySQL, in time Percona opted to set HAProxy as the default Proxy for the operator, this without removing ProxySQL. 

While one of the main points was to guarantee users to have a 1:1 compatibility with vanilla MySQL in the way the operator allows connections. There are also other factors that are involved in the decision to have two proxies. In this article I will scratch the surface of this why.

Operator assumptions

When working with the Percona operator for MySQL, there are few things to keep in mind:

• Each deployment has to be seen as a single MySQL service as if a single MySQL instance
• The technology used to provide the service may change in time
• Pod resiliency is not guaranteed, Service resiliency is.  …

Overview 

Percona operator for MySQL (POM) :(https://www.percona.com/doc/kubernetes-operator-for-pxc/index.html) it’s aim is a special type of controller introduced to simplify complex deployments. The Operator extends the Kubernetes API with custom resources.

The Percona Operator for MySQL solution is using Percona Xtradb Cluster behind the hood to provide a highly available, resilient and scalable MySQL service in the Kubernetes space. 

This solution comes with all the advantages/disadvantages provided by Kubernetes, plus with some advantages of its own like the capacity to scale reads on the nodes that are not Primary.

Of course there are some limitations like the way PXC handle DDLs, which may impact the service, but there is always a cost to pay to get something, expecting to have all for …

How scheduler and script stand in supporting failover (Percona and Marco example) 

In part one of this series,  I had illustrated how simple scenarios may fail or have problems when using Galera native support inside ProxySQL. In this post, I will repeat the same tests but using the scheduler option and the external script.

The Scheduler

First a brief explanation about the scheduler.

The scheduler inside ProxySQL was created to allow administrators to extend ProxySQL capabilities. The scheduler gives the option to add any kind of script or application and run it at the specified interval of time. The scheduler was also the initial first way we had to deal with Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) node …

In recent times I have been designing several solutions focused on High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Some of them using Percona Server for MySQL with group replication, some using Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). What many of them had in common was the use of ProxySQL for the connection layer. This is because I consider the use of a layer 7 Proxy preferable, given the possible advantages provided in ReadWrite split and SQL filtering. 

The other positive aspect provided by ProxySQL, at least for Group Replication, is the native support which allows us to have a very quick resolution of possible node failures.

ProxySQL has Galera support as well, but in the past, that had shown to be pretty unstable, and the …

in this tutorial, We ll concatenate two or multiple columns in MySQL.We will select the values and concat multiple columns using MySQL inbuilt method. It can also achieve same thing using programmatically. You need to select columns fields value separately from MySQL Table and store their values in the single variable after concat their values. […]

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Just realized I did not post any notes about dim_STAT CoreUpdates during the last 3 years, so will try to fix it now with the following short summary ;-))

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If you run MySQL on Amazon RDS and use passwords, I sure hope you frequently rotate those passwords (among many other security best practices). But if you don’t rotate them, I might know why: it’s quite difficult to set up when you really get into it. It seems easy at first, but if you’ve ever tried you know how quickly it becomes complicated. At least, that was my experience. So to help others overcome the challenges and do frequent password rotation, I wrote up a long read: MySQL Password Rotation with AWS Secrets Manager and Lambda.

MySQL Password Rotation with AWS Secrets Manager and Lambda MySQL password rotation using Amazon RDS for MySQL, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS Lambda is a complex challenge to automate at scale. It appears easy at first—just two services and some IAM resources, right? But actual implementation quickly reveals a significant depth of considerations, choices, trade-offs, and technical problems. This page is a detailed guide to implementing MySQL 5.7 password rotation—fully automated at scale—using AWS RDS, Secrets Manager, and Lambda, and Terraform for cloud infrastructure.