MySQL Community with an APAC MySQL team are going to be part of the FOSSASIA Summit this week. We are a Bronze sponsor with a MySQL booth in the exhibition area. We are also having several talks in the Database track on Saturday, March 16, please see some of them below together with the details about the show:

• Name: FOSSASIA Summit 2019
• Place: Singapore
• Date: March 14-17, 2019
• MySQL talks in Database Track on Mar 16 in Training Room 2-1:
  • "Replication: What's New in MySQL 8.0" by Narendra S Chauhan, the Principal Technical Staff @Replication Development team. The talk is scheduled for 10:55-11:20.
  • "Upgrading to MySQL 8.0+, a more automated experience" by Nisha Gopalakrishnan, the Principal Technical Staff @MySQL Server Development team. The talk is scheduled for …

Author: Scott Stone

We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL 8.8. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera Customer Portal. New users may download the trial version from the Idera Website or the Monyog Website.

Rebranded from the popular Monyog product for monitoring performance of MySQL and other MySQL compatible databases, SDM for MySQL is  a comprehensive solution to monitor, alert, and diagnose the availability, health, and performance of MySQL, or MariaDB in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL addresses the most critical performance …

MySQL error log contains diagnostics messages such as errors, warnings and notes that occur during MySQL startup, shutdown and while the server is running. For example, a InnoDB table is corrupted and need to repaired, This will be recorded in the error log. MySQL 8.0 Error uses the MySQL component architecture for log event filtering and writing. The MySQL system variable log_error_services controls which log components to enable and the rules for filtering the log events. The component table in the mysql system database contains the information about currently loaded comments and shows which components have been registered with INSTALL COMPONENT. To confirm the components installed, you may use the SQL below:

SELECT * FROM mysql.component;

Currently the available log components are in lib/plugins:

• component_log_filter_dragnet.so
• component_log_sink_json.so
…

I have had some requests to write some blogs on the basics of using PHP and MySQL together.  This will not be a series for the experienced as it will start at a level where I will go into a lot of details but expect very few prerequisites from the reader.  If this is not you, please move on. If it is you and you read something you do not understand, please contact me to show me where I assumed too much.

PHP and MySQL are both in their mid twenties and both vital in the worlds of developers.  With the big improvements in PHP 7 and MySQL 8, I have found a lot of developers flocking to both but stymied by the examples they see as their are many details not explained. So let's get to the explaining!
1. Use the latest software
If you are not using PHP 7.2 or 7.3 (or maybe 7.1) then you are missing out in features and performance.  The PHP 5.x series is deprecated, no longer support, and …

This was not on the radar. I have never been proficient in Galera clusters and related technologies, and thus I hadn’t given much thought to Percona Xtradb Cluster (PXC), until Alkin approached me at FOSDEM, and proposed to extend dbdeployer features to support PXC. He mentioned that many support engineers at Percona use dbdeployer) on a daily basis and that the addition of PXC would be welcome.

I could not follow up …

In this blog post, I want to share a case we worked on a few days ago. I’ll show you how we approached the resolution of a MySQL performance issue and used Percona Monitoring and Management PMM to support troubleshooting. The customer had noticed a linear high CPU usage in one of their MySQL instances and was not able to figure out why as there was no much traffic hitting the app. We needed to reduce the high CPU usage on MySQL. The server is a small instance:

Models | 6xIntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2430 0 @ 2.20GHz
10GB RAM

This symptom can be caused by various different reasons. Let’s see how PMM can be used to troubleshoot the issue.

CPU

It’s important to understand where the CPU time is being consumed: user space, system space, iowait, and so on. Here we can see that CPU usage was …

Join Percona Support Engineer, Vinicius Grippa, as he presents his talk Enhancing MySQL Security on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 at 7:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 10:00 AM EST (UTC-5).

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Security is always a challenge when it comes to data. What’s more, regulations like GDPR add a whole new layer on top of it, with rules more and more restrictive to access and manipulate data. Join us in this presentation to check security best practices, as well as traditional and new features available for MySQL including features coming with the new …

Over time, software evolves and it is important to stay up to date if you want to benefit from new features and performance improvements.  Database engines follow the exact same logic and providers are always careful to provide an easy upgrade path. With MySQL, the mysql_upgrade tool serves that purpose.

A database upgrade process becomes more challenging in a managed environment like AWS RDS where you don’t have shell access to the database host and don’t have access to the SUPER MySQL privilege. This post is a collaboration between Fattmerchant and Percona following an engagement focused on the upgrade of the Fattmerchant database from Amazon Aurora MySQL 5.6 to Amazon Aurora MySQL 5.7. Jacques Fu, the CTO of Fattmerchant, is the co-author of this post.  Our initial plan was to follow a path laid out previously by others but we had difficulties finding any …

ROLLUP has been supported in MySQL for sometime now. But until now its use has come with two implementation restrictions: it cannot be combined with DISTINCT or ORDER BY in the same query expression. Starting in 8.0.12, these limitations have been lifted.…

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This week the Southern California Linux Expo 2019 (ScaLE) will be hold in Pasadena, US where you can find MySQL & Oracle Cloud representatives. Please find details about our presence below:

• Name: Southern California Linux Expo 2019 (ScaLE)
• Place: Pasadena, US
• Date: March 7-10, 2019
• Level of presence: Gold sponsor w/ booth
• MySQL & Oracle talks:
  • "MySQL Document Store - A NoSQL JSON Document Database" given by David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager. His talk is scheduled for Friday, Mar 8th, 2019 @10:00-11:30 in Room 101.
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