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MySQL 8.0.14 was released earlier in the week, and again we (Oracle) received several contributions that either made it into the release or at least inspired a feature or bug fix. This blog will go through the the changelog notes for these changes. Thank you for the contributions.

Two of the contributions are new features with patches submitted by Facebook, one by Daniel Black, and one of Facebook’s patches from 8.0.13 has updated:

• A new system variable, log_slow_extra, if enabled, causes the server to write additional fields to slow query log lines that provide information about slow …

Introduction :

Ansible is an open-source IT automation engine which can remove drudgery from your work life, and will also dramatically improve the scalability, consistency, and reliability of your IT environment.

Nowadays without automation to manage the Databases is very tricky. We are using Ansible as an infra automation tool to install, configure and manage DB infra at Mydbops.

For example, you have 10 Linux server’s which needs MySQL latest version 8.0 to be installed. Anyone can install MySQL using yum or apt-get. But the manual installation is a time-consuming process.

In this blog, I am going to describe the installation of MySQL 8.0 using Ansible.

Ansible Architecture :

Host …

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The MySQL X DevAPI is the new API that provides a uniform API across the supported programming languages. It has from the beginning supported that you can specify a default schema, when you connect. Originally it was not used for SQL statements. Starting with MySQL 8.0.14 the feature has been extended, so SQL statements take the default schema into consideration as well. This blog will explore how this works using MySQL Connector/Python. If you use a different programming language, the change will work in a similar way.

In order to explore the feature, a sample program is needed. A simple program that prints the MySQL Connector/Python version, queries the city table in the default schema, and either …

I already covered some information related to users password recently (see this post and this one).

Today, let’s have a look at the password management features available in MySQL 8.0.

We will cover the password management in MySQL in 5 sections:

• validation
• expiration
• reuse policy
• verification policy
• dual active passwords

Validation

Password validation means that a new password must comply with some policy to be sure the password is not weak. This job is handled by a component in MySQL 8.0: validate_password.

To be able to use that component, you need to install it. You can verify if it’s …

It seems, that this is a question that regularly shows up in forums or stackoverflow.

To start, let’s highlight the fact that in MySQL 8.0 it’s not any more possible to create a user directly from the GRANT command (ERROR 1410 (42000): You are not allowed to create a user with GRANT).

This means that to grant some privileges, the user must be created first.

Let’s create a user ‘user1‘ with ‘ChangeMe‘ as password that the user will have to change:

mysql> create user 'user1' identified by 'ChangeMe' password expire;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (1.35 sec)

Let’s try to connect to MySQL using that new created user:

$ mysql -u …

Please join Percona’s MySQL Product Manager, Tyler Duzan as he presents Walkthrough of Percona Server MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, January 9th at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM (UTC-4).

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Our Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 software is the company’s free, enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL Community Edition. The software includes all of the great features in MySQL Community Edition 8.0. Additionally, it includes enterprise-class features from Percona made available free and open source. …

1.0. Introduction:

MySQL 8.0 was released with awesome features. One of its most prominent features is CTE (Common Table Expression).

The Common Table Expression can be used to construct complex queries in a more readable manner. In this blog, I have described how the CTE works with some useful examples.

1.1 What is CTE?

A Common Table Expression (CTE) is the result set of the query, which exists temporarily and uses only within the context of a larger query.

The CTE provides better readability and performance in comparison with a derived table.

In a normal query the temporary result set that exists only within the execution scope of a single SQL statement.

Example:

select …

As you know, MySQL uses some keywords and some of them are also reserved.

Let’s have a look how to deal with that:

mysql> create table WRITE (id int auto_increment primary key, varying varchar(10), than int);
 ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your 
MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'WRITE (id int auto_increment primary key, 
varying varchar(10), than int)' at line 1

OK, it seems WRITE is a keyword I cannot use as table name. I’ve then two choices:

• rename the table to something else like WRITE_TBL
• use back-ticks (`) around the table like `WRITE`

Let’s use the first option:

mysql> create table WRITE_TBL (id int auto_increment primary key, varying varchar(10), than …

If you are using MySQL InnoDB Cluster (Group Replication) with ProxySQL, you should be familiar with the 2 functions and 1 view required in SYS Schema that ProxySQL uses to see if a node is online, partitioned or not, and if it’s lagging or not (see link1 and link2).

I received recently a very valuable contribution from Bruce DeFrang that fixes a bug in one of the function that were added to SYS.

In fact, Bruce discovered that when a node was in RECOVERING state, it was not …

Please join Percona’s CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL 8 for Developers on Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EST (UTC-5).

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There are many great new features in MySQL 8, but how exactly can they help your application? This session takes a practical look at MySQL 8 features. It also details which limitations of previous MySQL versions are overcome by MySQL 8. Lastly, what you can do with MySQL 8 that you could not have done before is discussed.

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