Parallel query execution is my favorite, non-existent, feature in MySQL. In all versions of MySQL – at least at the time of writing – when you run a single query it will run in one thread, effectively utilizing one CPU core only. Multiple queries run at the same time will be using different threads and will utilize more than one CPU core.

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. With faster disks (i.e. SSD) we can’t utilize the full potential of IOPS with just one thread.

AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6) now has a version which will support parallelism for SELECT queries (utilizing the read capacity of storage nodes underneath the Aurora cluster). In this article, we will look at how this can improve the reporting/analytical query performance in MySQL. I will compare AWS Aurora with MySQL …

Over the last few years, our community discussions have moved to MySQL Community Slack and MySQL Community Forums. And, Q&A discussions have moved to StackExchange and StackOverflow. The traditional MySQL mailing lists do not have any meaningful traffic, and are being discontinued.

So I encourage you to join the MySQL Community Slack. We are all there, ready to discuss and help: MySQL Engineers, and famous DBAs and developers , and newbies too. Come join us!

We would like to continue with announcing the shows where you can find & meet MySQL Community members or MySQL experts. Please find the list below (this time only for January 2019). Further events will come up later on.

• Oracle OpenWorld UK/EMEA, London, UK, Jan 16-17, 2019

  • MySQL team is going to be part of this Oracle show in London. You can visit Oracle/MySQL booth in the Zone 2-O and you can attend a talk given by Mark Swarbrick, the MySQL Principle Presales Consultant as follows:
    • MySQL 8.0: Top 10 Features for DBAs and Developers scheduled for Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 15:10-15:55, @Arena 6 (level 3) - ExCeL London
  • We are really looking forward to talking to you there!
• …

If you have set up per-process metrics in Percona Monitoring and Management, you may have found yourself in need of tuning it further to not only group processes together, but to display some of them in isolation. In this blogpost we will explore how to modify the rules for grouping processes, so that you can make the most out of this awesome PMM integration.

Let’s say you have followed the link above on how to set up the per-process metrics integration on PMM, and you have imported the dashboard to show these metrics. You will see something like the following:

This is an internal testing server we use, in which you can see a high number of VBoxHeadless (29) and mysqld (99) processes running. All the metrics in the dashboard will be grouped by the name of the command used. But, what if we …

We are glad to announce the release of the updated dbForge tools for MySQL. To ensure that the users of our MySQL tools can work with the most up-to-date database engines, we keep expanding connectivity options for our MySQL management tool. For this release, we have implemented support for the latest MariaDB 10.4. in  the […]

We are thrilled to inform our MySQL users that fresh and new dbForge Studio for MySQL, v8.1 has been just rolled out! To ensure that the users of dbForge Studio for MySQL can work with the most up-to-date database engines, we keep expanding connectivity options for our MySQL management tool. In this version, we have […]

In this blog post I’ll be starting another series with MySQL on the Oracle Cloud, but focusing this  post on IaaS initial setups.  In “the series” I’ll review at a high level, building an InnoDB Cluster on IaaS Compute in the Oracle Cloud, mostly focusing certain cloud characteristics as they pertain to building, staging and managing… Read More »

Please join Percona’s Chief Technology Officer, Vadim Tkachenko, as he presents How to Rock with MyRocks on Thursday, January 17th at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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MyRocks is a new storage engine from Facebook and is available in Percona Server for MySQL. In what cases will you want to use it? We will check different workloads and when MyRocks is most suitable for you. Also, as for any new engine, it’s important to set it up and tune it properly. So, we will review the most important settings to pay attention to.

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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’s a few weeks after AWS re:Invent 2018 and my head is still spinning from all of the information released at this year’s conference. This year I was able to enjoy a few sessions focused on Aurora deep dives. In fact, I walked away from the conference realizing that my own understanding of High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Durability in Aurora had been off for quite a while. Consequently, I decided to put this blog out there, both to collect the ideas in one place for myself, and to share them in general. Unlike some of our previous blogs, I’m not focused on analyzing Aurora performance or examining the architecture behind Aurora. Instead, I want to focus on how HA, DR, and Durability are defined and implemented within the Aurora ecosystem.  We’ll get just deep enough into the weeds to be able to examine these capabilities alone.

Aurora MySQL – What is it?

We’ll start with a simplified …