This is the kick-off of our Tungsten MySQL Use Case Webinar Series presented by Continuent CEO Eero Teerikorpi. Our first three webinars offer a choice of topics ranging from Global MySQL Availability, MySQL Data Protection to MySQL High Availability.

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So this has turned into a small series, explaining how to work with MYSQL from a developers perspective. This post is intended as a directory for the individual articles. It will be amended and re-dated as necessary.

The code for the series is also available in isotopp/mysql-dev-examples on GitHub.

The Tag #mysqldev will reference all articles from this series.

• MySQL Transactions - the physical side. Looking at how MySQL InnoDB handles transactions on the physical media, enabling rollback and commit. Introduces a number of important concepts: The Undo Log, the Redo Log, the Doublewrite Buffer, and the corrosponding in memory …

Using the framework for testing we created in earlier articles, let’s try to modify some data. We are writing a small program that increments a counter. Our table looks like this, and contains 10 counters:

CREATE TABLE `demo` (
  `id` bigint unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `counter` int NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
)
INSERT INTO `demo` VALUES (1,0);
INSERT INTO `demo` VALUES (2,0);
...
INSERT INTO `demo` VALUES (10,0);

We are using some very simple programming to increment a counter:

@sql.command()
@click.option("--name", default="demo", help="Table name to count in")
@click.option("--id", default=0, help="Counter to use")
@click.option("--count", default=1000, help="Number of increments")
def count(name, id, count):
    """ Increment counter --id by --count many steps in table --name """
    for i in range(0, count):
        cmd = f"update {name} set counter=counter+1 where id = {id}"

        c = …

As Group Replication (GR) matures and it is deployed in a myriad of different systems, we begin to witness specific network conditions that we must be able to cope with in order to make Group Replication more tolerant and robust to those failures.…

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I wanted to be brave and I installed MySQL Group Replication manually…. it was painful !

Then I realized that managing those servers and especially deal with MySQL Routers was even more painful !

What are my options now ? Is there a solution or do I need to restart from scratch ?

Asking the answer is already answering it… and once again MySQL Shell at the rescue.

MySQL Group Replication

I’ve configured everything manually. I also loaded group_replication and clone plugins and finally after having bootstrapped my Group here is what I have:

mysql> select member_host, member_port port, member_state state, 
       member_role role, member_version version 
       from performance_schema.replication_group_members;
+-------------+------+--------+-----------+---------+
| member_host | port | state  | role      | version | …

After having a look how MySQL handles transactions physically, let’s have a look at what is going on from a logical point of view.

We are using a test table called demo with an id and a counter field, both integer. In it we have 10 counters, all set to 0.

CREATE TABLE `demo` (
  `id` bigint unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `counter` int NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
)
INSERT INTO `demo` VALUES (1,0);
INSERT INTO `demo` VALUES (2,0);
...
INSERT INTO `demo` VALUES (10,0);

In one session, we start a transaction and modify a counter value. We do not commit anything.

Session1> start transaction read write;
Session1> update demo set counter = 10 where id = 3;

Isolation

In a second session, we check the data and notice a few things:

Session2> select …

Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can implement an audit logging mechanism using MySQL database triggers to store the old and new row states in JSON column types. Database tables Let’s assume we have a library application that has the following two tables: The book table stores all the books that are found in our library, and the book_audit_log table stores the CDC (Change Data Capture) events that happened to a given book record via an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE DML statement. The book_audit_log table is created... Read More

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We all know as SQL professionals that the NULL marker is a special case. Oftentimes, you have NULL‘s stored in your tables, and that’s fine. Suppose you want to present an alternative value in query results where some of the columns have NULL? This is a perfect opportunity (but not the only) to use the IFNULL() function. I find IFNULL() quite useful when exporting query results to a CSV file or other type of flat file, providing something more meaningful than the NULL word itself. However, you only have one substitute for the NULL value when using IFNULL(), so keep that in mind. Continue reading and see examples using IFNULL() in SELECT queries…

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Sometimes, you just half to chuckle. A couple folks felt that I didn’t give enough information in my post showing how to configure a small Node.js application that could access a MySQL database. Specifically, they wanted me to explain the following:

1. Configure your Express.js and MySQL development in a single Node.js application.
2. How to convert the list of RowDataPacket objects as elements of data, which is really just simple JavaScript knowledge.
3. How to bind variables into the query.

Like the other blog post, this one assumes you’ve performed a global install of Node.js on a Linux server. If you’re unfamiliar with how to perform a global Node.js installation, I cover how to do it in this …

In my previous Blog i have explained how we can integrate MySQL tools ( Percona Tool kit ) with systemd service, At Mydbops works with multiple clients ,we get various requirements from customers a few may be a complex ones ,one of the requirement was to setup a binlog server and copy the Production binlogs instantly .

To satisfy customer request i have made a simple shell script and integrated in systemd service which does a similar job as of Maxscale Binlog Server ( Pervious blog )

In this blog i will explain how to setup a simple binlog server.

Pre-requites for setting up the Binlog server.

• A standalone remote server with required disk.
• The mysqlclient to be …