Back in December, I did a detailed analysis for getting data into Vertica from MySQL using Tungsten Replicator, all within the Kodiak MemCloud.

I got some good numbers towards the end – 1.9 million rows/minute into Vertica. I did this using a standard replicator deployment, plus some tweaks to the Vertica environment. In particular:

• Integer hash for a partition for both the staging and base tables
• Some tweaks to the queries to ensure that we used the partitions in the most efficient manner
• Optimized the batching within the applier to hit the right numbers for the transaction counts

That last one is a bit of a cheat because in a real-world situation it’s much harder to be able to identify those transaction sizes and row counts, but for testing, we’re trying to get the best performance!

Next what I wanted to do was set up some bare metal and AWS servers that were of an …

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL® and MongoDB® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL® and MongoDB® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

In PMM Release 1.11.0, we deliver the following changes:

• Configurable MySQL Slow Log Rotation – enable or disable rotation, and specify how many files to keep on disk
• Predictable Graphs – we’ve updated our formulas to use aggregation functions over time for more reliable graphs
• MySQL Exporter Parsing of my.cnf – we’ve improved how we read my.cnf
• Annotation improvements – passing …

Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.10 on May 22, 2018.

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL®, MongoDB® and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. With over 1,000,000 downloads, Percona Toolkit supports Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL®, MariaDB®, Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB.

Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source. You can download packages  …

If you’re someone who keeps up with the Go development cycle, then you’ll know that a couple of weeks ago Go entered its feature-freeze for the Go 1.11 release. One of the changes for this upcoming release that caught my eye was to the database/sql package. Daniel Theophanes contributed a change that introduces several new counters available via the DB.Stats() method.

If you’re not familiar with it, DB.Stats() returns a DBStat structure containing information about the underlying sql.DB that the method is called on. Up to this point, the struct has had a single field, tracking the current number of open connections to the database. Daniel’s patch introduces a number of …

If you’re someone who keeps up with the Go development cycle, then you’ll know that a couple of weeks ago Go entered its feature-freeze for the Go 1.11 release. One of the changes for this upcoming release that caught my eye was to the database/sql package. Daniel Theophanes contributed a change that introduces several new counters available via the DB.Stats() method.

If you’re not familiar with it, DB.Stats() returns a DBStat structure containing information about the underlying sql.DB that the method is called on. Up to this point, the struct has had a single field, tracking the current number of open connections to the database. Daniel’s patch introduces a number of …

In this article, I’ll explain about the multi version concurrency control (MVCC) of large objects (LOBs) design in the MySQL InnoDB storage engine.  MySQL 8.0 has a new feature that allows users to partially update large objects, including the JSON documents.  …

Please join Percona’s Principal Support Escalation Specialist, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents Troubleshooting MySQL Concurrency Issues with Load Testing Tools on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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Normally, we use benchmarking tools when we are developing applications. When applications are deployed, benchmarks tests are usually too late to help.

This webinar doesn’t cover actual benchmarks, but it does look at how you can use benchmarking tools for troubleshooting. When you need to repeat a situation caused by concurrent client execution, they can be your best …

In this blog post, I will show you how to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to capture per-process metrics in five minutes or less.

While Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) captures a lot of host metrics, it currently falls short providing per-process information, such as which particular process uses a lot of CPU resources, causes Disk IO or consumes a lot of memory.

In our database performance optimization and troubleshooting practice, this information has proven quite useful in many cases: batch jobs taking much more resources than developers would estimate and misconfigured Percona XtraBackup or Percona Toolkit are among the most common offenders.

Per-process metrics information can also be very helpful when troubleshooting database software memory leaks or memory fragmentation.

You …

The UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding.  In the case of UTF-8, it means that storing one code point requires one to four bytes. But, In MySQL’s encoding called “utf8” only stores a maximum of three bytes per code point. In the modern web / mobile applications, we have to support for storing not only language characters but also symbols and emojis, Let me show you below some very weird issues faced using MySQL “utf8” :

mysql> SET NAMES utf8; # just to emphasize that the connection charset is set to `utf8`
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> UPDATE custfeeds.reactions SET reacted = 'super like ' WHERE id = 13015;
Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1  Changed: 1  Warnings: 1

mysql> SELECT reactions FROM custfeeds.reactions WHERE id = 13015;
+-------------+
| reactions   |
+-------------+
| super liked |
+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)


mysql> SHOW WARNINGS; …

Recently we were evaluating MySQL 8 Enterprise for a customer. During our installation (our MySQL Enterprise Edition installations are always RPM based) using RPM file (CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core))  we ended up in a very unusual error, “error: Failed dependencies:pkgconfig(openssl) is needed by mysql-commercial-devel-8.0.11-1.1.el7.x86_64” , This was happening more specifically during the installation of “mysql-commercial-devel-8.0.11-1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm” . So decided to write this post about the error and how we fixed it.

[root@localhost MySQL8-Enterprise-RPM]# rpm -ivh mysql-commercial-server-8.0.11-1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm mysql-commercial-client-8.0.11-1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm mysql-commercial-libs-8.0.11-1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm mysql-commercial-common-8.0.11-1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm mysql-commercial-devel-8.0.11-1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm 
warning: mysql-commercial-server-8.0.11-1.1.el7.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, …