Author Andriy Lysyuk.

Introduction

In the previous post, we described a situation when the UnDrop For InnoDB toolkit can be used to recover an accidentally dropped table with innodb_file_per_table=OFF.
In this post, we’ll show how to recover MySQL tables or databases if innodb_file_per_table is ON. This option tells InnoDB to store each table with a user in a separate data file.

For the recovery test, we’ll use the same sakila database that we used in the previous post.

root@test:/var/lib/mysql/sakila# ls …

Author Andriy Lysyuk.

Introduction

Unfortunately, human mistakes are inevitable. That’s how life is. Wrong DROP DATABASE or DROP TABLE may destroy critical data on the MySQL server. Obviously, backups would help, however they’re not always available. This situation is frightening but not hopeless. In many cases it’s possible to recover almost all the data that was in the database or table.
Let’s look at how we can do it. The recovery plan depends on whether InnoDB kept all data in a single ibdata1 or each table had its own tablespace. In this post we will consider the case when innodb_file_per_table=OFF. This option assumes that all tables are stored in a common file, usually located at /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1.

One Wrong Move, And The Table’s Gone

For our scenario, we use …

Most modern websites and applications ground on data collection, storage, and analysis. Databases take an active part in building the entire Web environment. That’s why it is crucial to ensure correct data retrieval from databases and appropriate ways of data manipulation. To modify your data properly, you will need to execute SQL queries. The current […]

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We are glad to inform our MySQL users, that a new version of our Visual Studio plugin for MySQL database development, dbForge Fusion for MySQL, v.6.6, has been just rolled out. Connectivity The new version features a massive update of connectivity options implemented to ensure that you can easily connect and work with the latest […]

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When you insert data into a database and run COMMIT you expect things to be there: Atomically, Consistent, Isolated and Durable

, like Codd commanded us 40 years ago, but also quickly. There is a surprising amount of sophistication being poured into this, but since I do not want to shame MongoDB and Redis developers in this post, I am not going to talk about that much in this place.

We are instead trying to understand what our databases are doing all day, from the point of view of the storage stack.

That Brendan Gregg Graphics

Here is your performance tooling (sans EBPF) as shown by Brendan Gregg in various iterations. We are interested into the various blues in this graphic, VFS and downwards. The most detailed information of what goes on in the blue stack is given by blktrace. It’s an I/O request recorder.

Unfortunately, blktrace …

MySQL Shell is the advanced MySQL client, which has many excellent features. In this blog, I am going to explain the MySQL shell commands “\show” and “\watch”. Both commands are very useful to monitor the MySQL process. It provides more insights into the foreground and background threads as well. 

Overview

“\show” and “\watch” are the MySQL shell commands, which can be executed using the Javascript (JS), Python (Py), and SQL interfaces. Both commands are providing the same information, but the difference is you can refresh the results when using the command “\watch”. The refresh interval is two seconds. 

• \show: Run the specified report using the provided options and arguments.
• \watch: Run the specified report using the provided options and arguments, and refresh the results at regular intervals.

Below are the available options you can use with the “\show” …

I’ve already provided some solutions to connect to your MDS instance, using MySQL Router, SSH tunnel, … but one of the best way if you have multiple instance to manage, is to use a VPN.

This post summarize the steps on how to deploy Open VPN and configure your VCN to use it.

So, in OCI, we have already some MDS & Compute instances deployed, this is how the dashboard looks like:

OpenVPN Deployment

We can start by deploying our OpenVPN instance using OCI’s Marketplace:

And you follow the wizard by adding your administrator username and password:

An important step is to use the existing VCN and place the OpenVPN in the public subnet:

And you create the instance:

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From MySQL 5.7, we had a Multi-threaded Slave (MTS) Applier mechanism called LOGICAL_CLOCK to overcome the problems of parallel replication within a database.

To further improve the parallelisation mechanism, from MySQL 8 (5.7.22) we have write-set replication, so before going further , lets look at the difference between Logical clock (LC) and Writeset.

LOGICAL_CLOCK

Transactions that are part of the same binary log group commit on a master are applied in parallel on a slave. The dependencies between transactions are tracked based on their timestamps to provide additional parallelisation where possible.

WRITESET

Write-set is a mechanism to track independent transactions that can be executed in parallel in the slave. Parallelising on write sets has potentially much more parallelism than logical_clock ,since it does not depend …

The goal of this blog post is to explain the various types of transaction isolation levels available in MySQL. After reading the blog, you will be able to explain dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, and the concept of phantom rows as well.

What is the Isolation Level in MySQL?

Isolation (I) is one of the properties from ACID. It defines how each transaction is isolated from other transactions and is a critical component of application design. As per the SQL:1992 standard, InnoDB has four types of Isolation levels. Below, I have listed the types in order, and each transaction isolation level provides better consistency compared to the previous one.

• READ-UNCOMMITTED
• READ-COMMITTED
• REPEATABLE-READ – ( MySQL’s DEFAULT )
• SERIALIZABLE

You can change the isolation level using the variable “transaction_isolation” at runtime. As transaction isolation changes can …

Hi and thanks to all who attended my webinar on Tuesday, January 26th titled Using PMM to Identify & Troubleshoot Problematic MySQL Queries!

Like we do after all our webinars, we compile the list of questions that were answered verbally and also those that were posed yet remained unanswered since we ran out of time during the broadcast.  Before we get to the questions, I wanted to make sure to include a link to the RED Method for MySQL Queries by Peter Zaitsev, Percona’s CEO:

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Hi Michael, you suggested that table create and update times should be ignored. Surely these values come from information_schema.tables? Does that not reflect what I would see if I …