Recently, at Percona Live Europe 2019, Dimitri Kravchuk from Oracle mentioned that he observed some unclear drop in performance for MySQL on an ext4 filesystem with the latest Linux kernels. I decided to check this case out on my side and found out that indeed, starting from linux kernel 4.9, there are some cases with notable (up to 2x) performance drops for ext4 filesystem in direct i/o mode.

So what’s wrong with ext4? It started in 2016 from the patch that was pushed to kernel 4.9: “ext4: Allow parallel DIO reads”. The purpose of that patch was to help to improve read scalability in direct i/o mode. However, along with improvements in pure read workloads, it also introduced regression in intense mixed random read/write scenarios. And it’s quite weird, but this issue had not been …

Discover the new Continuent Tungsten Replicator (AMI) – the most advanced & flexible replication engine for MySQL, MariaDB & Percona Server, including Amazon RDS MySQL and Amazon Aurora

We’re excited to announce the availability on the Amazon Marketplace of a new version of the Tungsten Replicator (AMI).

Tungsten Replicator (AMI) is a replication engine that provides high-performance and improved replication functionality over the native MySQL replication solution and provides the ability to apply real-time MySQL data feeds into a range of analytics and big data databases.

Tungsten Replicator (AMI) builds upon …

MySQL Cluster is an open-source distributed in-memory database. It combines linear scalability with high availability, providing in-memory real-time access with transactional consistency across partitioned and distributed datasets. It was developed to support scenarios requiring high-availability (99.999% or more) and predictable query time. Testing such a system is achieved via many interconnected pieces ranging from a large set of automated tests and manual exploratory testing. This post explores an overview of the testing methodologies we use and the current challenges we face.

Gaming, banking, telcos, and online services all are powered by fully-redundant and fault-tolerant software systems. At the heart of those systems, you can find MySQL Cluster — a distributed in-memory database having a minimum of five-9s availability (around 5 minutes a year). This open-source database provides nearly-linear …

dbForge Fusion is a line of Visual Studio plugins designed to simplify database development and enhance data management capabilities. This line comprises three tools: dbForge Fusion for SQL Server, dbForge Fusion for MySQL, and dbForge Fusion for Oracle. We are happy to announce new updates for each of these tools which come with many improvements […]

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A user defined table and its corresponding  index data, in InnoDB, is  stored in files that have an extension .ibd. There are two types of tablespaces, general (or shared) tablespace and file-per-table.  For shared  tablespaces, data from many different  tables and their corresponding indexes may reside in a single .ibd…

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The Call For Papers for SCaLE 18x ends soon and I would love to have your talk on MySQL be part of the MySQL track! The track is usually on the Friday of the show!

I am 'curating' the MySQL track again and would love to have you talk on MySQL.  Do you have a story about using MySQL, some trick admin skills you would like to share, a beginners guide to X & MySQL, or a case study? Well then, please submit.

What is SCaLE?  Well it is roughly 5,000 people in Pasadena, California next March 5-8 2020 at the convention center in the heart of the City.  It is the only big open source in Southern California and features multiple tracks on subjects ranging from AI to how to work …

SQL UPPER function is used for converting all the characters in the source string to Uppercase characters. If any number is present in the string, then it remains unaffected. SQL UPPER() function converts a string to the upper-case.

SQL upper() Function

Suppose you have the online shopping website. Customers visit the website and provide the necessary information while creating the login account.

Each customer provides few compulsory information such as first name, last name, phone number, email address, and residential address.

Each customer is different, so you cannot expect the similar format for all inputs.

For example, you get a following entries in an SQL table.

We do not see all words following the consistent pattern.

It does not look good as well if you have to share the report daily to higher management for all newly enrolled customers.

The SQL UPPER …

The London Open Source Database Meetup is hosting me on December 4th -RSVP
and I will be talking about  New MySQL Features and a Brief Look into 2020!

MySQL has made lot of progress with version 8.0 and it has become the fasted adopted new version of MySQL in history. The new CI/CD release pattern had been delivering a lot of new features on a regular basis that you may have not noticed. There is JSON Document Validation thanks to the good people at JSON-schema.org, random passwords, hash joins, explain analyze, constraint checks, and more. So if you need to caught up this is you chance and if you are wondering what is in the near term future this is your opportunity.All opinions expressed in this blog are those of Dave Stokes who is …

Introduction While developing a Spring Boot application is rather easy, tuning the performance of a Spring Boot application is a more challenging task, as, not only it requires you to understand how the Spring framework works behind the scenes, but you have to know what is the best way to use the underlying data access framework, like Hibernate for instance. In a previous article, I showed you how easily to optimize the performance of the Petclinic demo application. However, by default, the Petclinic Spring Boot application uses the in-memory HSQLDB database, which... Read More

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