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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Recently I was doing some small testing by using EC2 instances on AWS and I noticed the execution time and performance highly depend on which time of the day I am running my scripts. I was using t3.xlarge instance type as I didn’t need many CPUs and memory for my tests, but from time to time I planned to use all the resources for a short time (few minutes), and this is when I noticed the difference.

First, let’s see what AWS says about T3 instances:

T3 instances start in Unlimited mode by default, giving users the ability to sustain high CPU performance over any desired time frame while keeping cost as low as possible.

In theory, I should not have any issues or performance differences. I have also monitored the CPU credit balance and there was no correlation between the balance and the performance at all, and because these were unlimited instances the balance should not have any impact.

At times, when playing with different InnoDB Clusters for testing (I usually deploy all Group Replication instances on the same host on different ports) I find myself stopping the group and doing operations on every instance (e.g. a static reconfiguration). Or I may need to shutdown all instances at once. Scripting is the usual approach, but in addition, MySQL Shell offers a very nice (and powerful) way to integrate custom scripts into the Shell itself to manage an InnoDB Cluster. This is the purpose of MySQL Shell extensions, to create new custom reports and functions and have the flexibility to manage one or more instances at once. I found particularly practical the new plugin feature, introduced in MySQL Shell 8.0.17, that can aggregate reports and …

At times, when playing with different InnoDB Clusters for testing (I usually deploy all Group Replication instances on the same host on different ports) I find myself stopping the group and doing operations on every instance (e.g. a static reconfiguration). Or I may need to shutdown all instances at once. Scripting is the usual approach, but in addition, MySQL Shell offers a very nice (and powerful) way to integrate custom scripts into the Shell itself to manage an InnoDB Cluster. This is the purpose of MySQL Shell extensions, to create new custom reports and functions and have the flexibility to manage one or more instances at once. I found particularly practical the new plugin feature, introduced in MySQL Shell 8.0.17, that can aggregate reports and …

MySQL 8.0 is now part of RedHat Enterprise 8 and other distros based on it like CentOS and Oracle Linux.. This is a very good thing !

However if for any reason you want to use the latest version of MySQL from the Community Repository, you may encounter some frustration if you are not familiar with the new way the package manager works.

Let’s start by verifying our system:

LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID:    OracleServer
Description:    Oracle Linux Server release 8.0
Release:    8.0
Codename:    n/a

We can see that we are on Oracle Linux 8.0. So now let’s try to install MySQL Server:

[root@localhost ~]# dnf install mysql-server
Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:15 ago on Sat 02 Nov 2019 09:54:07 AM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
============================================================================================
  Package                 Arch   Version …

The cloud provides very flexible environments to work with. You can easily scale it up and down by adding or removing nodes. If there’s a need, you can easily create a clone of your environment. This can be used for processes like upgrades, load tests, disaster recovery. The main problem you have to deal with is that applications have to connect to the databases in some way, and flexible setups can be tricky for databases - especially with master-slave setups. Luckily, there are some options to make this process easier. 

One way is to utilize a database proxy. There are several proxies to pick from, but in this blog post we will use ProxySQL, a well known proxy available for MySQL and …