I started to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) recently because it seems promising, and my friends from Percona always recommending it to try out, and frankly, at first sight, I like it. There are few things which I am not happy about, but mostly I feel OK – but when it comes to the […]

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Still on Meltdown/Spectre, this time MariaDB Corporation has published Meltdown Vulnerability Impact On MariaDB Server – interesting the comparison between glibc/tcmalloc. Worthy Facebook thread about this too, with a bit of chat about MongoDB performance. Officially MongoDB says a degradation of 10-15%. ScaleGrid has a good post, in which they test MongoDB against …

MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.5 is now available for download from My Oracle Support.

Overview
MCM 1.4.5 contains further stability and usability improvements of MySQL Cluster Manager.

The 1.4.5 release bundles MySQL Cluster 7.5.9. However, since MySQL Cluster 7.5.7, system tables contain sufficient information for MCM to properly support rolling reconfigurations when ndb_cluster_connection_pool is enabled for mysqlds.…

In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of the new MySQL 8.0 RESOURCE_GROUP feature.

One great new feature introduced in MySQL 8.0 that – from my point of view – requires attention is RESOURCE_GROUP.

Short disclaimer: I want to point out that MySQL 8.0 is not GA yet, so it is possible for the MySQL 8.0 RESOURCE_GROUP implementation to change in features and/or behavior.

I’ve used MySQL Community Server 8.0 RC, and everything mentioned below applies to this MySQL version.

In this post, I will quickly look at this feature and summarize what it’s for, how it makes the DBA’s life a little bit easier and highlight some known limitations.

The MySQL documentation describes it as follows:

“MySQL supports creation and …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.6.1. This release contains fixes to bugs found after Percona Monitoring and Management 1.6.0 was released.

Bug fixes

• PMM-1660: QAN for MongoDB would not display data when authentication was enabled.
• PMM-1822: In Metrics Monitor, some tag names were incorrect in dashboards.
• PMM-1832: After upgrading to 1.5.2, it was not possible to disable an Amazon RDS instance on the Add RDS instance dashboard of Metrics Monitor.
• PMM-1907: In Metrics …

Recently, I was working with one of our customer and this is what their requirement as they want to automate this process for converting galera node to async slave and make async slave to galera node without shutting down any server. ———- Here are the steps for how to do that. I assumes that you already have working 3 nodes galera cluster if not, then for the testing purpose you can create it from my previous post. setup-three-nodes-mariadb-galera-cluster-on-single-server-with-mysql-sandbox ———- Btw, there is no matter how many nodes you have. Now, create one test1 table and add 3 records in galera cluster.

MariaDB [nil]> select * from test1;
+------+-----------+
| id   | name      |
+------+-----------+
|    1 | nilnandan |
|    2 | joshi     |
|    3 | niljoshi  |
+------+-----------+ …

Starting with MySQL 8.0.4, we are changing the default authentication plugin for MySQL server from mysql_native_password to caching_sha2_password. Correspondingly, libmysqlclient will now use caching_sha2_password as the default authentication mechanism, too.

Why did we do it?

The advantage of mysql_native_password is that it support challenge-response mechanism which is very quick and does not require encrypted connection.…

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 (PXC) on January 24, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.38-26.23 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.38
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.6.38
• Galera Replication library 3.21

All Percona software is open-source and free. …

The news that the latest MySQL 8.0.4 RC (release candidate) is available is indeed exciting. Unfortunately for users of the auth_socket plugin, dangers lie in wait!

Back in November 2015, I reported Failure of auth_socket authentication with sha256_password as default. This prevents users that identify with the

auth_socket

 plugin from logging in after SHA256 authentication has been made the default authentication method. With the …

Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents Troubleshooting MySQL Crashes on January 25, 2018, at 10:00 am PST (UTC -8) / 1:00 pm EST (UTC -5).

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This webinar is for every MySQL user! In this talk, I won’t focus on how to analyze core files, read the source code or set breakpoints. Instead, I will focus on techniques that are available to anyone, even a novice.

Many tutorials, including my own, written based on Roel Van de Paar’s video, suggest how to create and analyze core files created at the time of a crash. While this …