As people are getting back from vacations and application traffic is going back and hitting database backend hard, it is a good time to think about performance and prepare for the winter holiday spike. Whenever you are on-premise or in the cloud, questions are the same:

• Are we satisfied with the current MySQL performance?
• How much traffic are we currently serving?
• Is there enough capacity to stay stable as traffic increases?
• What would be the best way to stay cost-effective as we grow?

Unfortunately, the answers are not so obvious and require a thorough performance analysis. However, there is a chance that your problem has already been solved by someone else. I do not mean StackOverflow (which is a beautiful place, by the way), but some higher level questions which people usually discuss at conferences, and we have several of them ongoing or just a couple of weeks away.

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Dear Dave,

My DBA told me that an account I use to talk to my MySQL database instance has TWO passwords! How does that happen? Do I have to provide both passwords every time? 

Sincerely,

A Confused User Who Does Not Want to Type Two Passwords All The Time


Dear Confused User,

Dual Password Support was added in MySQL 8.0.14 and it is a very handy thing. User accounts can now have a primary password and a secondary password. Image a scenario where you are rotating passwords as directed by your company policy but it takes a while to change the credentials in all your code despite your best EMACS magic. The ability to keep the servers up and active as your do your security due diligence is very helpful.
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This presentation is a summary of the MySQL 8.0.17 new features.

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Author: Robert Agar

A constant in the computing world is that it is always evolving and offering new challenges and opportunities. Software solutions come and go with some becoming staples in the business community while others barely cause a ripple as they disappear into the ether. Take MySQL as an example. From its humble beginnings in 1994, the platform has grown to become the most popular SQL database in 2019. If you are a database professional, chances are very good that you work with MySQL regularly.

The popularity of the database platform has not gone unnoticed by the unscrupulous entities that engage in cybersecurity attacks with nefarious intentions. Whether acting …

Percona is happy to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.27-31.39 on September 18, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.27-31.39 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.27-30
• Codership WSREP API release 5.7.27
• Codership Galera library 3.28

All Percona software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• PXC-2432: PXC was not …

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Oracle announced this week at Oracle OpenWorld that it has introduced a new cloud offer called Oracle Cloud Free Tier. As the name suggest, it allows you to run a few limited instances in Oracle Cloud for free. I will in this blog show how you can use the free tier to setup a MySQL test instance.

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If you want to read more about Oracle Cloud Free Tier see https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ and the FAQ at https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/faq.html.

The first step is to sign up for the cloud service which you do by opening …

There are numerous cloud providers these days. They can be small or large, local or with data centers spread across the whole world. Many of these cloud providers offer some kind of a managed relational database solution. The databases supported tend to be MySQL or PostgreSQL or some other flavor of relational database. 

When designing any kind of database infrastructure it is important to understand your business needs and decide what kind of availability you would need to achieve. 

In this blog post, we will look into high availability options for MySQL-based solutions from one of the largest cloud providers - …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.45-28.36 on September 17, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.45-28.36 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.45-86.1
• Codership WSREP API release 5.6.44
• Codership Galera library 3.28

All Percona software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• PXC-2432: PXC was not updating …

Is “that” time of the year … when autumn is just around the corner and temperature start to drop.
But is also the time for many exciting conferences in the MySQL world.
We have the Oracle Open world this week, and many interesting talks around MySQL 8.
Then in 2 weeks we will be at the Percona live Europe in Amsterdam, which is not a MySQL (only) conference anymore (https://www.cvent.com/events/percona-live-open-source-database-conference-europe-2019/agenda-6321c2468b1b43328f97212f3e53f4de.aspx).
Percona had move to a more “polyglot” approach not only in its services but also during the events.
This is obviously an interesting experiment, that allow people from different technologies to meet and discuss. At the end of the day it is a quite unique …

We (Codership, the original and continued developers and experts of Galera Cluster) participated in Austin 2019, and so it would have seemed remiss if we did not also show up at the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2019 (that was a mouthful!) happening in Amsterdam September 30 – October 2 2019. We have a booth in the expo hall at the Hilton Amsterdam Schipol Airport, so come drop by and say hello!

While we do not have any talks accepted in the main program, we do have a tutorial that involves using Galera Cluster and MariaDB Server on the first day at 9am by Colin Charles.  View the whole …