Want to setup InnoDB Cluster and be prepared for a Disaster Recovery scenario? Get ready:

Here’s a way to set up InnoDB Cluster using the 3 environments, on Oracle Linux 7.2, 5.7.19 MySQL Commercial Server, MySQL Shell 8.0.3 DMR, MySQL Router. As this is the first blog post for a complete disaster recovery scenario of InnoDB Cluster, we’ll also be installing MySQL Enterprise Backup.

If you’re new to InnoDB Cluster then I’d highly recommend looking at the following to understand how it works and what Group Replication, Shell & Router are.:

• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-innodb-cluster-production-deployment.html
• …

Sometimes when you are using a MySQL InnoDB Cluster, you might encounter some performance issue because one node becomes dramatically slow.

Why ?

First of all, why ? A node can apply the transactions slower than the other nodes for many different reasons. The most frequents are for example, slower disks (remember, it’s advised to have nodes with the same specifications), but if you are using a RAID controller with a BBU, during the learning cycle, the write performance can decrease by 10 or even more. Another example could be an increase of IO operations that will flood the full IO capacity of the system. Making a local backup or sharing the server resources with some other components could lead in such behavior.

Flow Control

To avoid to have a node lagging to much behind and try to sustain the same throughput all over the cluster, Group Replication uses a flow control mechanism ( …

Introduction Last week, one of my blog readers asked me of a way to reuse the @Id mapping so that it won’t have to be declared on each an every entity. Because this is a good opportunity to introduce @MappedSuperclass, I decided to answer the question with a blog post. Domain Model Assuming we are … Continue reading How to inherit properties from a base class entity using @MappedSuperclass with JPA and Hibernate →

The MySQL Enterprise Audit plug-in is part of the MySQL Enterprise Edition (available through a paid license). Basically, Enterprise Audit tracks everything that is happening on your MySQL server, and can be used to protect/detect the misuse of information, and to meet popular compliance regulations including HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the PCI Data Security Standard.

MySQL Enterprise Audit uses the open MySQL Audit API to enable standard, policy-based monitoring and logging of connection and query activity executed on specific MySQL servers. Designed to meet the …

Here's something that has puzzled me for several weeks.
Right after migrating  MySQL from 5.6 to 5.7, we started experiencing random xtrabackup failures on some, but not all, of our slaves.
The failures were only happening when taking an incremental backup, and it would always fail on the same table on each slave, with errors similar to the following:

171106 13:00:33 [01] Streaming ./gls/C_GLS_IDS_AUX.ibd
InnoDB: 262144 bytes should have been read. Only 114688 bytes read. Retrying for the remaining bytes.
InnoDB: 262144 bytes should have been read. Only 114688 bytes read. Retrying for the remaining bytes.
InnoDB: 262144 bytes should have been read. Only 114688 bytes read. Retrying for the remaining bytes.
InnoDB: 262144 bytes should have been read. Only 114688 bytes read. Retrying for the remaining bytes.
InnoDB: 262144 bytes should have been read. Only 114688 bytes read. Retrying for …

Authors: Sunny Bains, Jiamin Huang (University of Michigan)

What is Transaction Scheduling?

Locking is one of the most popular mechanisms for concurrency control in most database systems, including Oracle MySQL. One major question, however, seems to have been overlooked by all database vendors:

Q: When multiple transactions are waiting for a lock on the same object, which one(s) should get the lock first?…

There’s a GTID_SUBTRACT function, and the manual shows how to write your own cheap GTID_UNION, but not a GTID_INTERSECT. Fortunately it’s easy to write your own, as it’s just subtracting twice.

CREATE FUNCTION GTID_INTERSECT(g1 TEXT, g2 TEXT)
RETURNS TEXT DETERMINISTIC
RETURN GTID_SUBTRACT(g1, GTID_SUBTRACT(g1, g2));

What use is it?

SET @slave_executed = '33738f8c-c1a5-11e7-8fc3-0a002700000f:1-681577,
421d139e-04b9-11e7-b702-0050569935dc:1-13764443,
52b9a949-d79d-11e3-80dd-0050568d193e:1-1207378:1207380-1261803:1261805-1267098:1267100-1267416:1267418-1589733';

SET @master_executed = '33738f8c-c1a5-11e7-8fc3-0a002700000f:1-730294,
421d139e-04b9-11e7-b702-0050569935dc:1-13764443,
52b9a949-d79d-11e3-80dd-0050568d193e:1-1207378:1207380-1261803:1261805-1589733';

SET @master_purged = '33738f8c-c1a5-11e7-8fc3-0a002700000f:1-681582,
…

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

This week we saw the closing of the CFPs for MariaDB’s user conference, M18. Peter Zaitsev and I submitted for Percona (don’t forget that there is also a developer’s conference tacked on to this event). We don’t have high expectations of getting a talk there, but hey – you never know! I submitted a talk on running MariaDB in the cloud (either hosted on Amazon RDS or Rackspace) or in your own compute instance. Another talk on capacity planning seemed to make sense as well. …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.1 on Thursday, November 2nd, 2017. This release contains fixes to bugs found after Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.0 was released. It also introduces two important improvements. We replaced the btrfs file system with XFS in AMI and OVF images, and the Prometheus dashboard has been enhanced to offer more information.

For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management.

Improvements

• PMM-1567: The  …

Notes/errata/updates for Chapter 9:
See the official book errata at http://tahaghoghi.com/LearningMySQL/errata.php – Chapter 9 includes pages 297 – 350.

In the fourth paragraph of this chapter, starting with “Most applications don’t need superuser privileges for day-to-day activities” they give you some reasons why you want to create users without the SUPER privilege. There are better reasons than the book gives, which are at the MySQL Manual page for the SUPER privilege.

In the section “Creating and Using New Users” (p. 300) they say “There’s no limit on password length, but we recommend using eight or fewer characters because this avoids problems with system libraries on some platforms.” You should ignore this, this book …