In this blog post, we’ll look at some tips on how to configure Aurora RDS parameters.

I was recently deploying a few Aurora RDS instances, a process very similar to configuring a regular RDS instance. I noticed a few minor differences in the way you configure Aurora RDS parameters, and very few articles on how the commands should be structured (for RDS as well as Aurora). The only real literature available is the official Amazon RDS documentation.

This blog provides a concise “how-to” guide to quickly change Aurora RDS parameters using the AWS CLI. Aurora retains the parameter group model introduced with RDS, with new instances having the default read only parameter groups. For a new instance, you need to create and allocate a new parameter group (this requires a DB reboot). After that, you can apply changes to …

This blog discusses newly added options for Percona XtraBackup 2.4.8 and how they can impact your database backups.

To avoid issues with MySQL 5.7 skipping the redo log for DDL, Percona XtraBackup has implemented three new options (

xtrabackup --lock-ddl

,

xtrabackup --lock-ddl-timeout

,

xtrabackup --lock-ddl-per-table

) that can be used to place MDL locks on tables while they are copied.

So why we need those options? Let’s discuss the process used to get there.

Originally, we found problems while running DDLs: Percona XtraBackup produced corrupted backups as described in two reports:

• …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.32, as well as the recent releases of as MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.1 (beta), MariaDB Connector/J 2.1.0 and MariaDB Connector/J 1.6.3. See the release notes and changelog for details. Download MariaDB 10.0.32 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository […]

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In my last post about big MySQL deployments, I am quickly mentioning that InnoDB compression is allowing dividing disk usage by about 4.3 on a 200+ TiB dataset.  In this post, I will give more information about this specific use case of InnoDB table compression and I will share some statistics and learnings on this system and subject.  Note that I am not covering InnoDB page compression which is

Today is my last day in Asia (China and Taiwan), and between the sessions I had the time to code a small proof-of-concept for people that are asking how they could read their writes on all nodes and ensure the read consistency with their last write ?

The usual (and easier) answer to this particular question is to read on the same host you just wrote. But currently MySQL provides you all the elements to force a consistent read across all the nodes of a group.

Since MySQL 5.7.5, we introduced session_track_gtidsand in 5.7.6 we also introduced  GTIDs context to the OK packet (session tracker) (WL#6128 and WL#6972). So we can use this implementation in …

One of the new graphs added to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is saturation metrics. This blog post explains how to use the information provided by these graphs.

You might have heard about Brendan Gregg’s USE Method  (Utilization-Saturation-Errors) as a way to analyze the performance of any system. Our goal in PMM is to support this method fully over time, and these graphs take us one step forward.

When it comes to utilization, there are many graphs available in PMM. There is the CPU Usage graph: …

Recently I wrote a blog post on how to use ProxySQL with 8.0.2 dmr

This blog post was related to the change we implemented in the Group Replication’s monitoring (performance_schema tables) and how sys schema should be changed to modify the view used by ProxySQL according.

However, I used my labs machines that I was using for different purposes too and some changes I made hid a problem that avoid ProxySQL to work with the new defaults in MySQL 8.0.2. Thank you Andy for discovering this.

In fact the new collation default (utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci) is not yet supported by ProxySQL …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.36-82.1 on August 1, 2017 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.6.36, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.34-79.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in …

In this blog, we’ll look at group replication and how it deals with flow control (FC) and replication lag. 

Overview

In the last few months, we had two main actors in the MySQL ecosystem: ProxySQL and Group-Replication (with the evolution to InnoDB Cluster). 

While I have extensively covered the first, my last serious work on Group Replication dates back to some lab version years past.

Given that Oracle decided to declare it GA, and Percona’s decision to provide some level of Group Replication support, I decided it was time for me to take a look at it again.

We’ve seen a lot of coverage already too many Group Replication topics. There are articles about Group Replication and performance, Group Replication and basic functionalities (or lack of it like automatic node provisioning), Group Replication and ProxySQL, and so on.

But one question kept coming up over and over in my …

There are a lot of different reasons behind this error. Sometime, you may not see the exact issue on the error message. You have to dig deeper to identify the exact cause. It may take a lot of time and energy to debug this error. I have encountered this error many times, so based on my experience and research on this issue; I have gathered and given the following possible reasons and workarounds to fix this error.

Error Message:

Can't connect to local MySQL server

Reason 1:

MySQL Server is not running on the server.

Workaround 1:

Check MySQL server is running on the server.

MySQL process name                    : mysqld

MySQL default …