It’s not essential to understand how MySQL® and Percona Server for MySQL build indexes. However, if you have an understanding of the processing, it could help when you want to reserve an appropriate amount of space for data inserts. From MySQL 5.7, developers changed the way they built secondary indexes for InnoDB, applying a bottom-up rather than the top-down approach used in earlier releases. In this post, I’ll walk through an example to show how an InnoDB index is built. At the end, I’ll explain how you can use this understanding to set an appropriate value for innodb_fill_factor.

Index building process

To build an index on a table with existing data, there are the following phases in InnoDB

1. Read phase (read from clustered index and build secondary index entries)
2. Merge sort phase
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I have recently created a new library called libMariaS3 for a couple of teams at MariaDB which provides a simple C API to Amazon’s S3. This was created because we needed a library which could link to GPLv2 software and Amazon’s own library is Apache 2.0 licensed which is incompatible.

It is not a perfect code base because I had a very short amount of time to get the first release out but it was a very fun project to work on. It led me to take a quick look this morning at a couple of other things I have created in the past to see where they are at today.

libdrizzle-redux

Around 5 years ago I worked for HP’s Advanced Technology Group and I worked on several different Open Source projects during that time. One of those projects was called libAttachSQL which was a …

Migrating from Oracle database to open source can bring a number of benefits. The lower cost of ownership is tempting, and pushes a lot of companies to migrate. At the same time DevOps, SysOps or DBA’s need to keep tight SLA’s to address business needs.

One of the key concerns when you plan data migration to another database, especially open source is to how to avoid data loss. It’s not too far fetched that someone accidentally deleted part of the database, someone forgot to include a WHERE clause in a DELETE query or run DROP TABLE accidentally. The question is how to recover from such situations.

Things like that may and will happen, it is inevitable but the impact can be disastrous. As somebody said, “It’s all fun and games until backup fails”. The most valuable asset cannot be compromised. Period.

The fear of the unknown is natural if you are not familiar with new technology. In fact, the knowledge of Oracle …

When creating a MySQL CloudSQL instance, SSL connections are not enforced by default and you get below in the Connections tab of the Google Cloud Platform console.  Is this a problem ?  Some people might think no, but I do not agree with them.  And if I am writing this post, you can probably guess that there is a lot to say about this subject.  Read on for the details.

When creating a MySQL

The Question Recently, a customer asked us:

If we move to using the INI configuration method instead of staging, would password-less SSH still be required?

The Answer The answer is both “Yes” and “No”

No, for installation and updates/upgrades specifically. Since INI-based configurations force the tpm command to act upon the local host only for installs and updates/upgrades, password-less SSH is not required.

Yes, because there are certain commands that do rely upon password-less SSH to function. These are:

• tungsten_provision_slave
• prov-sl.sh
• multi_trepctl
• tpm diag (pre-6.0.5)
• tpm diag --hosts (>= 6.0.5)
• Any tpm-based backup and restore operations that involve a remote node

Summary The Wrap-Up

In …

ProxySQL 2.0.3, released by ProxySQL, is now available for download in the Percona Repository along with an updated version of Percona’s proxysql-admin tool.

ProxySQL is a high-performance proxy, currently for MySQL,  and database servers in the MySQL ecosystem (like Percona Server for MySQL and MariaDB). It acts as an intermediary for client requests seeking resources from the database. René Cannaò created ProxySQL for DBAs as a means of solving complex replication topology issues.

The ProxySQL 2.0.3 source and binary packages available from the …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-6 on May 7, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

This release is based on MySQL 8.0.14 and 8.0.15. It includes all bug fixes in these releases. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-6 is now the current GA release in the 8.0 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 includes all the features available in MySQL 8.0 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.9.1 of its popular FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL focmm.

The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) helps DBA's and System Administrators to manage MariaDB and MySQL database farms. Ops Center makes DBA and Admins life easier!

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MySQL and MariaDB operation tasks. More information about FromDual Ops Center you can find here.

Download

The new FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) can be downloaded from here. How to install and use focmm is documented in the …

As explained in this previous post, it’s now (since 8.0.16) possible to use the MySQL Shell Reporting Framework to monitor MySQL InnoDB Cluster.

Additionally, when a member of the MySQL InnoDB Cluster’s Group leaves the group for any reason, or when a new node is added from a backup, this member needs to sync up with the other nodes of the cluster. This process is called the Distributed Recovery.

During the Distributed Recovery, the joiner receives from a donor all the missing transactions using asynchronous replication on a dedicated channel.

It’s of course also possible to monitor the progress of this recovery process by calculating how many transactions have …

(In the previous post, Part 2, we covered Initial Data Flushing.)

In this blog post, we continue our series of exploring MyRocks mechanics by looking at the configurable server variables and column family options. In our last post, I explained at a high level how data moves from immutable memtables to disk. In this post, we’re going to talk about what happens to that data as it moves through the compaction process.

What is Compaction?

One of the philosophies of MyRocks is “write the data quickly and sort out data organization later”, which is pretty far removed from engines like InnoDB that take the approach of “continuously organize data on disk so it’s optimal as soon as possible”. MyRocks implements its philosophy in a way that is heavily reliant on a process …