In Part 1 of "SFTP virtual users with ProFTPD and Rails", I introduced ProFTPD's virtual users and presented my annotated proftpd.conf that I used to integrate virtual users with a Rails application. Here in Part 2, I'll show how we generate virtual user credentials, how we display them to the user, as well as our SftpUser ActiveRecord model that does the heavy lifting.

Let's start at the top with the SFTP credentials UI. Our app's main workflow actually has users doing most of their uploads through a sweet Plupload widget. So, by default, the SFTP functionality is hidden behind a simple button sitting to the right of the Plupload widget:

The user can click that button to open the SFTP UI, or the Plupload …

All set, here’s the recording!

Hey there everyone!

Another informative and fun-filled #DBHangOps coming up this Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT). Join the discussion and contribute your experience on the following topics!

• Plugins for MySQL
  • Which do you use?
  • Are there plugins that you want?
• Kernel Parameters in Linux for MySQL, specifically:
  • Linux VM settings
  • Transparent Huge Pages
• InnoDB buffer pool size and settings
  • What works in your environment and why?
• And If there’s time, information about the TokuDB storage engine in …

#DBHangOps for 6/26/13 is all done! Check out the recording below:

Hey everybody!

#DBHangOps is back this week at a slightly earlier time this Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 at 11:00am paciifc (18:00 GMT) . We’ll have special guest Shlomi Noach talking about the open source tools he’s developed to improve a DBA’s day-to-day work.

Be sure to check out the #DBHangops twitter search, the DBHangops Twitter Feed, or this blog post to get a link for the google hangout on Wednesday!

Thanks and see all of you there!

Overview

First off, the important news. Tungsten Replicator 2.1.0 was released today.
You can download it and give it a try right now.

Second, I would say that I am quite surprised at how much we have done in this release. The previous release (2.0.7) was in February, which is just a few months ago, and yet it looks like ages when I see the list of improvements, new features and bug fixes in the Release Notes. I did not realized it until I ran my last batch of checks to test the upgrade from the previous release, which I hadn’t run for quite a long time. It’s …

Join us at the next MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day hosted by SkySQL & MariaDB in Berlin on June 18th

It’s a beautiful day in Berlin today and we’re putting the final touches to next week’s MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, which takes place on Tuesday June 18th in the facilities provided by Bitkom in Berlin Mitte.

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Join us at the next MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day hosted by SkySQL & MariaDB in Berlin on June 18th

It’s a beautiful day in Berlin today and we’re putting the final touches to next week’s MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, which takes place on Tuesday June 18th in the facilities provided by Bitkom in Berlin Mitte.

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Annnd all set! Check out the recording for the topics below:

Hello everyone!

We missed out on the last meeting time for #DBHangOps due to some conflicts, but we’re looking to come back strong this Wednesday, June 12th 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT). Come join the discussion and contribute your experience on:

• Upgrading to MySQL 5.6
  • Any issues or gotchas?
• MySQL Python Utilities
  • How do you use them?
• MySQL patches
  • Patches you use
  • Patches you want
• Interesting or valuable Linux kernel settings

Be sure to check out the #DBHangops twitter search, the DBHangops Twitter …

I got a question a while ago that I thought was quite simple, but turned into an interesting discussion: How much hard disk space does a database take up?

As it happens, there's a simple answer and a much, much more involved (yet ill-defined) answer, and which one you choose depends on what you think goes into a database and how very, very pedantic you are.

The Simple Answer

You can query the size of table and index data using Information Schema or SHOW TABLE STATUS. The columns DATA_LENGTH and INDEX_LENGTH contain the number of bytes for the table and index data respectively. You can construct simple queries based on that data, or do a quick search on the web for more interesting queries (For example, Peter Zaitsev of Percona wrote a post …

Here’s the recording!

Heyo!

Now that we’ve gone through the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo review and had an amazing turnout to talk about it, it’s time to open up the discussion around things that DBAs want to talk about and need to be conscientious of. Join us on Wednesday at 12:00pm PDT (19:00 GMT) to take part in the discussion and share your knowledge and experience with the following topics:

• Filesystems and MySQL — Which do you use and why?
  • Do you handle I/O alignment? How do you do it?
  • Scheduler changes?
• Nagios checks! — Any new checks you’ve added recently?
• The worst settings in MySQL that you always change
• What are the most important variables to you, and what do you set them to?
• What will be important variables in 5.6 that …

Original images from Flickr user jenniferwilliams

One of our clients, for various historical reasons, runs both MySQL and PostgreSQL to support their website. Information for user login lives in one database, but their customer activity lives in the other. The eventual plan is to consolidate these databases, but thus far, other concerns have been more pressing. So when they needed a report combining user account information and customer activity, the involvement of two separate databases became a significant complicating factor.

In similar situations in the past, using earlier versions of PostgreSQL, we've written scripts to pull data from MySQL and dump it into PostgreSQL. This works well enough, but we've updated …