Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.5 on March 4, 2019. Downloads are available from our download site and from apt and yum repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, it drives down backup costs while …
[Read more]Join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Amazon RDS on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019, at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 2:00 PM EST (UTC-5).
In this hour-long webinar, Peter describes the differences between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Afterward, Peter will go through scenarios detailing how each is handled manually and in Amazon RDS.
He will review the pros and cons of managing HA and DR in the traditional …
[Read more]Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Get the latest insights on MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year.
SQL vs. NoSQL
As any database administrator knows, the first question you have to ask yourself is whether to use a SQL or NoSQL database for your application. …
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IS NULL, IS NOT NULL, truthiness among
other assertions on MySQL and PostgreSQL
People like to complain about JavaScript, how
can one thing be equal to the other, i.e. null ==
undefined evaluates to true unless you use
the triple equals ===. Other dynamic typed languages
have its peculiarities, such as Ruby where
0 == true evaluates to true, the reason
for Ruby is that considers 0 as a value and any
value evaluates to true.
How about SQL? The answer is… it depends.
Which database are you using?
Some may be more forgiving, like MySQL doing casts for you all over the place, or more strict like PostgreSQL where you can only compare the truthiness of something of the same type.
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Replication Methods:
File-based Replication:
The traditional method is based on replicating events from the master’s binary log, and requires the log files and positions in them to be synchronized between master and slave.
GTID Replication:
The newer method based on global transaction identifiers (GTIDs) is transactional and therefore does not require working with log files or positions within …
[Read more]In Generic binary Installation method, we are extracting compressed tar files of MySQL and later we can do customization for MySQL setup as per our requirement. Like having different data directory, log directory etc.
MySQL Generic Binaries can be used to install MySQL on Unix/Linux platforms.
MySQL Installation has a dependency on the libaio library. Make sure that is there on a server before mysql install.
Create a mysql user and group, which we will use as a service account for the mysql server.
shell> groupadd mysql
shell> useradd -r -g mysql -s /bin/false mysql
Extract MySQL binaries TAR to mysql base directory for example in /mysql dir
Create require directories and set appropriate permissions.
shell> cd mysql
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[Read more]Point In Time Recovery - is a nightmare for DBAs if the MySQL clusters are self managed. It was 10PM, after had my dinner I was simply watching some shows in YouTube. And my phone was ringing, the customer on other side. Due to some bad queries, one of the main table get updated without where clause. Then suddenly everyone joined the call and asking me to bring the data back. That day it took 6 to 8 Hours to bring the data. Yes, every DBAs will do one or two biggest mistakes. In my carrier I would say this was that day. So here is my MySQL PITR the fastest way with DevOps.
Where I failed in this DR setup?
--master-data, So I don’t know how to start applying
binlogs.
I few months ago, I wrote about using the Django framework with MySQL 8. There are also other Python frameworks that are worth considering. In this blog, I will look at using SQLAlchemy with MySQL 8.
In order for you to be able to use MySQL 8 with SQLAlchemy, you need three pieces of software: MySQL Server, MySQL Connector/Python, and SQLAlchemy. I will go through the installations, then I will look at a code example.
Information
The examples in this blog uses MySQL Server 8.0.15, MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.15, and SQLAlchemy 1.2.18. It should be possible to reuse the instructions with other MySQL versions as well, except in older MySQL versions you …
[Read more]The latest enhancement in ProxySQL v2.0.0 is the native support of Galera Cluster. No more need to use an external script within the scheduler like explained also in this post of ours.
This document will cover how to take an advantage of the new feature and integrate ProxySQL with Percona XtraDB Cluster to monitor galera node status and read-write split performed by ProxySQL. To illustrate we will use a cluster of 3 nodes, below are the details:
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172.16.1.112
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db-node01
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172.16.1.113
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db-node02
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MySQL changed the timestamp format in the log files in MySQL 5.7.
Since then, I have a few times seen questions about the new
format, and how to change the time zone that is used. Latest in a
comment to my blog about log_slow_extra in
8.0.14, where the question was what T and Z in the timestamp
(for example 2019-01-31T07:24:06.100447Z) means. In
this blog, I will discuss the timestamp format and show you how
you can change the time zone used.
Examples of the timestamps from the MySQL error log when
restarting MySQL (click to enlarge).
The MySQL 5.7 Change
In MySQL 5.7 it was decided to make two …
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