I will describe how NDB handles complex SQL queries in a number of
blogs. NDB has the ability to parallelise parts of join processing.
Ensuring that your queries makes best possible use of these
parallelisation features enables appplications to boost their
performance significantly. It will also be a good base to explain
any improvements we add to the query processing in NDB Cluster.

NDB was designed from the beginning for extremely efficient key lookups
and for extreme availability (less than 30 seconds of downtime per year
including time for software change, meta data changes and crashes).

Originally the model was single-threaded and optimised for 1-2 CPUs.
The execution model uses an architecture where messages are sent
between modules. This made it very straightforward to extend the
architecture to support multi-threaded execution when CPUs …

Angular 9 is in pre-release! Read about its new features in this article and how to update to the latest Angular version in this article.

You can also get our Angular 8 book for free or pay what you can.

This tutorial is designed for developers that want to use Angular 9 to build front-end apps for their back-end REST APIs. You can either use Python & Django as the backend or use JSON-Server to mock the API if you don't want to deal with Python. We'll be showing both ways in this tutorial.

Check out the other parts of this tutorial:

Adding Routing Building Navigation UI Using Angular Material 8

This tutorial deals with REST APIs and routing but you can also start with basic concepts by following this tutorial (part 1 and part 2) instead which you'll build a simple calculator.

If you would like to consume a third-party REST API instead of building your own API, make to check out this tutorial. …

Right-sizing database instances is the process of adjusting your database instances’ size to match the workload generated by the application. In most cases, the incentive to right-size your database instances will be to lower the cloud infrastructure’s costs, ideally without compromising on performance.

In this post we’ll guide you through how to analyze the instance’s used resources, in an effort to identify opportunities to save on your RDS costs.

How to identify memory related down-sizing opportunities

MySQL has a lot of “moving parts” which may contribute to the amount of memory it needs to operate efficiently. Just to list a few of the most impactful factors: fixed-size buffers (query cache, innodb buffer pool size), the database’s workload (query connections, query buffers), replication internals (replication connections, binary log caches) and more.

When looking for down-sizing opportunities, …

Author: Scott Stone

We are pleased to announce the general availability of SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL 8.9. Existing users may upgrade to this version through the Idera Customer Portal. New users may download the trial version from the Idera Website or the Monyog Website.

Rebranded from the popular Monyog product for monitoring performance of MySQL and other MySQL compatible databases, SDM for MySQL is  a comprehensive solution to monitor, alert, and diagnose the availability, health, and performance of MySQL, or MariaDB in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

SQL Diagnostic Manager for MySQL addresses the most critical performance …

In this Angular 9 tutorial, we'll learn to build an Angular 9 CRUD example application going through all the required steps from creating/simulating a REST API, scaffolding a new project, setting up the essential APIs, and finally building and deploying your final application to the cloud.

We'll learn by example how to send GET requests with URL query strings and parameters and process HTTP responses from REST API servers in your Angular 9/8 application using Httplient for fetching and consuming JSON data, how to do error handling for HTTP errors using the RxJS throwError() and catchError() operators, how to retry failed HTTP requests in poor network connections and cancel pending requests using the RxJS retry() and takeUntil() operators, and finally how to deploy the application to Firebase hosting using the latest Angular 8.3+ features. We'll also see how to use Angular services and RxJS Observables, and learn how to set up Angular …

Starting with version 8.0.18 the MySQL Workbench source package finally ships also all our GPL unit and integration tests, which we are using internally to control code quality. For that we had first to replace our old, outdated testing framework by something new and more appropriate. We evaluated quite a few C++ testing frameworks but found them either not to be sufficient or difficult to use. Instead we had something in mind that comes close to the Jasmine framework which is widely used among JS developers. The way it hides all the boring test management details and the clear structure it uses, was quite an inspiration for us and we decided to develop our own testing framework modeled after that.

Casmine – C++17 BDD Testing Framework

Casmine is a C++ unit and integration testing …

Production interruptions are nearly guaranteed to happen at some point in time. We know it so we plan backups, create recovery standby databases, convert single instances into clusters.

Admitting the need for a proper recovery scenario, we must analyze the possible disaster timeline and failure scenarios and implement steps to bring your database up. Planned outage execution can help prepare, diagnose, and recover from the next one. To mitigate the impact of downtime, organizations need an appropriate recovery plan, which would include all factors required to bring service into life.

Backup Management is not as mild as just scheduling a backup job. There are many factors to consider, such as retention, storage, verification, and whether the backups you are taking are physical or logical and what is easy to overlook security. 

The Call For Papers (CFP) for Percona Live 2020 is now open!

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY, January 22.

Percona Live will be held in Austin, Texas from Monday, May 18 through Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at a new venue, the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center. The CFP is open for submissions from November 27, 2019, through January 13  22, 2020. We invite abstracts covering any and all aspects of open source databases, including on-premise, in the cloud, and across the multi-verse!

Hot Open Source Topics for 2020

All Open Source database themes are welcome, but these are our hot topics for 2020:

• Success in the multi-verse: How to optimize performance, architecture, high-availability, replication, and …

MySQL does its best to return requested bytes as fast as possible. However, it needs human help to identify what is important and should be accessed in the first place. Queries, written smartly, can significantly outperform automatically generated ones. Indexes and Optimizer statistics, not limited to the Histograms only, help increase the speed of the query.

Join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer for MySQL Sveta Smirnova on Thurs, Dec 5th from 10 to 11 am PST to learn how MySQL query performance can be improved through the utilization of Developer and DevOps tools. In addition, you’ll learn troubleshooting techniques to help identify and solve query performance issues.

Register Now

If you can’t attend, sign up …

Geo-scale MySQL – or how to build a global, multi-region MySQL cloud back-end capable of serving several hundred million player accounts

This blog introduces a series of blogs we’ll be publishing over the next few months that discuss a number of different customer use cases that our solutions support and that centre around achieving continuous MySQL operations with commercial-grade high availability (HA), geographically redundant disaster recovery (DR) and global scaling.

This first use case looks at a customer of ours who are a global gaming company with several hundred million world-wide player accounts.

What is the challenge?

How to reliably, and fast, cater to hundreds of millions of game players around the world? The challenge here is to serve a game application for a geographically-distributed audience; in other words, a pretty unique challenge.

It requires fast, local response times …