In the last few years there have been several examples of major service problems affecting businesses data: outages causing data inconsistencies; unavailability or data loss, and worldwide cyberattacks encrypting your files and asking for a ransom.

Database-related incidents are a very common industry issue- even if the root cause is not the database system itself. No matter if your main relational system is MySQL, MariaDB, PostgresQL or AWS Aurora -there will be a time where you will need to make use of backups to recover to a previous state. And when that happens it will be the worst time to realize that your backup system hadn’t been working for months, or testing for the first time a cluster-wide recovery.

Forget about the backups, it is all about recovery!

Let me be 100% clear: the question is not IF data …

We are glad to announce the 1.2.0 release of the  Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster.

The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster automates the lifecycle and provides a consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster instance. The Operator can be used to create a Percona XtraDB Cluster, or scale an existing Cluster, and contains the necessary Kubernetes settings.

The Operator simplifies the deployment and management of the Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes-based environments. It extends the Kubernetes API with a new custom resource for deploying, configuring and managing the application through the whole life cycle.

The Operator source code is available …

If you need to do bulk importing into InnoDB Cluster, it is certainly possible to do so by using any of:

• mysqldump logical dump
• tab separated dump, exported with SELECT..INTO OUTFILE statement or by using mysqldump with --tab option. And import with LOAD DATA..INFILE

Unfortunately both imports will add load to instances and to channels interconnecting instances: data imported on the primary instance needs to be replicated to the rest of instances. And the bigger the data to import, the higher the load (and this could end up affecting performance). The import operation could be batched to reduce load, and Group …

If you need to do bulk importing into InnoDB Cluster, it is certainly possible to do so by using any of:

• mysqldump logical dump
• tab separated dump, exported with SELECT..INTO OUTFILE statement or by using mysqldump with –tab option. And import with LOAD DATA..INFILE

Unfortunately both imports will add load to instances and to channels interconnecting instances: data imported on the primary instance needs to be replicated to the rest of instances. And the bigger the data to import, the higher the load (and this could end up affecting performance). The import operation could be batched to reduce load, and Group Replication allows at least …

As people are getting back from vacations and application traffic is going back and hitting database backend hard, it is a good time to think about performance and prepare for the winter holiday spike. Whenever you are on-premise or in the cloud, questions are the same:

• Are we satisfied with the current MySQL performance?
• How much traffic are we currently serving?
• Is there enough capacity to stay stable as traffic increases?
• What would be the best way to stay cost-effective as we grow?

Unfortunately, the answers are not so obvious and require a thorough performance analysis. However, there is a chance that your problem has already been solved by someone else. I do not mean StackOverflow (which is a beautiful place, by the way), but some higher level questions which people usually discuss at conferences, and we have several of them ongoing or just a couple of weeks away.

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Dear Dave,

My DBA told me that an account I use to talk to my MySQL database instance has TWO passwords! How does that happen? Do I have to provide both passwords every time? 

Sincerely,

A Confused User Who Does Not Want to Type Two Passwords All The Time


Dear Confused User,

Dual Password Support was added in MySQL 8.0.14 and it is a very handy thing. User accounts can now have a primary password and a secondary password. Image a scenario where you are rotating passwords as directed by your company policy but it takes a while to change the credentials in all your code despite your best EMACS magic. The ability to keep the servers up and active as your do your security due diligence is very helpful.
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This presentation is a summary of the MySQL 8.0.17 new features.

The post MySQL 8.0.17 - New Features Summary first appeared on dasini.net - Diary of a MySQL expert.

Author: Robert Agar

A constant in the computing world is that it is always evolving and offering new challenges and opportunities. Software solutions come and go with some becoming staples in the business community while others barely cause a ripple as they disappear into the ether. Take MySQL as an example. From its humble beginnings in 1994, the platform has grown to become the most popular SQL database in 2019. If you are a database professional, chances are very good that you work with MySQL regularly.

The popularity of the database platform has not gone unnoticed by the unscrupulous entities that engage in cybersecurity attacks with nefarious intentions. Whether acting …

Percona is happy to announce the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.27-31.39 on September 18, 2019. Binaries are available from the downloads section or from our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.27-31.39 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.27-30
• Codership WSREP API release 5.7.27
• Codership Galera library 3.28

All Percona software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• PXC-2432: PXC was not …

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Oracle announced this week at Oracle OpenWorld that it has introduced a new cloud offer called Oracle Cloud Free Tier. As the name suggest, it allows you to run a few limited instances in Oracle Cloud for free. I will in this blog show how you can use the free tier to setup a MySQL test instance.

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If you want to read more about Oracle Cloud Free Tier see https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ and the FAQ at https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/faq.html.

The first step is to sign up for the cloud service which you do by opening …