The MySQL Group Replication (GR) feature is a multi-primary update anywhere or single-primary replication plugin for MySQL with built-in conflict detection and resolution, automatic distributed recovery, and group membership.

Its goal it is to make high-availability (HA) simple with off-the-shelf hardware, not only to new applications but also existing ones – that was one of the motivations of the single-primary mode.…

As listed in the release announcement of the latest MySQL InnoDB Cluster release, 8.0.14 brings exciting new features! This blog post integrates a series detailing every single new feature added. We’ll follow up now with two very desired and useful features: “Checking current cluster configuration options” and “Changing cluster members or global cluster options ‘live'”.…

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The newest release of MySQL 8.0.14 includes the ability to control the number and location of UNDO tablespaces using SQL. Users can now manage UNDO tablespaces using SQL from the MySQL client.

Background

More undo tablespaces help busy systems handle a larger number of read-write concurrent transactions by having more rollback segments available to provide undo logs to those transactions. …

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The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.14 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days.

If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is the best-in-class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets and is part of MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition subscriptions. You are invited to give it a try using our 30-day free customer trial. Go to http://www.mysql.com/trials, or contact Sales at http://www.mysql.com/about/contact. …

The encrypted binary log file format introduced in MySQL version 8.0.14 was designed to allow a “manual” decryption of the file data when the value of the key that encrypted its file password is known.

Each encrypted binary (or relay) log file is composed by an encrypted binary log file header and the encrypted binary log content (the file data).…

Starting in version 8.0.14, MySQL server can encrypt all new binary and relay log files on disk. In order to do so, you just need to enable the new binlog_encryption option (and also ensure that you have a keyring).…

The MySQL Track for the Southern California Linux Expo 17x has been published! On Friday march 9th you can learn about the MySQL Document Store, How to Deploy MySQL in Kubernetes, lean how Facebook achieves consistency with MySQL, MySQL Query Optimization, Analytics with MySQL, and MySQL Security. 

There are actually four days of the expo but the MySQL Track is on Friday, but you should stay around for the full weekend.  And MySQL is a sponsor and we will have a big booth with lots of swag, Be sure to stop by to say hello!

A common challenge with continuously deployed applications is that new and modified SQL queries are constantly being introduced to the application. Many companies choose to use a database monitoring system (such as PMM) to identify those slow queries. But identifying slow queries is only the start – what about actually optimizing them?

In this post we’ll demonstrate a new way to both identify and optimize slow queries, by utilizing the recent integration of Percona Monitoring and Management with EverSQL Query Optimizer via Chrome browser extension. This integration allows you to identify slow queries using PMM, and optimize them automatically using EverSQL Query Optimizer.

Optimizing queries with PMM & EverSQL

We’re using PMM to monitor our MySQL …

This log buffer edition overs cloud, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Cloud

On December 4, 2018 Microsoft’s Azure Database for Open Sources announced the general availability of MariaDB. This blog intends to share some guidance and best practices for alerting on the most commonly monitored metrics for the service.

Technology allows manufacturers to generate more data than traditional systems and users can digest. Predictive analytics, enabled by big data and cloud technologies, can take advantage of this data and provide new and unique insights into the health of manufacturing equipment and processes.

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As listed in the release announcement of the latest MySQL InnoDB Cluster release, 8.0.14 brings exciting new features! This blog post is the first of a series detailing every single new feature added, starting by: “Changing cluster topology modes ‘live‘”.…