Author: Robert Agar

In the complicated world of database management, a lot of data needs to be assimilated by those responsible for keeping the systems healthy and operational. Management and the database team can be challenged trying to stay on top of all the moving parts required to keep things running smoothly. This task can prove to be quite difficult when faced with a large number of databases which may encompass several diverse platforms.

There are many different database products from which to choose. Some are more appropriate for particular uses which may play a role in your decision to go with one solution over another. Open-source databases are very popular, and MySQL has a large lead in the number of users it supports. It is the top-ranked open-source database in terms of popularity. When …

Database Administration is a tough, often ungrateful job. Especially if you run a 24/7 business-critical MySQL or MariaDB deployment.

MySQL has proven to be a remarkably solid database which supports billions of dollars in revenue. On some level this very solidity creates a false sense of security. There are many things that can wrong at any given time, whether that is a change to your app, a bug in the database, hardware failure or just simply running out of disk space.

Percona recently conducted a poll: “What keeps you up at night?”

Not surprisingly, “Downtime/HA” is very high on the list.

While there are many challenging issues and tasks that a DBA must deal …

Please join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev as he presents “Performance Analyses and Troubleshooting Technologies for Databases” on Wednesday, August 7th, 2019 at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7).

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Have you heard about the USE Method (Utilization – Saturation – Errors), RED (Rate – Errors – Duration) or Golden Signals (Latency – Traffic – Errors – Saturations)?

In this presentation, we will talk briefly about these different-but-similar “focuses” and discuss how we can apply them to data infrastructure performance analysis troubleshooting and monitoring.

We will use MySQL as an example, but most of this talk applies to other database technologies as well.

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Data is an invaluable asset to any organisation and every data should not be viable to all DB users. I had a requirement from one of our Support client to hide (mask) a few columns to the end user. Those columns contains sensitive information like payment details and mobile numbers.

In this blog post I am going to explain the how data masking features in Maxscale can be benefitted in such use case.

Maxscale Masking

Masking filter was introduced on the Maxscale 2.1 version . Below is a simple scenario. The columns “name” and “mobile” from the table student has to be masked.

[root@labs7.mydbops.com ~]# maxscale --version                                                           MaxScale 2.3.6

#Table Structure 

mysql> show create table student\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
       Table: …

This week is our pleasure to remind following shows where you can find MySQL & MySQL Community experts: 

• Kansas Linux Fest (KLF), Wichita, Kansas City, US, August 9-11, 2019

  • Do not miss to listen MySQL talks given by David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager as follows:
    • "MySQL Without the SQL - Oh My!"
    • "The Proper Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database for Busy Linux Administrators"
  • Watch the organizers' website for timing and place!
• FrOSCon 2019, Snkt. Augustin, Germany, August 10-11, 2019
  • Come to talk to us to our MySQL booth and do not miss the talk by Carsten Thalheimer, the MySQL …

Database Reliability Engineering – How to decide RAID for your Database Infrastructure ? What is RAID?

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (Originally, the term RAID was defined as Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). The name indicates that the disk drives are independent, and are multiple in number. RAID storage uses multiple disks in order to provide fault tolerance, to improve overall performance, and to increase storage capacity in a system. This is in contrast with older storage devices that used only a single disk drive to store data.How the data is distributed between these drives depends on the RAID level used. The main advantage of RAID, is the fact that, to the operating system the array of disks can be presented as a single disk.RAID is fault tolerant because in most of the RAID level’s data is redundant in multiple disks, so …

This tutorial explains about MySQL UPSERT command with the help of simple examples. An upsert is a smart operation that turns into an INSERT or UPDATE whichever is applicable. Also, it is an atomic transaction, which means completed in a single step. Let’s understand – If a record is new, then UPSERT triggers an INSERT. [...]

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This tutorial explains about MySQL UPSERT command with the help of simple examples. An upsert is a smart operation that turns into INSERT or UPDATE whichever is applicable. Also, it is an atomic transaction, which means complete in a single step. Let’s understand – If a record is new, then UPSERT triggers an INSERT. But, […]

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This tutorial explains MySQL DATE data type and walks you through some of the standard date functions. It will help you use and handle dates more efficiently with MySQL. MySQL DATE data type The DATE is a temporal data type for accessing and setting dates by applications. It accepts DATE values only in YYYY-MM-DD format. [...]

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This tutorial explains about MySQL DATE data type and walks you through some of the standard date functions. It will help you use and handle dates more efficiently with MySQL. MySQL DATE is a temporal data type for accessing and setting dates by applications. It accepts DATE values only in YYYY-MM-DD format. And MySQL doesn’t […]

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