Recently we had a customer that had issues with a filled disk on the server hosting their Docker pmm-server environment. They were not able to access the web UI, or even stop the pmm-server container because they had filled the /var/ mount point.

Setting correct expectations

The best way to avoid these kinds of issues in the first place is to plan ahead, and to know exactly with what you are dealing with in terms of disk space requirements. Michael Coburn has written a great blogpost on this matter:

https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/05/04/how-much-disk-space-should-i-allocate-for-percona-monitoring-and-management/

We are now using …

One of the most common questions about privileges in MySQL and MariaDB is how would a user revoke access to a particular table, in a large database with hundreds or thousands of tables, while keeping the rest available. Currently, there is no easy solution. Just grant access to everything else, individually. Not only does this reduce server performance, but is a nightmare to maintain. Reverse privileges solve this and more. And they are simple to explain to new admins too! So I look forward to sharing the knowledge during my presentation at PLE18.

DBAs would benefit from this talk the most. As it is a feature still under development, we are open for input from the community. Tell us what you think we should do to make this feature the best it can be.

What I’m looking forward to…

It will be quite …

This will be a short rant: why is relay_log_space_limit still not dynamic ?

This is obviously a rhetorical question.  I see no reason why this MySQL System Variable is not (yet) dynamic.  Obviously, changing the value of this variable could need replication to be stopped (like for slave_parallel_type, slave_parallel_workers and slave_preserve_commit_order), but at least it would not need a MySQL

The MySQL Development Team is very happy to announce the second 8.0 Maintenance Release of InnoDB Cluster!

In addition to bug fixes, 8.0.13 brings some new exciting features:

• Defining the next primary instance “in line”
• Defining the behavior of a server whenever it drops out of the cluster
• Improved command line integration for DevOps type usage

Here are the highlights of this release!…

Mydbops team has presented at 15th edition Open source India Conference happened at Bangalore on 12-10-2018. Manosh malai ( Senior Devops/ DB Consultant ) and Kabilesh P R ( Co-Founder Mydbops ) has made presentation on “Evolution of DBA in the Cloud Era“. They have shared the value addition that DBA’s can bring into any organisation who have adopted to cloud ( DBaaS ). They have shared a case study of their consulting experience too.

ProxySQL commonly sits between the application and database tiers, in so called reverse-proxy tier. When your application containers are orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes, you might want to use ProxySQL in front of your database servers.

In this post, we’ll show you how to run ProxySQL on Kubernetes as a helper container in a pod. We are going to use Wordpress as an example application. The data service is provided by our two-node MySQL Replication, deployed using ClusterControl and sitting outside of the Kubernetes network on a bare-metal infrastructure, as illustrated in the following diagram:

ProxySQL Docker Image

In this example, we are going to use ProxySQL Docker image maintained by …

The MySQL Development team is very happy to announce that MySQL 8.0.13 is now available for download at dev.mysql.com. In addition to bug fixes there are a few new features added in this release.  Please download 8.0.13 from dev.mysql.com or from the MySQL  Yum,  APT, or SUSE repositories.…

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.13 is the first version to support
Entity Framework Core 2.1 and the third general availability release
of MySQL Connector/NET to add support for the new X DevAPI,which
enables application developers to write code that combines the
strengths of the relational and document models using a modern,
NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/index.html. For more
information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in Connector/NET, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net.

NuGet packages provide functionality …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.13 is a new release version of the MySQL
Connector/C++ 8.0 series.

Connector/C++ 8.0 can be used to access MySQL implementing Document Store or in a traditional way, using SQL queries. It allows writing both C++ and plain C applications using X DevAPI and X DevAPI for C. It also supports the legacy API of Connector/C++ 1.1 based on JDBC4.

To learn more about how to write applications using X DevAPI, see “X DevAPI User Guide”

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

See also “X DevAPI Reference” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/devapi_ref.html

and “X DevAPI for C Reference” at

…

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Node.js is a new Node.js driver for use with the X
DevAPI. This release, v8.0.13, is a maintenance release of the
MySQL Connector/Node.js 8.0 series.

The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines
the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern,
NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing
traditional SQL.

MySQL Connector/Node.js can be downloaded through npm (see
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mysql/xdevapi for details) or from
https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/nodejs/.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/. For more information
about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL Connector/Node.js, and
its usage, see …