To use Percona XtraBackup with keyring_vault plugin enabled you need to take some special measures to secure a working backup. This post addresses how to backup Percona Server for MySQL with keyring_vault plugin enabled. We also run through the steps needed to restore the backup from the master to a slave.

This is the second of a two-part series on setting up Hashicorp Vault with Percona Server for MySQL with the keyring_vault plugin. First part is Using the keyring_vault plugin with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.

Backing up from the master

First you need to install the latest Percona XtraBackup 2.4 package, in this tutorial I used this version:

[root@mysql1 ~]# xtrabackup --version
xtrabackup: recognized server arguments: --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --log_bin=mysqld-bin …

MySQL has locking capabilities, for example table and row level locking, and such locks are needed to control data integrity in multi-user concurrency. Deadlocks—where two or more transactions are waiting for one another to give up locks before the transactions can proceed successfully—are an unwanted situation. It is a classic problem for all databases including MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle etc. By default, MySQL detects the deadlock condition and to break the deadlock it rolls back one of the transactions.

For a deadlock example, see InnoDB deadlocks

Some misconceptions

There are some misconceptions about deadlocks:

a) Transaction isolation levels are responsible for deadlocks. The possibility of deadlocks is not affected by isolation level. Isolation level changes the behavior of read …

The tutorial guides you through MySQL Database connectivity with Entity Framework
We are facing entity framework database provider compatible with version could not be found for your data connection issue while connecting with MySQL 5.7 and 8.0. Problem with MySql.Data.Entity.EF6.dll missing and not able to connect with Entity framework
As per my requirements, the customer wants to migrate MSSQL to MySQL server. So I want to use any version of MySQL, installed with below configurations and achieve the connectivity  1.MySQL Server : 5.6.41
2.MySQL Connector/Net : 6.9.12
3.Entity Framework : 6.2.0
4.Visual Studio : Professional 2017 Configuration steps are below,
1. Download required versions,
MySQL - https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/windows/installer/5.7.html
Visual Studio - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
2. Once downloaded, …

In another post, I explained how to use the MySQL Query Re-write Plugin to manipulate data that didn’t exactly match SQL standards of MySQL. In this post, I am going to give you another example on how to use a trigger to parse non-conforming data so the data can be written to a MySQL database.

A customer came to me with a problem. They were using third-party software which produced multiple rows of comma-separated data (like a .csv file), but all of the data wasn’t on a single row. Instead, the data consisted of multiple rows of data, separated by commas and with line feeds after each row of data. Here …

There are several possibilities to end up with inconsistent MySQL replication, This could be accidental or intentional. In this blog I would like to discuss on how to identify the inconsistent slaves with master and fix them. I used here pt-table-checksum (to find the difference between master and slave) and pt-table-sync (to sync. between MySQL master and slave) from Percona Toolkit, The detailed documentation of Percona toolkit is available here for your reference. I expect / recommend you to be careful (as I mentioned above, sometimes records are inserted / deleted on MySQL slave intentionally) before using pt-table-checksum to sync. slave with master because rollbacking this task is even more expensive. The objective of this blog is to show you how to find differences between master and …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

This week is clearly what I’d call a “MariaDB week” — plenty of announcements coming from MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation.

It started with Alibaba Cloud and MariaDB Announce the Launch of ApsaraDB RDS for MariaDB TX, which makes Alibaba Cloud the first public cloud to offer the enterprise offering of MariaDB, MariaDB TX 3.0. It is not available yet as of this announcement for rolling out from the interface, but I expect it will be soon. Exciting, as you can already get MariaDB Server on …

Knowing the bits and bytes of an SQL query's order of operations can be very valuable, as it can ease the process of writing new queries, while also being very beneficial when trying to optimize an SQL query.

If you're looking for the short version, this is the logical order of operations, also known as the order of execution, for an SQL query:

1. FROM, including JOINs
2. WHERE
3. GROUP BY
4. HAVING
5. WINDOW functions
6. SELECT
7. DISTINCT
8. UNION
9. ORDER BY
10. LIMIT and OFFSET

But the reality isn't that easy nor straight forward. As we said, the SQL standard defines the order of execution for the different SQL query clauses. Said that, modern databases are already challanaging that default order by applying some optimization tricks which might change the actual order of execution, though they must end up returning …

The majority of DBA’s perform health checks on their databases every now and then. Usually, it would happen on a daily or weekly basis. We previously discussed why such checks are important and what they should include.

To make sure your systems are in a good shape, you’d need to go through quite a lot of information - host statistics, MySQL statistics, workload statistics, state of backups, database packages, logs and so forth. Such data should be available in every properly monitored environment, although sometimes it is scattered across multiple locations - you may have one tool to monitor MySQL state, another tool to collect system statistics, maybe a set of scripts, e.g., to check the state of your backups. This makes health checks much more time-consuming than they should be - the DBA has to put together the different pieces …

Prometheus 2 time series database (TSDB) is an amazing piece of engineering, offering a dramatic improvement compared to “v2” storage in Prometheus 1 in terms of ingest performance, query performance and resource use efficiency. As we’ve been adopting Prometheus 2 in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), I had a chance to look into the performance of Prometheus 2 TSDB. This blog post details my observations.

Understanding the typical Prometheus workload

For someone who has spent their career working with general purpose databases, the typical workload of Prometheus is quite interesting. The ingest rate tends to remain very …

MySQL privilege system is small, almost all administrative tasks can be completed using a handful of privileges. If we exclude generic ones as ALL, SHOW DATABASES and USAGE, create and drop permissions as CREATE USER, DROP ROLE or CREATE TABLESPACE, the number of privileges remaining is really limited: PROCESS, PROXY, RELOAD, REPLICATION_CLIENT, REPLICATION_SLAVE, SHUTDOWN and SUPER.

Having such a reduced list of privileges means that it is very difficult to control what a connected session can do. For example, if a user has privileges to stop replication, it also has privileges to start it, and also to configure it. Actually, it has rights to do almost everything as the privilege required to stop replication is …