This may be a “duh” post for some, but I had to post this because I didn’t find the answer in typical places like stackoverflow when I had the issue.  I recently worked on a project to expand database capacity by deploying new MySQL installations with memory, config, and disk space tweaks by backup/restore, replication topology change and, and failover.  I did not notice that the old servers had “explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=OFF”.  After restoring a binary backup and starting the replication thread on the new systems I got this error in the replication thread (column name in error corresponds to examples further down).

ERROR 1048 (23000): Column 'ts' cannot be null

Below, I will provide a synopsis to show statements that caused the error and why a simple global variable change fixed the issue.  First, a sample table definition.

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Please join Percona’s Solution Engineer, Dimitri Vanoverbeke as he presents Amazon Migration Service: The Magic Wand to Migrate Away from Your Proprietary Environment to MySQL on Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4).

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In this talk, we will learn about the Amazon Migration Tool. The talk will cover the possibilities, potential pitfalls prior to migrating and a high-level overview of its functionalities.

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When you write programs that uses a database backend, it is necessary to use a connector/API to submit the queries and retrieve the result. If you are writing Python programs that used MySQL, you can use MySQL Connector/Python – the connector developered by Oracle Corporation.

Now there is a new book dedicated to the usage of the connector: MySQL Connector/Python Revealed, which is published by Apress. It is available in a softcover edition as well as an eBook (PDF, ePub, Mobi).

The book is divided into four parts spanning from the installation to error handling and troubleshooting. …

In this post we will see a case study of a Galera Cluster migration to AWS Aurora and quick solution to the replication issue. A friend received an error in…

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MySQL replication has evolved a lot in 5.6 ,5.7 and 8.0. This presentation focus on the changes made in parallel replication. It covers MySQL 8.0. It was presented at Mydbops database meetup on 04-08-2016 in Bangalore.

Introduction

The goal of this article is to evaluate and highlight the main similarities and differences between the MySQL Server Database and the MariaDB Server Database. We’ll look into performance aspects, security, main features, and list all aspects which need to be considered before choosing the right database for your requirements.

Who is using MySQL and MariaDB?

Both MySQL and MariaDB publish a respectful list of customers who are using their database as their core data infrastructure.

For MySQL, we can see names such as Facebook, Github, YouTube, Twitter, PayPal, Nokia, Spotify, Netflix and more.

For MariaDB, we can see names such as Redhat, DBS, Suse, Ubuntu, 1&1, Ingenico and more.

Comparing features - MySQL vs MariaDB

Many new and exciting features like Windows Functions, Roles or Common Table Expressions (CTE) are probably worth mentioning, but won’t be mentioned …

MySQL load balancers becomes a trend setters in Market for High availability and Scalability. They offer variety of solutions for database. What can be the best load balancer ? It varies from case to case. This presentation was made at Mydbops meetup on 04-08-2018 covers the basics of load balancers with their advantages/ disadvantages and use cases.

This year again, the MySQL Team is eager to participate in the Oracle Open World conference. This is a great opportunity for our engineers and the entire MySQL Team to highlight what we’ve done, and also what we are working on. Another reason to be excited this year is our new participation to Code One, the Oracle developer focused conference. Oracle Code One will include a full track dedicated to MySQL.

This is very good news for everybody attending, from DBAs to developers, as we will offer even more great content ! This year, in both events, we will highlight how NoSQL+SQL=MySQL.

Our MySQL Engineers will deliver fantastic sessions about …

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

The call for submitting a talk to Percona Live Europe 2018 is closing today, and while there may be a short extension, have you already got your talk submitted? I suggest doing so ASAP!

I’m sure many of you have heard of cryptocurrencies, the blockchain, and so on. But how many of you realiize that Coinbase, an application that handles cryptocurrency trades, matching book orders, and more, is powered by MongoDB? With the hype and growth in interest in late 2017, Coinbase has had to scale. They gave an excellent talk at MongoDB World, titled MongoDB & Crypto Mania (the video is worth a watch), and they’ve also written a blog post, …

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MySQL has since version 5.7 had support for progress information for some queries. As promised in my previous post, I will here discuss how you can use that to get progress information for ALTER TABLE on InnoDB tables.

Background and Setup

Progress information is implemented through the Performance Schema using the stage events. In version 8.0.12 there are currently seven stages that can provide this information for  ALTER TABLE statements on InnoDB tables. In MySQL 8, it is easy to list the stages capable of reporting progress information by using the …