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The Performance Schema and sys schema are great for investigating what is going on in MySQL including investigating performance issues. In my work in MySQL Support, I have a several times heard questions whether a peak in the InnoDB Data File I/O – Latency graph in MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) or some values from the corresponding tables and view in the Performance Schema and sys schema are cause for concern. This blog will discuss what these observations means and how to use them.

The Tables and Views Involved

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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.61 as well as MariaDB Connector/C 3.0.6 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.6 all stable releases. See the release notes and changelogs for details. Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.61 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster? Download MariaDB Connector/C 3.0.6 Release Notes Changelog […]

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From driver and rider locations and destinations, to restaurant orders and payment transactions, every interaction on Uber’s transportation platform is driven by data. Data powers Uber’s global marketplace, enabling more reliable and seamless user experiences across our products for riders, …

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

Don’t wait, submit a talk for Percona Live Europe 2018 to be held in Frankfurt 5-7 November 2018. The call for proposals is ending soon, there is a committee being created, and it is a great conference to speak at, with a new city to boot!

Releases

• A big release, MySQL 8.0.12, with INSTANT ADD COLUMN support, BLOB optimisations, changes around replication, the query rewrite plugin and lots more. Naturally this also means the connectors get bumped up to the 8.0.12, including a nice new …

Did you know that Continuent Clustering supports having clusters at multiple sites world-wide with either active-active or active-passive replication meshing them together?

Not only that, but we support a flexible hybrid model that allows for a blended architecture using any combination of node types. So mix-and-match your highly available database layer on bare metal, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, etc.

In this article we will discuss using the Active/Passive model to scale reads worldwide.

The model is simple: select one site as the Primary where all writes will happen. The rest of the sites will pull events as quickly as possible over the WAN and make the data available to all local clients. This means your application gets the best of both worlds:

• Simple deployment with no application changes needed. All writes …

I studied some macroeconomics in school.  I’m still interested in it 20 years hence.  I was recently in a discussion about query optimization and how to prioritize what to fix first.  My pen and paper started graphing things, and here we are with an abstract thought.  Bear with me.  This is for entertainment purposes, mostly, but may actually have a small amount of value in your thought processes around optimizing queries.  This is a riff on various supply, demand graphs from macroeconomics.

In the graph below:

• Axes:
  • Vertical: number of distinct problem queries
  • Horizontal: Database “query load capacity” gains (from optimization)
• Lines:
  • LIRQ (long and/or infrequently run queries)
  • SFRQ (short, frequently run queries)
  • AC: Absolute capacity (the point at which …

The world of application and its related services are migrating more towards cloud, because of availability, Elasticity, Manageability etc. While moving the entire stack we need to be very cautious while migrating the database part.

Migration of DB servers is not a simple lift and shift operation, Rather it would require a proper planning and more cautious in maintaining data consistency with existing DB server and cloud server by means of native replication or by using any third party tools.

The best way to migrate the existing MySQL database to RDS, in my opinion, is by using “logical backup“. Some of the logical backup tools as below,

Mysqldump — single threaded (widely used)
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In this post, I provide an illustration of how to use Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) tool to set up external dictionaries in MySQL to support ClickHouse. Although I use MySQL in this example, you can use any PDI supported source.

ClickHouse

ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented DBMS (columnar database management system) for online analytical processing. Source: wiki.

Pentaho Data Integration

Information from the Pentaho wiki: Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle) is the component of Pentaho responsible for the Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processes. Though ETL tools are most frequently used in data warehouses environments, PDI can also be used for other purposes:

• Migrating data between …

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. One of the common questions that we get is “What is Multi-AZ and how it’s different from Read Replica, do I need both?”.  I have tried to answer this question in this blog post and it depends on your application needs. Are you looking for High Availability (HA), read scalability … or both?

Before we go to into detail, let me explain two common terms used with Amazon AWS.

Region – an AWS region is a separate geographical area like US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), EU (London) etc. Each AWS Region has multiple, isolated locations known as Availability Zones.

Availability Zone (AZ) – AZ is simply one or more data …

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With the introduction of MySQL Shell 8.0, the second major version of the new command-line tool for MySQL, a new and rich featured prompt was introduced. Unlike the prompt of the traditional mysql command-line client, it does not just say mysql> by default. Instead it comes in a colour coded spectacle.

The default prompt is great, but for one reason or another it may be that you want to change the prompt. Before getting to that, let’s take a look at the default prompt, so the starting point is clear.

The Default Prompt

An example of the default prompt can be seen in the screen shot below. As you can see, there are several parts to the prompt, each carrying its information.

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