Oracle University recently unveiled a new online training offering – the MySQL Learning Subscription.  The combination of freely-accessible and compelling paid content makes this an exciting development to me, and should prove valuable to the community and customer base alike.  This post will briefly explore this new MySQL educational resource.

Organization

The subscription content is organized into topical “channels”.  Current top-level channels are:

• Getting Started
• Development
• Administration
• Security

These channels have sub-channels as well – for example, the Getting Started channel includes Getting Started With MySQL New Features and MySQL For Beginners, …

This blog post discusses Orchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager.

What is Orchestrator?

Orchestrator is a replication topology manager for MySQL.

It has many great features:

• The topology and status of the replication tree is automatically detected and monitored
• Either a GUI, CLI or API can be used to check the status and perform operations
• Supports automatic failover of the master, and the replication tree can be fixed when servers in the tree fail – either manually or automatically
• It is not dependent on any specific version or flavor of MySQL (MySQL, Percona Server, MariaDB or even MaxScale binlog servers)
• Orchestrator supports many different types of topologies, from a single …

In this tutorial we will explain how to install LiteCart on an Ubuntu 14.04 VPS with Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL. LiteCart is a free e-commerce, feature rich e-commerce solution. The framework is constructed to be lightweight and easy for developers to modify and build upon. LiteCart relies on the latest HyperText standard HTML 5, the latest CSS 3 for styling, the jQuery framework for client-side dynamics, and the popular web scripting language PHP for server-side dynamics. REQUIREMENTS We will be using our SSD 1 Linux VPS Hosting plan for this tutorial. UPDATE THE SYSTEM Make sure your server is fully […]

In a previous post I took the new JSON datatype and functions for a test drive, using sample data provided by SF OpenData. Today I will extend that example to include indexing.

Introducing Generated Columns

MySQL 5.7 introduces a new feature called generated columns.…

In this blog post, we’ll discuss JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7.

Recently I attended Morgan Tocker’s talk on MySQL 5.7 and JSON at FOSDEM, and I found it awesome.

I learned some great information from the talk. Let me share one of them here: a very useful trick if you plan to store JSON documents in your MySQL database and want to retrieve the documents from some attribute’s values. So let’s look at how to do JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7!

In this short example, I show you how we can speed up this type of search using JSON functions and virtual columns.

This our test table:

Table: test_features
Create Table: CREATE TABLE …

Percona is pleased to announce the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.17.  Released March 7, 2016. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source.

This release is the current GA (Generally Available) stable release in the 2.2 series. It includes multiple bug fixes for pt-table-checksum with better support for Percona XtraDB Cluster, various other fixes, as well as MySQL 5.7 general compatibility. Full details are below. Downloads are available  …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.29-76.2 on March 7, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.29, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.29-76.2 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free …

While looking to optimize your MySQL, you are needing to spot slow/bad queries at a glance and get deep insights about them with ease.

The latest update of MONyog brings new easier ways to find problem SQL in Real-Time, Wayback Machine and sniffer based Query Analyser using Performance Schema. Here is what’s new:

Query Execution Status and Full Table Scan Count
View success/failure status of every query executed and also the number of ‘full table scans’ for queries in a single glance.

The latest update also has an option to switch between Performance Schema and Processlist in Real-Time making it easy for you to enable/disable Performance Schema or Processlist.

Get the latest update now to enjoy these features.Existing customers can download MONyog 6.52 from Customer Area. To evaluate MONyog 6.52, please …

While looking to optimize your MySQL, you are needing to spot slow/bad queries at a glance and get deep insights about them with ease.

The latest update of MONyog brings new easier ways to find problem SQL in Real-Time, Wayback Machine and sniffer based Query Analyser using Performance Schema. Here is what’s new:

Query Execution Status and Full Table Scan Count
View success/failure status of every query executed and also the number of ‘full table scans’ for queries in a single glance.

The latest update also has an option to switch between Performance Schema and Processlist in Real-Time making it easy for you to enable/disable Performance Schema or Processlist.

Get the latest update now to enjoy these features.Existing customers can download MONyog 6.52 from Customer Area. To evaluate MONyog 6.52, please …

This blog post will discuss how to Mitigate DROWN CVE-2016-0800.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave you’ll have heard (or likely to hear about soon) the drown attack. From the Red Hat site:

“A padding oracle flaw was found in the Secure Sockets Layer version 2.0 (SSLv2) protocol. An attacker can potentially use this flaw to decrypt RSA-encrypted cipher text from a connection using a newer SSL/TLS protocol version, allowing them to decrypt such connections. This cross-protocol attack is publicly referred to as DROWN.

Find out more about CVE-2016-0800 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and …