What is MetaData Lock?

MySQL uses metadata locking to manage concurrent access to database objects, and to ensure data consistency when performing modifications to the schema: DDL operations. Metadata locking applies not just to tables, but also to schemas and stored programs (procedures, functions, triggers, and scheduled events).

In this post I am going to cover metadata locks on tables and triggers, that are usually seen by DBAs during regular operations/maintenance.

Kindly refer to these 4 different connections to MySQL Instance:

The screenshot shows that the uncommitted transaction may cause metadata lock to ALTER operations. The ALTER will not proceed until the transaction is committed or rolled-back. What is worse, after the ALTER is issued, any queries to that table (even simple SELECT queries) will be blocked. If the ALTER operation is an …

In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to use multi-threaded LRU flushing to prevent bottlenecks in MySQL.

In the previous post, we saw that InnoDB 5.7 performs a lot of single-page LRU flushes, which in turn are serialized by the shared doublewrite buffer. Based on our 5.6 experience we have decided to attack the single-page flush issue first.

Let’s start with describing a single-page flush. If the working set of a database instance is bigger than the available buffer pool, existing data pages will have to be evicted or flushed (and then evicted) to make room for queries reading in new pages. InnoDB tries to anticipate this by maintaining a list of free pages per buffer pool instance; these are the pages that can be immediately used for placing the newly-read data pages. The target length of the free page list is governed by the …

Using Docker for development is a great way of ensuring that what you develop will be the same that you deploy in production. This is true for almost everything. If you develop on Linux, the above statement holds. If you develop on a different operating system (OSX or Windows) there are several restrictions.

I showed one of those issues in a recent article (MySQL and Docker on a Mac: networking oddity.) When you want to export a port from a service running in the container, the exported port is not available in your mac, but in the virtual machine that runs Docker services. This happens with any application that listens to a port.

The second limitation I found affects only MySQL, and it is related to using volumes. The proper way of achieving data persistence with …

In an industry as fast-growing and interconnected as database technology’s, it’s exciting to track how innovations in one platform can ignite beneficial, rippling effects on other, surrounding systems. At VividCortex we frequently find ourselves faced with opportunities to improve our monitoring solutions based on how database technologies (such as MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc) develop and integrate new upgrades.

When those platforms that we monitor -- already powerful, tried and true -- equip themselves with new features, we work to discover how VividCortex can leverage those features and make our own technology even better. In the case of MySQL 5.7.8’s recent introduction of Generated Virtual Columns, we found the opportunity to use a new feature to make our queries simpler and more elegant, with results …

This blog post discusses what is going on in the MySQL high availability market, and what Percona’s plans are for helping customers with high availability solutions.

One thing I like to tell people is that you shouldn’t view Percona as a “software” company, but as a “solution” company. Our goal has always been to provide the best solution that meets each customer’s situation, rather than push our own software, regardless of whether it is the best fit or not. As a result, we have customers running all kinds of MySQL “flavors”: MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL. We’re happy to help customers be successful with the technology of their choice, and advise them on alternatives when we see a better fit.

One area where I …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.25. See the release notes and changelog for details on this release. Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.25 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

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In this post, we’ll examine why in an initial flushing analysis we find that Performance Schema data is incomplete.

Having shown the performance impact of Percona Server 5.7 patches, we can now discuss their technical reasoning and details. Let’s revisit the MySQL 5.7.11 performance schema synch wait graph from the previous post, for the case of unlimited InnoDB concurrency:

First of all, this graph is a little “nicer” than reality, which limits its diagnostic value. There are two reasons for this. The first one is that page cleaner worker threads are invisible to Performance Schema (see bug 79894). This alone …

As promised, here are my slides from Percona Live Conference in US, Apr.2016 :

• MySQL 5.7 Performance & Scalability Benchmarks (PDF)
• MySQL 5.7 Demystified Tuning (PDF)

Feel free to ask any questions or details you're needing, etc..

Also, not really related to MySQL, but as I was asked so many times about "how did you manage to project your slides from Mac, but drive it an annotate via iPad?" - here is a short HOWTO:

• you need to have Keynote app installed on both your Mac and iPad
• you create your own WiFi Network on your Mac (MenuBar->WiFi->Create Network...)
• once done, connect to …

In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the best practices for configuring optimal MySQL memory usage.

Correctly configuring the use of available memory resources is one of the most important things you have to get right with MySQL for optimal performance and stability. As of MySQL 5.7, the default configuration uses a very limited amount of memory – leaving defaults is one of the worst things you can do. But configuring it incorrectly can result in even worse performance (or even crashes).

The first rule of configuring MySQL memory usage is you never want your MySQL to cause the operating system to swap. Even minor swapping activity can dramatically reduce MySQL performance. Note the keyword “activity” here. It is fine to have some used space in your swap file, as there are …

If you remove a file, file system generally just marks in its metadata that previously occupied blocks can now be used for other files – that operation is usually cheap, unless the file has millions of segments (that is such a rare case, only seen in experimental InnoDB features that Oracle thought was a good idea).

This changes a bit with SSDs – if you update underlying device metadata, it can have smarter compaction / grooming / garbage collection underneath. Linux file systems have ‘discard’ option that one should use on top of SSDs – that will extend the life time of their storage quite a bit by TRIM’ing underlying blocks.

Now, each type of storage device will react differently to that, some of them support large TRIM commands, some of them will support high rate of them, some of them won’t, etc – so one has to take that into account when removing files in production environments.

Currently Linux block …