What is ChatOps?

Nowadays, we make use of multiple communication channels to manage or receive information from our systems, such as email, chat and applications among others. If we could centralize this in one or just a few different possible applications, and even better, if we could integrate it with tools that we currently use in our organization, we would be able to automate processes, improve our work dynamics and communication, having a clearer picture of the current state of our system. In many companies, Slack or other collaboration tools is becoming the centre and the heart of the development and ops teams.

What is ChatBot?

A chatbot is a program that simulates a conversation, receiving entries made by the user and returns answers based on its programming.

Some products have been developed with this technology, that allow us to perform administrative tasks, or keeps the team up to date on the current …

Porting data from MongoDB to the MySQL Document Store is very easy.  The example I will use is an example data set from the good folks at Mongo named zips.json that contains a list of US Postal Codes and can be found at http://media.mongodb.org/zips.json for your downloading pleasure.

I copied the file into the Downloads directory on my Unbuntu laptop and then fired up the new MySQL Shell.  After login, I created a new schema creatively named zips with session.createSchema('zips').  When then set the db object to this new schema with the command \use zips.

MariaDB DBAs are accountable for auditing database infrastructure operations to proactively troubleshoot performance and operational issues, MariaDB Audit Plugin is capable of auditing the database operations of both MariaDB and MySQL. MariaDB Audit Plugin is provided as a dynamic library: server_audit.so (server_audit.dll for Windows).  The plugin must be located in the plugin directory, the directory containing all plugin libraries for MariaDB.

MariaDB [(none)]> select @@plugin_dir; 
+--------------------------+
| @@plugin_dir             |
+--------------------------+
| /usr/lib64/mysql/plugin/ |
+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)

There are two ways you can install MariaDB Audit Plugin:

INSTALL SONAME statement while logged into MariaDB, You need to use administrative account which has INSERT privilege for the mysql.plugin table.

MariaDB [(none)]> INSTALL SONAME 'server_audit'; …

In this article I will explain the partial update optimizations for smaller (LOBs) in InnoDB. Small here qualifies the size of the modification and not the size of the LOB.  For some background information about the partial update feature, kindly go through our previous posts on this (here, here and here).…

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting Methodologies for Databases on Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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Have you heard about the USE Method (Utilization – Saturation – Errors)? RED (Rate – Errors – Duration), or Golden Signals (Latency – Traffic – Errors – Saturations)?

In this presentation, we will talk briefly about these different-but-similar “focuses”. We’ll discuss how we can apply them to data infrastructure performance analysis, troubleshooting, and monitoring.

We will use MySQL as an …

Modern applications often feature the use of data in many different languages. This is often true even of applications that only offer a user facing interface in a single language. Many users may, for example, need to enter names which, although using Latin characters, feature diacritics; in other cases, they may need to enter text which contains Chinese or Japanese characters. Even if a user is capable of using an application localized for only one language, it may be necessary to deal with data from a wide variety of languages.

Additionally, increased use of mobile phones has lead to changes in communications behaviour; this includes a vastly increased use of standardized characters intended to convey emotions, often called “emojis” or “emoticons.” Originally, such information was conveyed using ASCII text, such as “:-)” to indicate happiness – but, as noted, this has changed, with many devices automatically converting such …

Let them stay together.

In the last YEARS, I have seen quite often that users, when installing a product such as PXC, instead of spending five minutes to understand what to do just run

iptables -F

  and save.

In short, they remove any rules for their firewall.

With this post, I want to show you how easy it can be to do the right thing instead of putting your server at risk. I’ll show you how a slightly more complex setup like PXC (compared to MySQL), can be easily achieved without risky shortcuts.

iptables is the utility used to manage the chains of rules used by the Linux kernel firewall, which is your basic security tool.
Linux comes with a wonderful firewall built into the kernel. As an administrator, you can configure this firewall with interfaces like ipchains  — which we are not going to cover — and iptables, which we shall talk about.

iptables is …

Since April 19th, when MySQL 8.0 became Generally Available (GA), the MySQL community has been abuzz with excitement over all of the new features and improvements. Many of new features were improvements to performance or monitoring, while others were specifically related to replication. We reviewed Replication Performance Enhancements in MySQL 8 recently. Today’s blog will describe how to set up a basic master-slave configuration with MySQL, using two servers on a single machine.

Replication Defined

MySQL replication is a process in which data from one MySQL database server (the master) is copied automatically to one or more MySQL database servers (the slaves). In the case of multiple slaves, these are usually referred to as a slave cluster. Replication should not to be confused with backup operations. Whereas the aim of backups is to protect the data and/or data structure, the role of replication is typically to spread …

We build highly available and fault tolerant MySQL database infrastructure operations for some of the largest internet properties in this planet,  Our consulting team spend several hours daily researching on MySQL documentation and MySQL blogs to understand what are the best possible ways we can build optimal, scalable, highly available and reliable database infrastructure operations for planet-scale web properties. The most common approach towards building a fault-tolerant system is to make all the components in the ecosystem redundant, To make it even simple, component can be removed and system should continue to operate as expected.  MySQL replication is an proven method to build redundant database infrastructure operations, operationally these systems are highly complex, requiring maintenance and administration of several servers instead of just one, You need Sr. DBAs to manage such systems.

MySQL Group Replication can operate …

What is SysBench? If you work with MySQL on a regular basis, then you most probably have heard of it. SysBench has been in the MySQL ecosystem for a long time. It was originally written by Peter Zaitsev, back in 2004. Its purpose was to provide a tool to run synthetic benchmarks of MySQL and the hardware it runs on. It was designed to run CPU, memory and I/O tests. It had also an option to execute OLTP workload on a MySQL database. OLTP stands for online transaction processing, typical workload for online applications like e-commerce, order entry or financial transaction systems.

In this blog post, we will focus on the SQL benchmark feature but keep in mind that hardware benchmarks can also be very useful in identifying issues on database servers. For example, I/O benchmark was intended to simulate InnoDB I/O workload while CPU tests involve simulation of highly concurrent, multi-treaded environment along with tests for mutex contentions - …