I’ve previously evaluated MariaDB’s 10.1 implementation of data encryption at rest (https://www.pythian.com/blog/data-encryption-rest), and recently did the same for Oracle’s implementation (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-tablespace-encryption.html) in their MySQL 5.7.

First, here’s a walkthrough of enabling encryption for MySQL 5.7:

1. Install keyring plugin.

1a. Add the following to the [mysqld] section of /etc/my.cnf:

View the code on Gist.

1b. Restart the server:

...
service mysqld restart

1c. Verify:

... …

Today we are introducing a new MySQL Server feature called MySQL Document Store. Make sure to watch the announcement video on the MySQL YouTube Channel!

Find out more by looking into the following documents.

• Using MySQL as a Document Store – Manual
• X DevAPI – Tutorial for JavaScript
• X DevAPI – Tutorial for Python
• …

We are pleased to announce the first release of MySQL Connector/J 6.0! This is a new branch of development, which breaks from some of the traditions of the very stable and very mature Connector/J 5.1 branch. We have combed through lots of code and refactored it in order to support development of future features including our X DevAPI implementation and support for X Protocol. This work manifests in a number of visible changes, including revising the growing set of connection and build properties.

Beginning with Connector/J 6.0, we are moving away from having one jar that supports all versions of Java. Instead we are building one jar/package for every supported version of Java. This simplifies the build process as well as lots of code that was required to …

Different types of languages deal with this “value” in diverse ways. You can have a more comprehensive list of what NULL can mean on this website. What I like to think about NULL is along the lines of invalid, as if some sort of garbage is stored there. It doesn’t mean it’s empty, it’s just mean that something is there, and it has no value to you.

Databases deal when storing this type in a similar way, PostgreSQL treats it as “unknown” while MySQL treats it as “no data“.

Both databases recommend using \N to represent NULL values where import or exporting of data is necessary.

When …

So hopefully you’ve read the first 5 blogs in this 6 part series you should have a good introduction to
•    Part 1 – What we heard from the MySQL Community (keep it solid, and innovate faster) and our change to new release model those requirements.…

Percona Live is humming along, and we had quite a whirlwind keynote session this morning. Bill Nye the Science Guy gave an amazing talk, Bill Nye’s Objective – Change the World, on how the process of science and critical thinking can help us not only be positive about the challenges we face in our world today, but also help us to come up with the big ideas we need to solve them. He discussed many topics, from how his parents met, their involvement in science (his mother worked on the Enigma Code in World War 2!), working at Boeing as an engineer, his involvement with Carl Sagan, and how he has worked to help harness renewable energy through solar panels, a solar water heater, and skylights at his own …

In my last I was looking for a way to do performance monitoring and I stumbled upon Prometheus. Prometheus is much more than monitoring a single node service. Anyway let’s get the idea of gathering metrics using MySQL as example.

This how a simple configuration of Prometheus could look like:

global: 
  scrape_interval: 1m
  scrape_timeout: 10s
  evaluation_interval: 1m

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: mysql
    scheme: http
    target_groups:
    - targets: 
        - '10.17.148.31:9104'
      labels:
        zone: mysql

Every minute Prometheus accesses 172.17.148.31:9104/metrics (/metrics is a Prometheus convention) and labels the result with zone=mysql. Querying the data you can use the labels.

This is a simple configuration. The fun of Prometheus is to have a lot of targets/jobs.

Let’s have a look at our specific endpoint: …

We’re moving along on the first day at Percona Live Data Performance Conference 2016, and I was able to attend a lecture from Intel’s Ken LeTourneau on Performance of Percona Server for MySQL on Intel Server Systems using HDD, SATA SSD, and NVMe SSD as Different Storage Mediums. In this talk, Ken reviewed some benchmark testing he did using MySQL on various types of storage mediums. This talk looked at the performance of Percona Server for MySQL for Linux running on the same Intel system, but with three different storage configurations. We looked at and compared the performance of:

1. a RAID of HDD
2. a RAID of SATA SSD
3. a RAID of NVMe SSD

In the talk,  Ken covered the hardware and system …

Today was day one of the Percona Live Data Performance Conference! The day began with some excellent keynote speakers and exciting topics, and the packed room was eager to hear what our speakers had to say!

Peter Zaitsev, CEO, Percona
Percona Opening  Keynote
Peter kicked it off today by thanking the sponsors, the speakers, the Percona Live committee, and the attendees for contributing and participating in this year’s event. It has grown and changed quite a bit from its initial creation. Peter emphasized how this a gathering of members of a community, one that changes and adapts, and discusses and debates many different points of views and opinions. No longer is …

Yesterday I had a 3-hour tutorial about MyRocks at Percona Live. Now slides are available.