MySQL InnoDB is more and more popular. The adoption of it is even faster than I expected. Recently, during my travel in Stockholm, Sweden, a customer asked me what was the best practice to backup a cluster.

Since my interlocutor was a customer, the obvious choice is to use MySQL Enterprise Backup (known as MEB). Of course any other physical backup should be also fine.

The customer told me he was using cron to schedule his backup and was only using full backups… That’s perfect. So I told him that there is nothing complicated and that the cron job should something like:

mysqlbackup --with-timestamp --backup-dir /backup  backup

Of course, I do not recommend the use of --user clusteradmin --password=xxxxxin the cronjob but configure your crendentials using …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.43-84.3 on January 29, 2019 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

This release merges changes of MySQL 5.6.43, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.43-84.3 is now the current GA release in the 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• A sequence of LOCK TABLES FOR BACKUP and STOP SLAVE …

Replication topologies, whether master-slave or group replication setups, may be composed of servers using different MySQL versions.

In MySQL 8.0.14, each transaction’s immediate and original server versions are now visible in the binary log as session variables. These two new variables, fully managed by the replication infrastructure, are used to support cross-version replication by transmitting the MySQL server release numbers associated with each transaction through the replication topology:

• original_server_version stores the MySQL Server release number of the server where a transaction was originally committed (for example, 80014 for a MySQL 8.0.14 server instance).

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Whenever we talk about the scalability of databases its end up with a lot of discussions and effort to implement. Some of you may even argue that it is a bad idea to auto scale the transactional databases. But the pace of innovation in databases — particularly on a world with public cloud, is breathtaking. AWS Aurora is a game changer database engine in DBaaS for Open Source Databases. It provides performance, reliability, availability, and Scalability. With Aurora features like custom endpoints and loadbalancing across replicas, on can explore some interesting use cases. In this post, we will discuss how we solved a customer’s problem by using scalability features of Aurora. We will focus on provisioned Aurora on AWS, not Aurora Serverless.

We have a customer who was doing all the reporting and massive read …

Please join Percona’s Senior Technical Manager, Alkin Tezuysal, and Percona’s Percona XtraDB Cluster Lead, Krunal Bauskar as they present their talk, Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios and their Recovery on Wednesday, January 30th, 2019, at 8:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 11:00 AM EST (UTC-5).

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Percona XtraDB Cluster (a.k.a PXC) is an open source, multi-master, high availability MySQL clustering solution. PXC works with your MySQL / …

There are over 250 new features in MySQL 8.0. The MySQL Manual is very good, but verbose. This is a list of new features in short bullet form. We have tried very hard to make sure each feature is only mentioned once.…

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The latest release of MySQL 8.0 introduces a new dynamic system variable @@innodb_buffer_pool_in_core_file which lets you omit the Buffer Pool’s memory content when generating a core file.

This change is an adaptation of a patch contributed by the Facebook team. We would like to thank and acknowledge this important and timely contribution by Facebook.…

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EverSQL is a platform that intelligently tunes your SQL queries by providing query optimization recommendations, and feedback on missing indexes. This is the second post of our EverSQL series, if you missed our introductory post take a look there first and then come back to this article.

We’ll use the Stackoverflow data set again as we did in our first post.

Diving into query optimization

We’ll grab the worst performing query in the list from PMM and optimize it. This query builds a list of the top 50 most recent posts which have a score greater than two, and involves joining two large tables – posts and comments. The original runtime of that query is …

As we showed on the introduction post, in MySQL 8.0.14 Group Replication was once again improved. Now the developer can specify which is the consistency level of all group transactions or even of a single transaction.

Note that this is about consistency in terms of the global synchronization of transactions in the group.…

Dear MySQL Users,

A new GA (general availability) version of MySQL Connector/C++ has
been made available: MySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.12 GA. The MySQL
Connector/C++ provides a C++ API for connecting client applications to
the MySQL Server 5.5 or newer.

You can download the production release at:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/1.1.html

MySQL Connector C++ (Commercial) will be available for download on the
My Oracle Support (MOS) website. This release will be available on
eDelivery (OSDC) in next month’s upload cycle.

The MySQL driver for C++ offers an easy to use API derived from JDBC
4.0. MySQL Workbench has used it successfully for years.

We have improved the driver since the last GA release. Please see the
documentation and the CHANGES file in …