SCALE14x was held at Pasadena, Los Angeles this year from January 21-24 2016. I think its important to note that the venue changed from the Hilton LAX — this is a much bigger space, as the event is much bigger, and you’ll also notice that the expo hall has grown tremendously.

I had a talk in the MySQL track, and that was just one of over 180 talks. There were over 3,600 people attending, and it showed by the number of people coming by the MariaDB Corporation booth. I spent sometime there with Rod Allen, Max Mether, and Kurt Pastore, and the qualified leads we received were pretty high. Of course it didn’t hurt that we were also giving away a Sphero BB-8 Droid.

The …

Today I start this MySQL blog which will apply a focus on all things MySQL and attempt to bring out their practical usage.  In this particular blog I will give an introduction to MySQL by helping us all get a simple way to test new MySQL features or capabilities through the usage of Vagrant, Virtual Box and then setting… Read More »

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.12, and MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.24 & 5.5.48. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB 10.1.12 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.24 Release Notes […]

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A while back, I wrote a blog post explaining how PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA improvements in MySQL Server 5.7 provides new visibility into the SSL/TLS status of each running client configuration.  An excellent recent post from Frederic Descamps at Percona covers similar territory.  Both of us use PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA tables directly – a powerful interface, but one that requires a query joining multiple tables.  Thanks to the excellent work of Mark Leith, and a contribution from Daniël van Eeden, access to this same information is made far easier via the SYS schema.

I overlooked the SYS …

In this post, the first one of a Maxscale series, I describe how to use MariaDB’s MaxScale and MySQL-utilities with MySQL Asynchronous replication.

When we talk about high availability with asynchronous replication, we always think about MHA or PRM. But if we want to transparently use the slave(s) for READs, what can we use ?

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• Three MySQL servers, but one has very limited resources and will …

Sometime DBAs have to deal with problematic queries and cannot tackle the problem at the source (problematic queries from ORMs, third party apps,... or source unknown...). MySQL 5.7 provides a pre and post parse query rewrite APIs where users can write their own plug-ins. With the post-parse query plugin, you can rewrite problematic queries without the need to make application changes, add hints, modify join order...

The "mysql_real_connect" function is used by MySQL clients, including multi-threaded clients,  to connect to a MySQL server.  The "mysql_real_connect" function is allowed to be run by concurrent threads without application level serialization.  Unfortunately, the thread sanitizer found a data race in the "mysql_real_connect" function when processing the …

There is often a need to run queries in the background in MySQL. This generally is accomplished using a message queue (like gearman), or by using extensions to a client (PHP has such extensions) or by using MariaDB's native async query interface (C client only I think).

While such solutions work well, they don't work for say a GO client, or for the mysql command line client itself.

I present "async"; part of the Swanhart Toolkit (http://github.com/greenlion/swanhart-tools). Async is a stored procedure and event based solution for asynchronous queries.

It consists of:

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• A queue table to hold the SQL to run, the state of execution, error messages, etc
  
• A settings table that controls the number of parallel threads to use for executing queries
  
• A stored routine …

In this blog post, we’ll discuss how we can determine if a MySQL connection is using SSL.

Since MySQL 5.7.5 the server generates SSL certificates (see auto_generate_certs) by default if compiled with SSL, or uses mysql_ssl_rsa_setup if compiled with YaSSL.

But how can we check to see if our MySQL client connection uses SSL ?

When using an interactive client, it’s easy! You have two options:

1. Check the status(s):

mysql> s
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mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.11, for Linux (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper
Connection id:          7 …

Percona is glad to announce the first GA release of Percona Server 5.7.10-3 on February 23, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.7.10, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.7.10-3 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source …