Oracle MySQL 8.0 has been declared GA but a critical piece is missing … MySQL 8 is a fantastic release embedding the work of brilliant Oracle engineering. I will not detail all the great features of MySQL 8 as there are a lot of great presentations around it. https://mysqlserverteam.com/whats-new-in-mysql-8-0-generally-available/ One of my main concern regarding ...continue reading "A critical piece is missing for Oracle MySQL 8 (GA) …"

Query profiling is a useful technique for analyzing the overall performance of a database. Considering that a single mid-to-large sized application can execute numerous queries each and every second, query profiling is an important part of database tuning, both as a proactive measure and in diagnosing problems.  In fact, it can become difficult to determine the exact sources and causes of bottlenecks and sluggish performance without employing some sort of query profiling techniques. This blog will present a few useful query profiling techniques that exploit MariaDB server’s own built-in tools: the Slow Query Log and the Performance Schema.

MariaDB vs. MySQL

Needless to say, the techniques that we’ll be covering here today are likely to be equally applicable to MySQL, due to the close relationship between the two products.

The day that Oracle announced the purchase of Sun back in 2010, Michael “Monty” Widenius …

As an update to the blog posted on April 4, 2018 we would like to update the list of events where you can find MySQL. Please see the four new conferences below: 

• DevTalks, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 16, 2018

  • MySQL became a customized sponsor of this show. We will have  MySQL keynote given by Georgi Kodinov, the MySQL Senior SW Development Manager. We are still working on the topic, please watch the organizers’ website for further updates. 
• SyntaxCon,  Charleston, SC, US, June 6-8, 2018  
  • MySQL Community team is going to be Bronze sponsor of …

In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Shuhoa Wu, Software Developer for Shopify, Inc. about how Ghostferry is the Swiss Army knife of live data migrations.

Existing tools like mysqldump and replication cannot migrate data between GTID-enabled MySQL and non-GTID-enabled MySQL – a common configuration across multiple cloud providers that cannot be changed. These tools are also cumbersome to operate and error-prone, thus requiring a DBA’s attention for each data migration. Shopify’s team introduced a tool that allows for easy migration of data between MySQL databases with constant downtime on the order of seconds.

Inspired by gh-ost, their tool is named Ghostferry and allows application developers at Shopify to migrate data without assistance …

In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Jun Su, Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft about how Microsoft built MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB for the cloud.

Offering MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB database services in the cloud is different than doing so on-premise. Latency, connection redirection, optimal performance configuration are just a few challenges. In this session, Jun Su walked us through Microsoft’s journey to not only offer these popular OSS RDBMS in Microsoft Azure, but how they are implemented in Azure as a true DBaaS. We learned about Microsoft’s Azure Database Services platform architecture, and how these services are built to scale.

In Azure, database engine instances are services managed by the Azure Service Fabric, which is a platform for …

The MySQL Community Awards initiative is an effort to acknowledge and thank individuals and corporations for their contributions to the MySQL ecosystem. It is a from-the-community, by-the-community, and for-the-community effort. The committee is composed of an independent group of community members of different orientation and opinion, themselves past winners or known contributors to the community.

The 2018 community awards were presented on April 23, 2018, during the Welcome Reception at the Percona Live conference. The winners are:

MySQL Community Awards: Community Contributor of the year 2018

• Jean-François Gagné
  Jean-François was nominated for his many blog posts, bug reports, and experiment results that make MySQL much better. Here is his blog: …

In this blog post on Percona Live 2018 sessions, we’ll talk with Christian Antognini, Senior Principal Consultant at Trivadis about the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL query optimizers.

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most popular open-source relational databases. Why would you pick one over the other to support your applications? Of course, it depends on the use case, environment and workload. To help with choosing between them, the people at Trivadis ran a comparison of their query optimizers. The aim of this session was to summarize the outcome of the comparison. Specifically, to point out optimizer-related strengths and weaknesses.

Christian spent a lot of time looking at the differences in indexing with regard to sorts, keys and partitioning, as well as joins and merges.

Both …

In this Percona Live 2018 blog, we’ll talk with Ronald Francisco, SRE of Database Infrastructure at Twitter about why they moved from a fork of MySQL to MySQL 5.7.

We already started today with a great set of keynote sessions, and now the breakout sessions have begun in earnest. I’ve been looking in on the talks and stopping to talk with some of the presenters.

In this session, Ronald Ramon Francisco (Twitter Inc) SRE, Database Infrastructure presented the motivation for moving from a fork to MySQL to MySQL proper, and why they decided to do it. Twitter has been using their own fork of MySQL for many years. Last year the team decided to migrate to the community version of MySQL 5.7 and abandoned their own version. The road to the community version was full of challenges.

He also discussed the challenges and surprises encountered and how they overcome them. Finally, He looked at lessons learned, …

Last year we already published our over 2.1M QPS record with MySQL 8.0 -- it was not yet GA on that moment and the result was obtained on the server with 4CPU Sockets (4S) Intel Broadwell v4. We did not plan any improvement in 8.0 for RO related workloads, and the main target of this test was to ensure there is NO regressions in the results (yet) comparing to MySQL 5.7 (where the main RO improvements were delivered). While for MySQL 8.0 we mostly focused our efforts on lagging WRITE performance in MySQL/InnoDB, and our "target HW" was 2CPU Sockets servers (2S) -- which is probably the most widely used HW configuration for todays MySQL Server deployments..
However, not only SW, but also HW is progressing quickly these days ! -- and one of my biggest surprises last time was about Intel Skylake CPU ;-)) -- the following graph is …

Welcome to Percona Live 2018 keynotes, day one!

Percona Live 2018 is up and running! We call this day one, but in reality, yesterday was filled with tutorials that provided excellent and practical information on how to get your MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB and PostgreSQL environments up, running and optimized.

Today we started with keynote presentations from Percona, a technology panel, Oracle and Netflix. You can view the recording of today’s keynotes here.

Percona Welcome

Laurie Coffin (Percona)

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