This year I participated for the first time to the DOAG, the conference which takes place in November in Nuremberg. Here some key words about this event: Oracle and other technologies, 2000 visitors, more than 400 sessions, more than 800 abstracts sent, exhibitors…
And for me everything started when in June I decided to send an abstract for a MySQL session.

Preparation

I’ve been working on MySQL for several years. At the beginning of this year, I started testing the new 8.0 version. We live in an age where security is more important than ever, GDPR and other regulations force us to review some subjects such as privacy and data policies. MySQL put in place lots of improvements regarding security in this last version.
So my session proposal for the DOAG was the following one:

MySQL 8.0 Community – Ready for GDPR ?
One of the most topical subject today is …

As per the documentation, pt-table-checksum is a tool to perform online replication consistency checks by executing checksum queries on the master, which produces different results on replicas that are inconsistent with the master.

The master and each slave insert checksums into the percona.checksums table, and these are later compared for differences. It’s fairly obvious that the checksums need to be determined independently on each node, and so these inserts must be replicated as STATEMENT and not ROW. Otherwise, the slaves would just insert the same checksum as the master and not calculate it independently.

The tool only requires

binlog_format=STATEMENT

  for its own session. It sets this itself on the master, but will error if this isn’t already set on each slave node. The …

As you know, MySQL InnoDB Cluster is a High Availability solution for MySQL. However more and more people are trying to use it as a Disaster Recovery solution with 2 data centers. Natively, this is not yet supported. But it’s already possible to realize such setup if we agree with the following points:

•  a human interaction is required in case of Disaster Recovery which, by my own experience, is often acceptable
• a human interaction is required if the any Primary-Master acting as asynchronous slave leaves its group  (crash, network problem, …) or becomes secondary

These are not big constraints and it’s relatively easily to deal with them.

The Architecture

The situation is as follow:

• 2 data centers (one active, one inactive, only used for disaster recovery)
• 2 MySQL InnoDB Clusters (one in each DC)
• 3 members in each …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-25 on November 21, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.23, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-25 is now the current GA release in the 5.7 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

This release fixes a critical bug in a RocksDB submodule.

Bugs Fixed

• #5049: …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.62-38.14 on November 21, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.5.62, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.62-38.14 is now the current GA release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Note that Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.62-38.14 is the last release of the 5.5 series. This series goes EOL on December 1st, 2018.

Improvements

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We usually take care of things we value, whether it is an expensive smartphone or the company’s servers. Data is one of the most important assets of the organisation, and although we do not see it, it has to be carefully protected. We implement data at rest encryption to encrypt database files or whole volumes which contain our data. We implement data in transit encryption using SSL to make sure no one can sniff and collect data sent across networks. Backups are no different. No matter if this is a full backup or incremental, it will store at least a part of your data. As such, backups have to be encrypted too. In this blog post, we will look into some options you may have when it comes to encrypting backups. First though, let’s look at how you can encrypt your backups and what could be use cases for those methods.

How to encrypt your backup?

Encrypt local file

First of all, you can easily encrypt existing files. …

During our recent migration we migrated a part of a app to different region with new db. Our previous setup was on MySQL 5.6.39 with single write master and multiple slave to read data.  
Current Setup:


But now Masters will be two one for old and second for new migrated service. We moved new master on MySQL 5.7 with GTID, MTS and Logical Clock based replication. So our use case was to read whole data (written on master1 + master2) from slaves.

So now question is What we have done to achieve this?

Below is New Setup:
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The MariaDB Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.3.11, the latest stable release in the MariaDB 10.3 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/C 3.0.7 and MariaDB Connector/ODBC 3.0.7, both stable releases, and MariaDB Connector/Node.js 2.0.1, the first beta release of the new 100% JavaScript non-blocking MariaDB client for Node.js, compatible with Node.js […]

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Just a friendly reminder for another two shows where you can find MySQL team at this week. 

• Feira do Conhecimento Brazil is a unique event with more than 10.000 attendees. There will be about 200 exhibitors on 9000m2 of expo space presenting technological solutions to improve key areas for society such as health, education, cities, agriculture, water resources, renewable energies, inclusion and diversity. The show will bring together academia, business, government and community to show how science and technology can help reduce inequalities. We are happy to be part of this show with our talk and MySQL representative!

  • Place: Fortaleza, Brazil
  • Date: November 21-24, 2018
  • Approved Talk: "Innovation, Business & Technology" 
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