Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.15-5 on March 15, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

This release includes fixes to bugs found in previous releases of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.

Incompatible changes

In previous releases, the audit log used to produce time stamps inconsistent with the ISO 8601 standard. Release 8.0.15-5 of Percona Server for MySQL solves this problem. This change, however, may break programs that rely on the old time stamp …

We had the problem today that a MySQL Galera Cluster node with the multi-tenancy pattern caused a lot of system time (sy 75%, load average about 30 (you really must read this article by Brendan Gregg, it is worth it!)) so we wanted to find what system calls are being used to see what could cause this issue (to verify if it is a TOC or a TDC problem:

$ sudo strace -c -p $(pidof -s mysqld) -f -e trace=all
Process 5171 attached with 41 threads
Process 16697 attached
^C …

Just about a month ago, Pavel Ivanov released Ripple under the Apache-2.0 license. Ripple is a MySQL binlog server: software which receives binary logs from MySQL or MariaDB servers and delivers them to another MySQL or MariaDB server. Practically ,this is an intermediary master which does not store any data, except the binary logs themselves, and does not apply events. This solution allows saving of a lot of resources on the server, which acts only as a middle-man between the master and its actual slave(s).

The intermediary server, keeping binary logs only and not doing any other job, is a prevalent use case which allows us to remove IO (binlog read) and network (binlog retrieval via network) load from the actual …

I strongly believe in the community.

Communities are the real strength of open source. Not just the theoretical ability to study, modify and share code – but the fact that other people out there are doing these things. Creating a base of knowledge and a network of relations.These can become work relationships, valuable discussions, open source tools, or even friendships.

That is why, when I heard that several people from the Percona support team will soon be in London, I badly wanted to organise an event.

Actually, there was an interesting coincidence. When I asked Sveta Smirnova if anyone from Percona lives in London, I already knew I wanted to organise an event with this new meetup group I’ve started: …

We see at various customers the request for consolidating their MariaDB and MySQL infrastructure. The advantage of such a measure is clear in the first step: Saving costs! And this requests comes typically from managers. But what we unfortunately see rarely is to question this request from the IT engineering perspective. Because it comes, as anything in life, with some "costs". So, saving costs with consolidation on one side comes with "costs" for operation complexity on the other side.

To give you some arguments for arguing with managers we collected some topics to consider before consolidating:

• Bigger Database Instances are more demanding in handling than smaller ones:
  • Backup and Restore time takes longer. Copying files around takes longer, etc.
  • Possibly your logical backup with mysqldump does not restore any longer in a reasonable amount of time ( …

Consistency during reads have been a small concern from the adopters of MySQL InnoDB Cluster (see this post and this one).

This is why MySQL supports now (since 8.0.14) a new consistency model to avoid such situation when needed.

Nuno Carvalho and Aníbal Pinto already posted a blog series I highly encourage you to read:

• Group Replication – Consistency Levels
• Group Replication: Preventing stale reads on …

For those of you who missed the webinar, “Geo-Scale MySQL in AWS,” recorded live on Thursday, March 14th, 2019:

Learn how to build a global, multi-region MySQL / MariaDB / Percona cloud back-end capable of serving hundreds of millions of online multiplayer game accounts.

Agenda:

Find out how Riot Games serves a globally distributed audience with low-latency, fast response times for read traffic, rapid-failover automated high availability, simple administration, system visibility, and stability.

Speaker:

Eric M. Stone

COO at Continuent, is a veteran of fast-paced, large-scale enterprise environments with 35 years of Information Technology experience. With a focus on HA/DR, from building data centers and trading floors to world-wide deployments, Eric has …

• .As a continue of the blog post submitted on Jan 31, we would like to share with you the list of events & conferences where you can find MySQL Community team and/or MySQL experts at. Please find below the list with all known details we have right now. 
• April 2019:
  • Oracle Code, Rome, Italy, April 4, 2019
    • A MySQL talk was accepted for this Oracle show. Please find a talk on "NoSQL+SQL=MySQL" given by Frederick Descamps, the MySQL Community Manager.
  • DrupalCon, Seattle, US, April 8-10, 2019
    • This time …

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The following is an excerpt from our whitepaper “How to Design Highly Available Open Source Database Environments” which can be downloaded for free.

A Couple of Words on “High Availability”

These days high availability is a must for any serious deployment. Long gone are days when you could schedule a downtime of your database for several hours to perform a maintenance. If your services are not available, you are losing customers and money. Therefore making a database environment highly available has typically one of the highest priorities.

This poses a significant challenge to database administrators. First of all, how …