In this blog post, I’ll look at point-in-time recovery (PITR) options for MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server for MySQL.

It is a common good practice to extend data safety by having additional measures apart from regular data backups, such as delayed slaves and binary log backups. These two options provide the ability to restore the data to any given point in time, or just revert from some bad accidents. These methods have their limitations of course: delayed slaves only help if a deadly mistake is noticed fast enough, while full point-in-time recovery (PITR) requires the last full backup and binary …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.9.1. PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

This release contains bug fixes only and supersedes Percona Monitoring and Management 1.9.0. This release effectively solves the problem in QAN when the Count column actually displayed the number of queries per minute, not per second, as the user would expect. The following screenshot …

After a grand update of dbForge Studio for MySQL, we haven’t forgotten about the rest of the dbForge for MySQL product range. Our developers took maximum care of each and every MySQL tool and revamped them with specific new features and updates. All the tools have been enhanced with the cutting-edge connectivity and compatibility options […]

Introduction

One of the things I like about Continuent Tungsten is how Tungsten Connector can hold traffic while a (graceful) master switch is taking place. This means the application may experience a brief spike in latency, but has not returned any errors from the database layer.

René also described a similar process using ProxySQL and mysqlrpladmin here. In this post we will try to achieve the same feat, a graceful master switchover with ProxySQL and Orchestrator.

ProxySQL considerations

ProxySQL needs to isolate our application from the changes going on at the database layer.
By design, if a query needs to be sent to a hostgroup that has no servers in ONLINE state, ProxySQL waits until either a server becomes available or a timeout expires (mysql-connect_timeout_server_max if I am not …

Since Yelp introduced its real-time streaming data infrastructure, “Data Pipeline”, it has grown in scope and matured vastly. It now supports some of Yelp’s most critical business requirements in its mission to connect people with great local businesses. Today, it has expanded into a diverse ecosystem of connectors sourcing data from Kafka and MySQL, and sinking data into Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MySQL, Redshift, and S3. To ensure that the whole ecosystem is functioning correctly, Yelp’s Data Pipeline infrastructure is continually growing its repertoire of reliability techniques such as write-ahead logging, two-phase commit, fuzz testing, monkey testing, and black-box auditing to...

The members of the MySQL Curriculum team are pleased to announce a new course titled MySQL Cloud Service for MySQL Database Administrators.

This course provides the information needed for a MySQL database administrator (DBA) to get up to speed quickly and start working with MySQL Cloud Service.

This course focuses on the cloud features and techniques that will enable a DBA to get cloud databases up and running efficiently. The course focuses on activities to guide DBAs through the process of creating and managing cloud database instances. DBAs practice creating cloud database instances and then connecting to the instance to see how the configuration of files, directories, users, and security settings compare to their on-premise MySQL database instances. They practice migrating an on-premise database to the cloud and practice with cloud features like snapshots, clones, and backup schedules. They learn to monitor their database …

In this blog post, we demonstrate a new feature in ProxySQL Admin: support for multiple clusters.

In a previous blog post, Ramesh and Roel introduced a new tool that helps configured Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes into ProxySQL. However, at that time it only worked for a single cluster per ProxySQL Admin configuration. Starting from …

We extensively use MySQL error logging for proactive diagnostics, MySQL 8 has improved error logging which is capable of sending multiple format (like JSON) logs  to multiple destinations like Kibana for log processing and analysis. Let’s see how this works:

MySQL 8.0 default configuration

mysql> select * from global_variables where VARIABLE_NAME like 'log_error_%';
+---------------------+----------------------------------------+
| VARIABLE_NAME       | VARIABLE_VALUE                         |
+---------------------+----------------------------------------+
| log_error_services  | log_filter_internal; log_sink_internal |
| log_error_verbosity | 2                                      |
+---------------------+----------------------------------------+

Now that means log events will pass first through log_filter_interval (built-in filter component) and then through log_sink_interval (built-in …

We’ve posted the Percona Live 2018 keynote addresses for the seventh annual Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018, taking place April 23-25, 2018 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. 

This year’s keynotes explore topics ranging from how cloud and open source database adoption accelerates business growth, to leading-edge emerging technologies, to the importance of MySQL 8.0, to the growing popularity of PostgreSQL.

We’re excited by the great lineup of speakers, including our friends at Alibaba Cloud, Grafana, Microsoft, Oracle, Upwork and VividCortex, the innovative leaders on the Cool Technologies panel, and Brendan Gregg …

In MySQL 8.0 we have replaced the old regular expression library with the ICU regex library.  See Martin’s blog on the topic. The main goal is to get full Unicode support for regular expressions, but in addition we get a lot of neat features.…