Today the call for participation for Oracle Open World 2018 has started.

The 2018’s edition will take place in San Francisco as usual, from October 22nd to 25th.

As every year, MySQL will be present and if you want to participate, we encourage you to submit a session. We encourage the submission on the following topics:

• case studies / user stories of your use of MySQL
• lessons learned in running web scale MySQL
• Production DBA/DevOps perspectives into Architecture, Performance, Replication, InnoDB, Security, etc

The call for paper is open until March 22nd, don’t miss the chance to be part …

In this blog post,  I’ll look at how to catch slow and frequent queries with ProxySQL.

More and more people are using ProxySQL because it is a great tool and it can help DBAs a lot. But many people do not realize that it is more powerful than it looks. It has many features and possibilities. I am going to show you one of my favorite “tricks” / use cases.

There are plenty of blog posts explaining how ProxySQL works. I am not going to that again. Instead, let’s jump straight to the point. There is a table in ProxySQL called “stats.stats_mysql_query_digest”. It is one of my favorite tables because it basically records all the queries that were running against ProxySQL. Without collecting any queries on the MySQL server, I can find …

As for each previous version, to upgrade to MySQL 8.0 you must first read the upgrade section in the manual. It’s important to know that you should upgrade without skipping a major version, so upgrade from 5.6 to 8.0 is not supported neither recommended.

Please also note that upgrades from any MySQL 8.0 RC won’t work. We support upgrade process only from GA versions.

Then one of the most important section to be aware of, is the incompatibility changes brought with the new version.

Once you have read the upgrade section in the manual and the release note of the version you want to install, with MySQL 8.0 and its new MySQL Shell, we developed …

Buying software solutions for your company is a skill just like any other business practice. To be effective at purchasing it is necessary to have a clear understanding of what you require and a plan on how to evaluate potential vendors. When time is also a factor a working knowledge of the internal buying processes and expectations of your employer are also important.

The wide variety of similar sounding products with hard to distinguish feature differentiators can be daunting. In order to get the right software at a competitive price within the desired timeframe there are 4 important things to consider.

Here’s the short list:

• Define requirements by focusing on needs instead of features
• Prepare your budget, know your buying process
• Check provider quality and support
• Make the most of your trial period

And here’s the longer one: …

Buying software solutions for your company is a skill just like any other business practice. To be effective at purchasing it is necessary to have a clear understanding of what you require and a plan on how to evaluate potential vendors. When time is also a factor a working knowledge of the internal buying processes and expectations of your employer are also important.

The wide variety of similar sounding products with hard to distinguish feature differentiators can be daunting. In order to get the right software at a competitive price within the desired timeframe there are 4 important things to consider.

Here’s the short list:

• Define requirements by focusing on needs instead of features
• Prepare your budget, know your buying process
• Check provider quality and support
• Make the most of your trial period

And here’s the longer one: …

In this blog post, I’ll look at how to execute a MySQL single table Point-In-Time Recovery.

I recently wrote a blog post describing a different way of doing Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR). If you want to know the step by step, please visit the mentioned blog post. Here is a quick summary of the approach:

1. Restore the backup on the desired server
2. Create a fake master
3. Copy all relevant binlogs to the fake master
4. Configure server from the first step as a slave from a fake master

In addition to the above steps, there is a similar approach …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.39-26.25 (PXC) on February 26, 2018. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.39-26.25 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.39
• Galera/Codership WSREP API Release 5.6.39
• Galera Replication library 3.23

Starting from this release, Percona XtraDB …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.7-rc is the release candidate (RC)
of the MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0 series.

Connector/C++ 8.0 can be used to access MySQL implementing Document
Store or in a traditional way, using SQL queries. It allows writing
both C++ applications using X DevAPI or plain C applications using
XAPI.

To learn more about how to write applications using X DevAPI, see
“X DevAPI User Guide”

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/

and “X DevAPI Reference” at

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-cpp/devapi_ref.html

For more information about using plain C XAPI see “XAPI Reference” at

…

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the availability of MariaDB 10.3.5, the first release candidate in the MariaDB 10.3 series, as well as MariaDB Connector/J 2.2.2, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 2.2 series, and MariaDB Connector/J 1.7.2, the latest stable release in the MariaDB Connector/J 1.7 series. See the release notes […]

The post MariaDB 10.3.5 and MariaDB Connector/J 2.2.2 and 1.7.2 now available appeared first on MariaDB.org.

Please join Percona’s Build / Release Engineer, Mykola Marzhan, as he presents Monitoring Amazon RDS with Percona Monitoring and Management on February 27, 2018, at 7:00 am PST (UTC-8) / 10:00 am EST (UTC-5).

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Are you concerned about how you are monitoring your AWS environment? Keeping track of what is happening in your Amazon RDS deployment is key to guaranteeing the performance and availability of your database for …