MariaDB 10.0.18 was recently released, and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/10.0.18/

This is the ninth GA release of MariaDB 10.0, and 19th overall release of MariaDB 10.0.

There were no major functionality changes, but there were some general improvements, several security fixes, plus a 10.0.18 mysql_upgrade caution, and quite a few bug fixes, so let me cover what I feel are the main items of note:

• Security Fixes: Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2014-8964 / CVE-2015-2325 …

MariaDB 5.5.43 was recently released (it is the latest MariaDB 5.5), and is available for download here:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.43/

This is a maintenance release, and so there were not too many major changes, but definitely a few worth mentioning, as well as one *important* caution:

• Security Fixes: Fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2015-0501
  • CVE-2015-2571
  • …

One of my favorite tools for query optimization is profiling. But recently I noticed this warning:

mysql> set profiling=1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

mysql> show warnings;
+---------+------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Level   | Code | Message                                                              |
+---------+------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Warning | 1287 | '@@profiling' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. |
+---------+------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

After looking through certain documentation , I should indeed start using the Performance Schema to get this information.

Okay, so let’s give that a try.

I confirmed that I started MySQL 5.6.23 …

At Yahoo, we manage a massive number of MySQL databases spread across multiple data centers. 

In order to identify and respond to performance issues, we rely on an extremely lightweight and robust web based tool to proactively investigate the issues in them.

The tool has real time tracking features and continually gathers the most important performance metrics, provides visualization and statistical analysis for quickly identifying performance patterns, bottlenecks and possible tuning opportunities.

Features

Lightweight Agentless Java Web Application
Rich User Interface
Gather and Store performance metrics 
Detect anomalies and send alerts
Access to Real time Performance data

Open Source

Today, we’re releasing MySQL Performance Analyzer. You can check out the code on …

General-purpose MySQL applications should read MySQL option files like /etc/my.cnf, ~/.my.cnf, ... and ~/.mylogin.cnf. But ~/.mylogin.cnf is encrypted. That's a problem for our ocelotgui GUI application, and I suppose other writers of Linux applications could face the same problem, so I'll share the code we'll use to solve it.

First some words of defence. I think that encryption (or more correctly obfuscation) is okay as an option: a customer asked for it, and it prevents the most casual snoopers -- rather like a low fence: anyone can get over it, but making it a bit troublesome will make most passersby pass by. I favoured the idea, though other MySQL employees were against it on the old "false sense of security" argument. After all, by …

In part one of this post, I gave you a couple examples of how to backup your MySQL databases using mysqldump. In part two, I will show you how to use the MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) to create a full and partial backup.

MySQL Enterprise Backup provides enterprise-grade backup and recovery for MySQL. It delivers hot, online, non-blocking backups on multiple platforms including Linux, Windows, Mac & Solaris. To learn more, you may download a …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.1-beta1 on May 20th 2015. Downloads are available from our download site here. This BETA release, will be available in Debian testing and CentOS testing repositories.

This is an BETA quality release and it is not intended for production. If you want a high quality, …

FATAL: Cannot connect to MySQL server on 'localhost': Cacti Error - Solution to the issue while setting-up.

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This is a little quiz (could be a discussion). I know what we tend to prefer (and why), but we’re interested in hearing additional and other opinions!

Given the way MySQL/MariaDB is architected, what would you prefer to see in a new server, more cores or higher clock speed? (presuming other factors such as CPU caches and memory access speed are identical).

For example, you might have a choice between

• 2x 2.4GHz 6 core, or
• 2x 3.0GHz 4 core

which option would you pick for a (dedicated) MySQL/MariaDB server, and why?

And, do you regard the “total speed” (N cores * GHz) as relevant in the decision process? If so, when and to what degree?

Part 1 of 2: (part two)
If you have used MySQL for a while, you have probably used mysqldump to backup your database. In part one of this blog, I am going to show you how to create a simple full and partial backup using mysqldump. In part two, I will show you how to use MySQL Enterprise Backup (which is the successor to the InnoDB Hot Backup product). MySQL …