A much requested feature has made it to MySQL 5.7.6: Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) can now be enabled online, without stopping writes, synchronizing servers, or restarting servers.

We introduced GTIDs in MySQL 5.6.6. GTIDs allow, among other things, seamless fail-over after a master has crashed. This enables highly available applications, since service can continue without interruption even if the master crashes. For new deployments, you could easily enable GTIDs right away – just set gtid-mode=ON in the configuration files. For deployments that accept a certain amount of downtime, you could switch from off to on too. However, for big deployments with strict limitations on downtime, this was more problematic, since you had to stop updates, sync all servers, and restart all servers simultaneously with GTIDs enabled, and this would lead to several minutes of downtime.

In MySQL 5.7.6, we have now made it possible to enable …

More Awesome Replication Features in 5.7.6

It is time to celebrate again. The latest MySQL server development milestone (MySQL 5.7.6) was just released, and let me tell you, it is full of great replication enhancements. These new improvements cover many areas, ranging from performance to flexibility and easier deployment. Let me highlight some of them, and give you a brief summary of what they are.

Multi-source Replication

A MySQL 5.7.6 slave/server can now connect to multiple MySQL masters.

After a long development period, two labs releases, handling feedback from community, and a lot of internal (and external testing as well – thank you!), the multi-source replication feature was finally pushed into MySQL 5.7. This is a major milestone for replication itself. The feature allows a single MySQL server to aggregate …

We are very happy to introduce a new MySQL utility named "mysqlslavetrx", which allows users to easily skip multiple transactions on multiple servers in a single step. This utility is one of three new utilities included in MySQL Utilities release-1.6.1 Alpha. The other utilities are "mysqlbinlogpurge" and "mysqlbinlogrotate", which can be used to purge and rotate binary logs.

The mysqlslavetrx utility allows you to skip multiple transactions on several slaves. More precisely, it injects empty transactions for the specified Global Transaction Identifier (GTID) set and list of target slaves. Skipping transactions can be useful to quickly recover from erroneous situations that can occur during the replication process, or to handle errant transactions. Check out the following blog posts for more details about concrete situations where you might need to inject empty transactions:

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We are very happy to introduce a new MySQL utility named “mysqlslavetrx“, which allows users to easily skip multiple transactions on multiple servers in a single step. This utility is one of three new utilities included in MySQL Utilities release-1.6.1 Alpha. The other utilities are “mysqlbinlogpurge” and “mysqlbinlogrotate“, which can be used to purge and rotate binary logs.

The mysqlslavetrx utility allows you to skip multiple transactions on several slaves. More precisely, it injects empty transactions for the specified Global Transaction Identifier (GTID) set and list of target slaves. Skipping transactions can be useful to quickly recover from erroneous situations that can occur during the replication process, or to handle errant transactions. Check out the following blog posts for more details about concrete situations where you might need to inject empty transactions: …

What is JSON

JSON is an text based, human readable format for transmitting data between systems, for serializing objects and for storing document store data for documents that have different attributes/schema for each document. Popular document store databases use JSON (and the related BSON) for storing and transmitting data.

Problems with JSON in MySQL

It is difficult to inter-operate between MySQL and MongoDB (or other document databases) because JSON has traditionally been very difficult to work with. Up until recently, JSON is just a TEXT document. I said up until recently, so what has changed? The biggest thing is that there are new JSON UDF by Sveta Smirnova, which are part of the MySQL 5.7 Labs releases. Currently the JSON UDF are up to version 0.0.4. While these new UDF are a welcome edition to the MySQL database, they don’t solve the really tough …

Today Oracle released MySQL 5.7.6 milestone 16. With this, MySQL 5.7 has been in development for over 2 years.
Compared to MySQL 5.6, the changes are quite extensive. The main effort of the team has been focused on speed, with performance reportedly improved from 2 to 3 times compared to previous releases.
A full list of what is new would take too much space here, but I would like to mention some key points:

• Oracle has spent a considerable amount of energy in the improvement of MySQL security and safety. You will see many new features, but even more old features that were deprecated and more that were removed after deprecation in 5.6.
• The installation process has been changing in every …

The MySQL Development team is happy to announce our 5.7.6 development milestone release (DMR), now available for download at dev.mysql.com! The source code is available at GitHub. You can find the full list of changes and bug fixes in the 5.7.6 release notes. Here are the highlights. Enjoy!

InnoDB

Refactoring needed for general tablespace (CREATE TABLESPACE) support (WL#8109) : This work by Kevin Lewis refactors and cleans up InnoDB code in preparation for supporting general tablespaces in WL#6205.

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The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.3.4. This is a maintenance release for 1.3.x. It can be used for production environments.

MySQL for Excel is installed using the MySQL Installer for Windows which comes in 2 versions:

• Full (150 MB) which includes a complete set of MySQL products with their binaries included in the download
• Web (1.5 MB - a network install) which will just pull MySQL for Excel over the web and install it when run.

You can download MySQL Installer from our official Downloads page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/. The MySQL for Excel product can also be downloaded by using the product standalone installer found at this link …

Introduction

Nowadays most companies use geographic distributed platforms to better serve their customers. It is quite common to see companies with datacenters in North America, Europe and Asia; each site hosting databases and shared data. In some cases the data is simply spread around for better accessibility; in other cases it is localized and different on each geographic location; in most cases a mix of the two.

Useless to say that most of the solutions were implemented using MySQL, and asynchronous replication. MySQL Asynchronous replication had being the most flexible solution, but at the same time also the most unreliable given the poor performance, lack of certification and possible data drift.

In this scenario the use of alternative solutions, like MySQL Synchronous (galera) replication had being a serious challenge. This because the nodes interactions was so intense and dense, that poor network performance …

Introduction

Nowadays most companies use geographic distributed platforms to better serve their customers. It is quite common to see companies with datacenters in North America, Europe and Asia; each site hosting databases and shared data. In some cases the data is simply spread around for better accessibility; in other cases it is localized and different on each geographic location; in most cases a mix of the two.

Useless to say that most of the solutions were implemented using MySQL, and asynchronous replication. MySQL Asynchronous replication had being the most flexible solution, but at the same time also the most unreliable given the poor performance, lack of certification and possible data drift.

In this scenario the use of alternative solutions, like MySQL Synchronous (galera) replication had being a serious challenge. This because the nodes interactions was so intense and dense, that poor network performance …