In this blog, we’ll look at ClickHouse on its one year anniversary.

It’s been a year already since the Yandex team released ClickHouse as open source software. I’ve had an interest in this project from the very start, as I didn’t think there was an open source analytical database that could compete with industry leaders like Vertica (for example).

This was an exciting year for ClickHouse early adopters. Let’s look at what it accomplished so far.

ClickHouse initially generated interest due to the Yandex name – the most popular search engine in Russia. It wasn’t long before jaw-dropping responses popped up: guys, this thing is crazy fast! Many early adopters who tried ClickHouse were really impressed.

Fast doesn’t mean convenient …

Here at MySQL we are constantly improving both our servers and our client software by making things simple to use and understand.  An area where we want to simplify things is around the version number we use for various MySQL client, connector, and other applications like Workbench, MySQL Enterprise Backup, etc.

Basically:

• We want to make sure our users easily know which version of a connector or client works with which server version(s).
• We want to deliver support for new server features during the server DMR phase without disrupting the GA versions of the connectors.

Which Connector Version To Use?

MySQL connectors (our client libraries — Connector/C, Connector/J, Connector/Net, etc) and other clients (tools and applications — MySQL Shell, MySQL Enterprise Backup, etc) will generally release more often than the server.  Relative to upgrading a set of servers in an …

In our “MySQL on Docker” blog series, we continue our quest to make Galera Cluster run smoothly in different container environments. One of the most important things when running a database service, whether in containers or bare-metal, is to eliminate the risk of data loss. We will see how we can leverage a promising feature in Kubernetes called StatefulSet, which orchestrates container deployment in a more predictable and controllable fashion.

In our previous blog post, we showed how one can deploy a Galera Cluster within Docker with the help of Kubernetes as orchestration tool. However, it is only about deployment. Running a database in production requires more than just deployment - we need to think about monitoring, backups, upgrades, recovery from …

Our MySQL infrastructure is a critical component to GitHub. MySQL serves GitHub.com, GitHub’s API, authentication and more. Every git request touches MySQL in some way. We are tasked with keeping the data available, and maintaining its integrity. Even while our MySQL clusters serve traffic, we need to be able to perform tasks such as heavy duty cleanups, ad-hoc updates, online schema migrations, cluster topology refactoring, pooling and load balancing and more. We have the infrastructure to automate away such operations; in this post we share a few examples of how we build trust in our infrastructure through continuous testing. It is essentially how we sleep well at night.

Backups

It is incredibly important to take backups of your data. If you are not taking backups of your database, it is likely a matter of time before this will become an issue. Percona …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.4.2 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days. MySQL Enterprise Monitor is the best-in-class tool for monitoring and management of your MySQL assets and is included with your MySQL Enterprise Edition and MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition subscriptions.

You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

Highlights of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.4 include:

• The Replication Dashboard is extended to provide monitoring support for Group Replication, which was introduced in MySQL Server 5.7.17. The Topology view provides a visual representation of your group replication topologies, and the Status drill downs are …

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 6.10.2 beta is the third release which supports Scaffold-DbContext, that enables the creation of corresponding model classes from an existing database that are compatible with Entity Framework (EF) Core 1.1.

To download MySQL Connector/Net 6.10.2 beta, see the “Development Releases” tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/

Changes in MySQL Connector/Net 6.10.2 (2017-07-04, Beta)

Functionality Added or Changed

* The previously deprecated Old Syntax (OldSyntax, Use Old Syntax, UseOldSyntax) connection-string option was removed.

* EF Core: Tables from an existing database can be specified with command-line tools when scaffolding a DbContext. The MySQL provider generates an entity type for each table in the DbContext. By default, all …

In this blog, we’ll look at the differences in how a PREPARE statement handles errors in binary and text protocols.

Introduction

Since Percona XtraDB Cluster is a multi-master solution, when an application executes conflicting workloads one of the workloads gets rolled back with a DEADLOCK error. While the same holds true even if you fire the workload through a PREPARE statement, there are differences between using the MySQL connector API (with binary protocol) and the MySQL client (with text protocol). Let’s look at these differences with the help of an example.

Base Workload

• Say we have a two-node cluster (n1 and n2) with the following base schema and tables:
  

  use test;
  create table t (i int, k int, primary key pk(i)) engine=innodb;
  insert into t values (1, 10), (2, 20), (3, 30); …

Join Percona’s Solutions Engineer, Dimitri Vanoverbeke as he presents Security and Encryption in the MySQL World on Thursday, July 6, 2017, at 7:00 am PDT / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-7).

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MySQL and MariaDB Server provide many new features that help with security and encryption, both of which are extremely important in today’s world. Learn how to use these features, from roles to at-rest-encryption, to increase security. At the end of the webinar, you should understand how to have a securely configured MySQL instance!

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Codership is pleased to announce a new release of Galera Cluster for MySQL
consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.18, 5.6.36, 5.5.55 and Galera 3.21, wsrep API
version 25.

Changes to Repositories Structure

With the new release the repository structure is changed to allow for
existence of all of the wsrep-patched mysql versions currently supported:
5.5 through 5.7.

Thus the repository layout requires from the user to adjust his or her
repository configuration to accomodate those changes. In order to have the
MySQL-wsrep and Galera library installed, one would need to add the following
repositories:

1. Galera-3 repository for galera library:
e.g. http://releases.galeracluster.com/galera-3/DIST/

Here DIST is Linux distribution (ubuntu, centos, …).

The latest version of Galera for FreeBSD is available in FreeBSD Ports
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Something interesting happened to me in the last days, and it is worth sharing.  I was upgrading MariaDB (MySQL also impacted) to a new major version and mysql_upgrade showed something like this:

[...] Phase 4/7: Running 'mysql_fix_privilege_tables' ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 586: Duplicate entry 'schema-table_name#P#partition_name_truncated' for key 'PRIMARY' ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 590: