MySQL documentation has much improved code examples now: There's syntax highlighting in place, and code snippets can easily be copied to the clipboard. Highlighting is language-aware (including "languages" like the shell/command line). See, for example, this page from the X DevAPI documentation that contains a number of code examples for different programming languages.

Syntax highlighting is a project we planned a year ago, but it turned out to be more complex than we thought it would be. One of the major challenges was performance -- we didn't want the new function to slow down page loading, which is what many highlighting plugins do. Eventually, our striving Web team gave prism.js a try, which works like a charm and doesn't impact performance at all. The Web team also created a little …

MySQL documentation has greatly improved code examples now: There's syntax highlighting in place, and code snippets can easily be copied to the clipboard. Highlighting is language-aware (including "languages" like the shell/command line). See, for example, this page from the X DevAPI documentation that contains a number of code examples for different programming languages.

Syntax highlighting is a project we planned a year ago, but it turned out to be more complex than we thought it would be. One of the major challenges was performance -- we didn't want the new function to slow down page loading, which is what many highlighting plugins do. Eventually, our striving Web team gave prism.js a try, which works like a charm and doesn't impact performance at all. The Web team also created a little …

In this first of a series of blog posts, we’ll look at MySQL encryption at rest.

At Percona, we work with a number of clients that require strong security measures for PCI, HIPAA and PHI compliance, where data managed by MySQL needs to be encrypted “at rest.” As with all things open source, there several options for meeting the MySQL encryption at rest requirement. In this three-part series, we cover several popular options of encrypting data and present the various pros and cons to each solution. You may want to evaluate which parts of these tutorials work best for your situation before using them in production.

Part one of this series is implementing disk-level encryption using crypt+LUKS.

In MySQL 5.7, InnoDB has built-in encryption features. This solution has some cons, …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.4.1 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 …

MySQL is an open source relational database managed system (RDBMS) that enables users and applications to store, organize, and retrieve ...

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We all do need sometimes to generate raw valid dummy data for our use cases and applications as we start them. Obviously, one can write their own scripts to generate random data, but it is much better to have data, to which human beings can associate with like names, addresses instead of having them filled with random "lorem ipsum" string data :)

While searching for such a tool, I found a site which does exactly this: http://www.generatedata.com/

Documentation: http://benkeen.github.io/generatedata/

This can also be downloaded and installed locally. It supports three types of installations:
- A single, anonymous user account
- A single user account, requires login
- Multiple accounts

Below is the set of wide varied data types it supports for …

Join Percona’s CEO and Founder Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL In the Cloud: Migration, Best Practices, High Availability, Scaling on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, at 10 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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Businesses are moving many of the systems and processes they once owned to offsite “service” models: Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), etc. These services are usually referred to as being “in the cloud” – meaning that the infrastructure and management of the service in …

Anybody who has run the MySQL MTR test suite must have seen a statement like “x tests were skipped, y by the test itself. ” at the end of test runs. Why are some tests being skipped? Are the skipped tests affecting test coverage?…

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

Upgrade Existing TDE to Use New Unified Key Management in 12c Upgraded Database (non-cdb)

Instrumentation … not just for debugging

12.2 Index Deferred Invalidation (Atomica)

Collation in 12cR2 – when AA equals Å (or not?)

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This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

Upgrade Existing TDE to Use New Unified Key Management in 12c Upgraded Database (non-cdb)

Instrumentation … not just for debugging

12.2 Index Deferred Invalidation (Atomica)

Collation in 12cR2 – when AA equals Å (or not?)

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