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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I will be at several events in June 2017:

• db tech showcase 2017 – 16-17 June 2017 – Tokyo, Japan. I’m giving a talk about best practices around MySQL High Availability.
• O’Reilly Velocity 2017 – 19-22 June 2017 – San Jose, California, USA. I’m giving a tutorial about best practices around MySQL High Availability. Use code CC20 for a 20% discount.

I look forward to meeting with you at either of these events, to discuss all things MySQL (High Availability, security, cloud, etc.), and how Percona can help you.

As I write this, I’m in Budva, Montenegro, for the Percona engineering meeting.

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.18-29.20 on June 2, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

NOTE: You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

NOTE: Due to new package dependency, Ubuntu/Debian users should use apt-get dist-upgrade or apt-get installpercona-xtradb-cluster-57 to upgrade.

Percona XtraDB Cluster …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.36-26.20 on June 2, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.36-26.20 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.36-82.0
• Galera Replication library 3.20
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free.

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