From MySQL 8.0, utf8mb4 is the default character set, and the default collation for utf8mb4 is utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci. MySQL 8.0 is also coming with a whole new set of Unicode collations for the utf8mb4 character set.

This will allow use of the complete Unicode 9.0.0 character set in MySQL, and for new applications this is great news.…

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on High Availability in ProxySQL and on how to build a solid, scalable and manageable proxy layer using ProxySQL for highly available MySQL infrastructures.

This second joint webinar with ProxySQL creator René Cannaò saw lots of interest and some nice questions from our audience, which we’re sharing below with this blog post as well as the answers to them.

Building a highly available proxy layer creates additional challenges, such as how to manage multiple proxy instances, how to ensure that their configuration is in sync, Virtual IP and fail-over; and more, which we’ve covered in this webinar with René. And we demonstrated how you can make your ProxySQL highly available when deploying it from ClusterControl (download & try it free).

If you missed the …

As a stored procedures fan, I use MySQL stored procedures to get some of my DBA tasks accomplished. To make it simple, I have a template stored procedure that can be customized for several purposes.
The template syntax contains cursor, continue handler, loop, if condition and prepared statement. Thought it may be useful for others – at least, who are searching for the MySQL Stored Procedure syntax – so I’m publishing this post!

Use case: Reorganize tables partition:

In MySQL Cluster, it is required to reorganize all NDB tables’ partitions after adding new data nodes to rebalance the data across all nodes. Also the tables need to be optimized afterwards to reclaim the memory space. For this task I use the following procedure:

DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS reorganize_tables;
DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE reorganize_tables (IN db_name VARCHAR(50))
BEGIN


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MySQL 8.0.1 introduces a new mechanism to track the dependencies between transactions. This feature is used to optimize the binary log applier on asynchronous replication slaves, improving the throughput significantly on workloads where there is low-concurrency on the master and/or on systems with very fast storage.…

In this blog post, we’ll look at a transaction replay anomaly in Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Introduction

Percona XtraDB Cluster/Galera replays a transaction if the data is non-conflicting but, the transaction happens to have conflicting locks.

Anomaly

Let’s understand this with an example:

• Let’s assume a two-node cluster (node-1 and node-2)
• Base table “t” is created as follows:

create database test;
use test;
create table t (i int, c char(20), primary key pk(i)) engine=innodb;
insert into t values (1, 'abc'), (2, 'abc'), (4, 'abc');
select * from t;
mysql> select * from t;
+---+------+
| i | c |
+---+------+
| 1 | abc |
| 2 | abc |
| 4 | abc |
+---+------+

• node-2 starts runs a transaction (trx-2):
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In this blog post, we’ll look at how increasing the fc_limit can affect SELECT latency.

Introduction

Recent Percona XtraDB Cluster optimizations have exposed fc_limit contention. It was always there, but was never exposed as the Commit Monitor contention was more significant. As it happens with any optimization, once we solve the bigger contention issues, smaller contention issues start popping up. We have seen this pattern in InnoDB, and Percona XtraDB Cluster is no exception. In fact, it is good because it tells us that we are on the right track.

If you haven’t yet checked the performance blogs, then please visit here and …

In this blog, we’ll look at how to achieve better-than-linear scaling.

Scalability is the capability of a system, network or process to handle a growing amount of work, or its potential to be enlarged to accommodate that growth. For example, we consider a system scalable if it is capable of increasing its total output under an increased load when resources (typically hardware) are added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability.

It is often accepted as a fact that systems (in particular databases) can’t scale better than linearly. By this I mean when you double resources, the expected performance doubles, at best (and often is less than doubled).  

We can attribute this assumption to Amdahl’s law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law), and later …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.55 Stable (GA), MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.55 Stable (GA) and MariaDB Connector/J 2.0.0 RC. See the release notes and changelogs for details. Download MariaDB 5.5.55 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 5.5? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Galera Cluster […]

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The MySQL team is constantly improving and innovating the product… this time, after having put particular attention to DBAs and operators with Group Replication & InnoDB Cluster,  let’s have a look to what we can also bring to developers.

Let’s start with the following challenge:

Add 5 books from scratch with all their metadata (authors, isbn, edition, year, …) in last than 5 minutes using only MySQL Shell in command line !

Do you thinks this is not possible ? Check the video below:

Amazing isn’t it ?

If you want to learn more about this, please attend Mike Zinner & Alfredo Kojima’s session at Percona Live next week:

This quick post demonstrates using Percona Server for MySQL in Docker Swarm with some new authentication provisioning practices.

Some small changes to the startup script for the Percona-Server container image allows us to specify a file that contains password values to set as our root user’s secret. “Why do we need this functionality,” I hear you cry? When we use an environment variable, it’s not terribly hard to locate the value to which someone has set as their database root password. Environment variables are not well suited for sensitive data. We preach against leaving our important passwords in easy to reach places. So moving towards something more secure whilst retaining usability is desirable. …