Intro

In my previous blog post I told you to use SSL/TLS to secure your MySQL network connections. So I followed my advice and did enable SSL. Great!

So first let's quickly verify that everything is working.

So you enabled SSL with mysql_ssl_rsa_setup, used a OpenSSL based build or put ssl-cert, ssl-key and ssl-ca in the mysqld section of your /etc/my.cnf and now show global variables like 'have_SSL'; returns 'YES'.

And you have configured the client with --ssl-mode=PREFERRED. Now show global status like 'Ssl_cipher'; indicates the session is indeed secured.

You could also dump traffic and it looks 'encrypted' (i.e. not readable)...

With SSL enabled everything should be safe isn't it?

The handshake …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.3.3 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a week or so. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

Highlights of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.3 include:

• 3.3 introduces a new Enterprise Backup Dashboard that brings deeper integration with MySQL Enterprise Backup. View current backup status, history and archive details by group or instance using MySQL Enterprise Backup Advisor collections from existing mysql.backup_history and mysql.backup_progress table data.
• Backup Group view shows a summary of backup events, details on the last …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.2.7 is nowavailable for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site.This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You canfind more information on the contents of this release in thechange log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

Important: MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 3.3 offers many significantimprovements over MEM 3.2 and we highly recommend that youconsider upgrading. More information on MEM 3.3 is available here:

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We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.1.7 is nowavailable for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site.This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You canfind more information on the contents of this release in thechange log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

Important: MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 3.3 offers many significantimprovements over MEM 3.1 and MEM 3.2 and we highly recommend that youconsider upgrading. More information on MEM 3.3 is available here:

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Introduction Dealing with time zones is always challenging. As a rule of thumb, it’s much easier if all date/time values are stored in the UTC format, and, if necessary, dealing with time zone conversations in the UI only. This article is going to demonstrate how you can accomplish this task with JDBC and the awesome … Continue reading How to store date, time, and timestamps in UTC time zone with JDBC and Hibernate →

The TEXT and VARCHAR definitions in many db schemas are based on old information – that is, they appear to be presuming restrictions and behaviour from MySQL versions long ago. This has consequences for performance. To us, use of for instance VARCHAR(255) is a key indicator for this. Yep, an anti-pattern.

VARCHAR

In MySQL 4.0, VARCHAR used to be restricted to 255 max. In MySQL 4.1 character sets such as UTF8 were introduced and MySQL 5.1 supports VARCHARs up to 64K-1 in byte length. Thus, any occurrence of VARCHAR(255) indicates some old style logic that needs to be reviewed.

Why not just set the maximum length possible? Well…

A VARCHAR is subject to the character set it’s in, for UTF8 this means either 3 or 4 (utf8mb4) bytes per character can be used. So if one specifies VARCHAR(50) CHARSET utf8mb4, …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20 on March 10, 2017. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.35-26.20 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.35-80.0
• Galera Replication library 3.20
• wsrep API version 26

All Percona software is open-source and free. Details of this …

As we saw earlier, it might be challenging for companies to move their data out of RDS for MySQL. In the first part of this blog, we showed you how to set up your target environment on EC2 and insert a proxy layer (ProxySQL) between your applications and RDS. In this second part, we will show you how to do the actual migration of data to your own server, and then redirect your applications to the new database instance without downtime.

Copying data out of RDS Related resources  MySQL in the Cloud - Online Migration from Amazon RDS to EC2 instance (part 1) …

In our previous blog, we saw how easy it is to get started with RDS for MySQL. It is a convenient way to deploy and use MySQL, without worrying about operational overhead. The tradeoff though is reduced control, as users are entirely reliant on Amazon staff in case of poor performance or operational anomalies. No access to the data directory or physical backups makes it hard to move data out of RDS. This can be a major problem if your database outgrows RDS, and you decide to migrate to another platform. This two-part blog shows you how to do an online migration from RDS to your own MySQL server.

We’ll be using EC2 to run our own MySQL Server. It can be a first step for more complex migrations to your own private datacenters. EC2 gives you access to your data so xtrabackup can be used. EC2 also allows you to setup SSH tunnels and it removes …