Let’s continue the review of the pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day‘s schedule. Today’s session is the one of Sveta Smirnova: What you wanted to know about your MySQL Server instance, but could not find using internal instrumentation only

Sveta Smirnova works as MySQL Support engineer since year 2006, she is also author of book “MySQL Troubleshooting” and author of JSON UDF functions for MySQL. In years 2006 – 2015 she worked in Bugs Analysis MySQL Support Group in MySQL AB, then Sun, then Oracle. In March 2015 Sveta joined Support Team in Percona. In years 2012-2015 she worked on bugs priority. She was also Support representative in MySQL Backup Development Team. She …

Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist Colin Charles on Wednesday, January 18, 2017, at 7:00 am (PST) / 10:00 am (EST) (UTC-8) as he presents “Lessons from Database Failures.”

MySQL failures at scale can teach a great deal. MySQL failures can lead to a discussion about such topics as high availability (HA), geographical redundancy and automatic failover. In this webinar, Colin will present case study material (how automatic failover caused Github to go offline, why Facebook uses assisted failover rather than fully automated failover, and other scenarios) to look at how the MySQL world is making things better. One way, for example, is using …

On February 3rd, just before Fosdem and the MySQL & Friends Devroom, MySQL’s Community Team is organizing the pre-Fosdem MySQL Day.

Today we will review Dag H. Wanvik‘s session. Dag is spending most of his time implementing Windows Functions to MySQL.

Dag H. Wanvik is a senior MySQL developer for Oracle. Before he did Derby/Java DB development for Oracle/Apache Foundation and he is a Derby committer. He last co-authored JSON support for MySQL 5.7. In his previous existence Dag worked on several compilers and HA distributed data base systems.

The title of his session is MySQL 8.0: Window functions – finally!

Dag will share is current work on a …

The InnoDB log file is the transactional log, it captures all the transactions. The transaction log size is a very important factor in determining the performance of a database engine. The variable innodb_log_file_size represents the transactional log size.  This log size can be changed as follows:
Set the required log file size in the MySQL configuration file.

[mysqld]
innodb_log_file_size=xG

Perform the clean shutdown. This can be verified with the help of MySQL error log. A clean shutdown is also known as slow shutdown. This process will perform a full purge of InnoDB buffer pool. The value of the  …

On February 3rd, just before Fosdem and the MySQL & Friends Devroom, MySQL’s Community Team is organizing the pre-Fosdem MySQL Day.

Today’s highlighted sessions are the one of Jean-Françcois Gagné, from Booking.com:

• How Booking.com avoids and deals with replication lag at 12.05
  
• Monitoring Booking.com without looking at MySQL at 15.30
  

Jean-François is working on growing the MySQL/MariaDB installations in Booking.com since he joined in 2013. …

Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured tutorial speakers blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the tutorial speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these tutorials can help you improve your database environment. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live 2017 registration bonus!

In this Percona Live featured tutorial, we’ll meet Morgan Tocker, MySQL Product Manager at Oracle. His tutorial is a MySQL 8.0 Optimizer Guide. Many users who follow MySQL development are aware that recent versions introduced a number of improvements to query execution (via the addition of …

In this blog post, I am going to show how we can use mysqlshell to run ad-hoc data visualizations and use machine learning to predict new outcomes from the data.

Some time ago Oracle released MySQL Shell, a command line client to connect to MySQL using the X protocol. It allows us to use Python or JavaScript scripting capabilities. This unties us from the limitations of SQL, and the possibilities are infinite. It means that MySQL can not only read data from the tables, but also learn from it and predict new values from features never seen before.

Some disclaimers:

• This is not a post about to how to install mysqlshell or enable the X plugin. It should be already installed. Follow the first link if instructions are needed.
• The idea is to show some of the things that can be done from the shell. Don’t expect the …

I have for some years been running the queries of the DBT-3 benchmark, both to verify the effect of new query optimization features, and to detect any performance regressions that may have been introduced. However, I have had issues with getting stable results. While repeated runs of a query is very stable, I can get quite different results if I restart the server. As an example, I got a coefficient of variation (CoV) of 0.1% for 10 repeated executions of a query on the same server, while the CoV for the average runtime of 10 such experiments was over 6%!

With such large variation in results, significant performance regressions may not be noticed. I have tried a lot of stuff to get more stable runs, and in this blog post I will write about the things that I have found to have positive …

Many web hosting provider are looking for HA solution for the database backend they deliver to their customers.

Galera never became the perfect choice for these environment due to 2 factors:

1. no DBA really manage the databases
2. Galera runs database changes in Total Order Isolation

What does that really mean ? In fact, when you are a website hosting provider, you host the website (apache, nginx) on vhosts and you share a database server in which every customer has access to their own schema for their website.

Most of the time, those websites are CMS like Drupal, WordPress or Joomla (and certainly many others sharing the same …

Overview

MySQL Group Replication was released as GA with MySQL 5.7.17. It is essentially a plugin that, when enabled, allows users to set replication with this new way.

There has been some confusion about the stability and usability of this release. Until recently, MySQL Group Replication (MGR) was only available in the Labs, which traditionally denotes a preview or an use-at-your-own-risk feature. Several months ago we saw the release of Group Replication as a Docker image, which allowed users to deploy a peer-to-peer cluster (every node is a master.) However, about one month after such release, word came from Oracle discouraging this setup, and inviting users to use Group Replicator in …