Last time we looked at a simple example program using the X Devapi and Node.JS. This time lets look at the Python version. Well, not actually the same. This time instead of looking for the Canadian record, the program limits the query to the first two records found.

Besides Python 2.7, you will need to install the Google Protobuf code plus the development release of the Python Connector and a recent version of MySQL 5.7.

The Code

import mysqlx

session = mysqlx.get_session({          # Authenticate to server
  'host':       'localhost',
  'port':       33060,
  'user':       'dstokes',
  'password':   'S3cR3t%'})

# Connect to Schema 'world_x'
schema = session.get_schema('world_x');

# Set collection to 'countryinfo'
collection = …

Percona announces the release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.34-26.19 on December 14, 2016. Binaries are available from the downloads section or our software repositories.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.34-26.19 is now the current release, based on the following:

• Percona Server 5.6.34-79.1
• Galera Replication library 3.19
• wsrep API version 26

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

Any DBA who has administered a busy master knows how fast the disk space occupied by binary logs may grow.  DBAs have no control on this: the growth depends on the workload, and the workload depends on many factors, e.g.:

- application changes (the applications start writing more due to code changes) - traffic changes (the peak season arrive, your workload doubles in size) - infrastructure changes (the devops add more servers) - business changes (new business flows adds to existing workload)
So either you have being thoughtful and have planned in advance for a large enough storage space (to handle the increase in number of binary logs), or,  sooner or later, you will face the usual dilemma - how many retention days dare you give up to accommodate for the binlog growth?
In my case, I was very thoughtful, but the boss didn't listen and gave me servers with very limited binlog storage space and, more important, …

We’ll show you, how to set up MySQL Cluster on Ubuntu. The MySQL NDB Cluster integrates the standard MySQL server with an in-memory clustered storage engine called NDB (Network DataBase). We will use a total of 4 virtual servers, one for the management, one SQL node and two data nodes: 172.16.1.1 – management VPS 172.16.1.2 […]

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.3.7, a new version of the ODBC driver for
the MySQL database management system, has been released.

The available downloads include both a Unicode driver and an ANSI
driver based on the same modern codebase. Please select the driver type
you need based on the type of your application – Unicode or ANSI.
Server-side prepared statements are enabled by default. It is suitable
for use with any MySQL version from 5.5.

This is the fourth release of the MySQL ODBC driver conforming to the
ODBC 3.8 specification. It contains implementations of key 3.8 features,
including self-identification as a ODBC 3.8 driver, streaming of output
parameters (supported for binary types only), and support of the
SQL_ATTR_RESET_CONNECTION connection attribute (for the Unicode driver
only).

Also, Connector/ODBC 5.3 …

One of the most requested features for InnoDB cluster has been Windows support that we have now delivered as part of the InnoDB Cluster 5.7.17 Preview Release 2. This blog post will show you how to get your InnoDB cluster running on your MS Windows 10 64bit system.…

An important thing to know when managing an InnoDB cluster are the states that the cluster can be in, especially to know how to interpret the reported status of the cluster and specifically what to do to recover from failure various scenarios.…

Traditionally, setting up high availability (HA) in MySQL has been a challenging task, especially for people without advanced knowledge of MySQL. From understanding concepts and technologies, to the tooling, specific commands and files to execute and edit, there’s a lot of things you need to know even when planning a test deployment (the Quick Start Guide for Group Replication should give you an idea).…

We carefully listened to the feedback we got from the last preview release and incorporated most of the suggested changes, the rest will follow in the next release.

Here are the highlights of this release!

Remote Instances support

The last preview release of InnoDB cluster only allowed to work with sandbox instances on localhost.…

The MySQL Development Team is happy to announce a new release of the MySQL InnoDB Cluster – 5.7.17 Preview, now available for download at http://labs.mysql.com/. This release contains the following packages.

• MySQL Router 2.1.1 labs & MySQL Shell 1.0.6 labs
  • Download for Windows 10 (also see Windows Tutorial blog post)
  • Download for MacOS 10.12
  • …