In the quest to secure MySQL as well as ease the number of complicated passwords to remember, many organizations are looking into external authentication, especially using LDAP. For free and open source, Percona’s PAM authentication plugin is the standard option.

tl;dr is I go through how to compile php-cli for use with auth_pam plugin.

Background
There are two plugins that can be used. From the documentation, the two plugins are:

• Full PAM plugin called auth_pam. This plugin uses dialog.so. It fully supports the PAM protocol with arbitrary communication between client and server.
• Oracle-compatible PAM called auth_pam_compat. …

Replication in MySQL has been around for a long time, and has been steadily improving over the years. It has been more like evolution rather than revolution. This is perfectly understandable, as replication is an important feature that many depend on - it has to work.

In the last MySQL versions, we’ve seen improvements in replication performance through support for applying transactions in parallel. In MySQL 5.6, parallelization was done on schema level - all transactions which have been executed in separate schemas could be executed at once. This was a nice improvement for those workloads that had multiple schemas on a single server, and the load was distributed more or less evenly across the schemas.

In MySQL 5.7, another parallelization method was added, so called “logical clock”. It allowed to get some level of concurrency on a slave, even if all your data has been stored in a single schema. It was based, in short, on …

In this posting we will look at currently recommended ways of managing passwords in MySQL Docker containers and explore whether the recently introduced concept of Docker Secrets could play a role in this area. Managing runtime secrets in Docker has traditionally been hard to do securely. The MySQL Docker images have typically offered various ways […]

In this post, we are going to explore the way of how to import a .csv file through the command line in dbForge Studio for MySQL. You will not have to waste your valuable time on manually specifying properties each time you need to create a new MySQL table. With this option, you can forget […]

In one of my previous posts, I shared InnoDB table compression statistics for a read-only dataset using the default value of innodb_compression_level (6).  In it, I claimed, without giving much detail, that using the maximum value for the compression level (9) would not make a big difference.  In this post, I will share more details about this claim.

TL;DR: tuning innodb_compression_level is not

In this post I’ll answer questions I received in my Wednesday, July 19, 2017, webinar Learning MySQL 5.7!

First, thank you all who attended the webinar. The link to the slides and the webinar recording can be found here.

I received a number of interesting questions in the webinar that I’ve followed up with below.

Would there be a big difference on passing from 5.1 to 5.6 before going to 5.7 or, at this point, would it be roughly the same?

The biggest risk of jumping between versions, in this case 5.1 to 5.6, is reverting in case of problems. Rollbacks don’t happen often, but they do happen and you have to make …

Airvantage is a Value Added Service Provider for mobile telecommunication networks. Airvantage offers various gaming platforms, and subscriber retention initiatives like emergency airtime, mobile money integration, etc.

A simple solution for staying compliant

Airvantage host each customer’s database on its server (virtual) as they are bound to do so from a legislative perspective. They are presently monitoring several production servers that are spread over various countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Looking at many tools, including ManageEngine and some open source alternatives, Airvantage opted for Monyog for its simplicity, ease of config, and relatively affordable price-tag.

Liam described what he needed was “a complete MySQL monitoring system with early-warning mechanisms which allow him to sleep much better”.  With Monyog, Liam instantly started relying on the 600+ monitors and alerts to become better at …

Airvantage is a Value Added Service Provider for mobile telecommunication networks. Airvantage offers various gaming platforms, and subscriber retention initiatives like emergency airtime, mobile money integration, etc.

A simple solution for staying compliant

Airvantage host each customer’s database on its server (virtual) as they are bound to do so from a legislative perspective. They are presently monitoring several production servers that are spread over various countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Looking at many tools, including ManageEngine and some open source alternatives, Airvantage opted for Monyog for its simplicity, ease of config, and relatively affordable price-tag.

Liam described what he needed was “a complete MySQL monitoring system with early-warning mechanisms which allow him to sleep much better”.  With Monyog, Liam instantly started relying on the 600+ monitors and alerts to become better at …

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JSON in Flat File to MySQL DatabaseSo how do you load that JSON data file into MySQL. Recently I had this question presented to me and I thought I would share a handy script I use to do such work. For this example I will use the US Zip (postal) codes from JSONAR. Download and unzip the file. The data file is named zips.json and it can not be bread directly into MySQL using the SOURCE command. It needs to have the information wrapped in a more palatable fashion.

head zips.json 
{ "city" : "AGAWAM", "loc" : [ -72.622739, 42.070206 ], "pop" : 15338, "state" : "MA", "_id" : "01001" }
{ "city" : "CUSHMAN", "loc" : [ -72.51564999999999, 42.377017 ], "pop" : 36963, "state" : "MA", "_id" : "01002" }
{ "city" : "BARRE", "loc" : [ -72.10835400000001, 42.409698 ], "pop" : 4546, "state" : "MA", "_id" : "01005" }
{ "city" : "BELCHERTOWN", "loc" : [ -72.41095300000001, …