When InnoDB transportable tablespaces was introduced in 5.6 it did not support partitions since it could be accomplished in combination with EXCHANGE PARTITION. To make it easier to use transportable tablespaces for partitioned tables we added support for DISCARD/IMPORT TABLESPACE for partitioned tables as well as single partitions in 5.7.4.To get a consistent full copy of the tablespace files one use FLUSH TABLES <list of tables> FOR EXPORT: 

# Flush all dirty pages to the tablespaces and write a .cfg file per tablespace
mysql> FLUSH TABLE …

Monday 31 March 2014 proved to be a big day for MySQL with 5 announcements of products getting new releases: the next milestone release MySQL Server 5.7.4, MySQL Workbench 6.1 going GA and Connector/J 5.1.30 and MySQL Utilities 1.4.2 RC which include MySQL Fabric. That’s 4, the fifth being Connector/Python.

Connector/Python v1.2.1 has been released as Release Candidate. Check out the  …

We are very happy to introduce an new MySQL utility called 'mysqlrplsync' that can check the data consistency of an active replication system. This utility is one of the new utilities included in MySQL Utilities release-1.4.2 RC. The other utility is the multi-source replication utility, mysqlrplms.

In a nutshell, the mysqlrplsync utility allows you to check the data consistency between servers in an active replication system. The utility reports missing databases and tables as well as data differences (per table) between the servers. A sophisticated synchronization algorithm that utilizes a table checksum is applied on the active replication servers to locate differences in the data.

Main FeaturesBesides permitting the data consistency check of an active replication system, here are the main features of the mysqlrplsync utility:

• Allows the comparison of a specific set of servers, providing …

 After intensive testing and hack, we started using Semi-Synchronous MySQL Replication at Facebook production environments. Semi-Synchronous Replication itself was ready since MySQL 5.5 (GA was released 3.5 years ago!), but I'm pretty sure not many people have used in production so far. Here are summary of our objective, enhancements and usage patterns. If you want to hear more in depth, please feel free to ask me at Percona Live this week.

Objective / Why Semisync?   The objective of the Semi-Synchronous Replication is simple -- Master Failover without data loss, without full durability.

 First, let me describe why the objective is difficult without semisync.

 There are a couple of fast slave promotion (master failover) solutions. My own MHA covers both fully automated and semi-automated MySQL failover …

What’s the connection between databases and fruit flies?
Some of you may be familiar with the bestseller in business literature The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. In his book, Prof. Christensen compared disk drives to fruit flies. The comparison relates to the rapid changes that disrupted the disk drive industry for decades. That disruption is compared to the rapid changes that take place to fruit flies that live only for few hours, and for this reason researchers can study and analyse their behaviour.

In the software business, you can replace disk drives with databases. Obviously, databases live longer than fruit flies, but it is an industry that sometimes shows schizophrenic changes. Whilst it is true that relational databases have being dominated the scene for decades, readers with grey hair and reading glasses have …

We were very pleased to make the following announcement yesterday:

"Oracle Improves Database Performance with Latest Development Milestone Release for MySQL 5.7
New Release of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database is 2x Faster than MySQL 5.6 and Over 3x Faster than MySQL 5.5 in Benchmark Tests

News Summary: Continuing to lead MySQL innovation, Oracle announced the immediate availability of a new Development Milestone Release for MySQL 5.7. To meet the demands of today’s web, cloud, and embedded applications, the new release extends the performance, scalability and reliability of MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database, while also enhancing management capabilities. In addition, Oracle announced the availability of several other MySQL product releases and early access features."

The full press release is available …

In my last blog post I explained how to use Percona ClusterControl to create a new Percona XtraDB Cluster from scratch. That’s a good option when you want to create a testing environment in just some mouse clicks. In this case I’m going to show you how to add your existing cluster to Percona ClusterControl so you can manage and monitor it on the web interface.

The environment will be pretty similar, we will have UI, CMON and 3 XtraDB Cluster nodes. The cluster should be already running and Percona ClusterControl also installed.

Adding an existing Cluster

The ClusterControl web interface is empty, there are no clusters on it. To add an existing one …

This post is an extension to my earlier posts about multi master replication cluster multi master replication in mysql and mysql multi master replication act II The problem I had encountered and discussed was with automatic failover. What happens when the master goes down? How can either a slave or another master be promoted to become the master? Once the settings are done on all the mysql dbs

I released MHA version 0.56 today. Downloads are available here. MHA 0.56 includes below features.

• Supporting MySQL 5.6 GTID. If GTID and auto position is enabled, MHA automatically does failover with GTID SQL syntax, not using traditional relay log based failover. You don't need any explicit configuration within MHA to use GTID based failover.
• Supporting MySQL 5.6 Multi-Threaded slave
• Supporting MySQL 5.6 binlog checksum
• MHA supports new section [binlogN]. In binlog section, you can define mysqlbinlog streaming servers. When MHA does GTID based failover, MHA checks binlog servers, and if binlog servers are ahead of other …

As you saw in the press release, MySQL Fabric 1.4.2 is now released! If you're interested in learning more about MySQL Fabric, there is a session April 3, 2014 11:10–12pm titled Sharding and Scale-out using MySQL Fabric in Ballroom G.

MySQL Fabric is a relatively new project in the MySQL ecosystem and it focuses on building a framework for working with large deployments of MySQL Servers. The architecture of MySQL Fabric is such that it allows extensions to be added and the first two extensions that we added were support for high-availability using High-Availability groups (HA groups) and sharding to manage very large databases. The first version of sharding have hash and range sharding implemented as well as …