In this blog post, we’ll look at how to set up Percona PAM with Active Directory for external authentication.

In my previous article on Percona PAM, I demonstrated how to use Samba as a domain, and how easy it is to create domain users and groups via the samba-tool. Then we configured nss-pam-ldapd and nscd to enumerate user and group information via LDAP calls, and authenticate users from this source.

This time around, I will demonstrate two other ways of using Active Directory for external authentication by joining the domain via SSSD or Winbind. System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) allows you to configure …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.2.7. This is a stable (GA) release. See the release notes and changelog for details. Download MariaDB 10.2.7 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.2? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Thanks, and enjoy MariaDB!

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In this blog post, I will run a gh-ost benchmark against the performance of pt-online-schema-change.

When gh-ost came out, I was very excited. As MySQL ROW replication became commonplace, you could use it to track changes instead of triggers. This practice is cleaner and safer compared to Percona Toolkit’s pt-online-schema-change. Since gh-ost doesn’t need triggers, I assumed it would generate lower overhead and work faster. I frequently called it “pt-online-schema-change on steroids” in my talks. …

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

12.2 New Feature: the FLEX ASM disk group part 2

Oracle ASM in Azure corruption – follow up

Set-based processing

ADF 12c BC Proxy User DB Connection and Save Point Error

Enabling A Modern Analytics Platform

SQL Server:

…

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

12.2 New Feature: the FLEX ASM disk group part 2

Oracle ASM in Azure corruption – follow up

Set-based processing

ADF 12c BC Proxy User DB Connection and Save Point Error

Enabling A Modern Analytics Platform

SQL Server:

…

In this blog post, we’ll look at how using thread_statistics can cause high memory usage.

I was recently working on a high memory usage issue for one of our clients, and made some interesting discoveries: high memory usage with no bounds. It was really tricky to diagnose.

Below, I am going to show you how to identify that having thread_statistics enabled causes high memory usage on busy systems with many threads.

Part 1: Issue Background

I had a server with 55.0G of available memory. Percona Server for MySQL version:

Version | 5.6.35-80.0-log Percona Server (GPL), Release 80.0, Revision f113994f31
                 Built On | debian-linux-gnu x86_64

We have …

How can you tell if a given workload on the master could be replicated with many parallel workers on the slave?

The slave_parallel_type=LOGICAL_CLOCK is an implementation of a Lamport clock. The implementation is described in WL #7165 – including a neat little ASCII-art graphic.

Each event in the binary log is stamped with two values:
– The sequence_number increments for each commit
– The last_committed is the sequence_number which was in effect when this transaction entered the prepare phase.

A slave worker cannot begin doing a transaction until the last_committed value is smaller than the sequence_number of all other running threads.

mysqlbinlog mysql-bin.0000x | grep last_committed

#160118 15:31:34 server id 3 …

Fedora 26 is scheduled to arrive today, July 11, and we congratulate the highly productive Fedora community on another rev of many people’s favorite distro. We’re continuing our tradition of supporting new distro releases from day one, and Fedora 26 users will find the following MySQL products in the official MySQL yum repos: MySQL Server […]

With this Monyog release, we will provide monitoring capabilities for RDS/Aurora OS metrics along with an emphasis on the User Experience in several respects including a number of GUI design details. Additionally, the release adds a number of bug fixes and implements a number of user requests.

Changes as compared to Monyog MySQL Monitor 8.0.4 include:

Features:

• It is now possible to get OS metrics from Amazon RDS/Aurora (but not Azure, where interface for same is disabled).
• Added an option to generate a token in Monyog to be used with the MONyog API as an alternative to Monyog user and password.
• Added an option to define a “seconds_behind_master” setting in Replication page determining if the slave should be considered in sync or not. On some environments, slave will rarely be fully in sync and in such cases, the alerting was not really useful before. …

With this Monyog release, we will provide monitoring capabilities for RDS/Aurora OS metrics along with an emphasis on the User Experience in several respects including a number of GUI design details. Additionally, the release adds a number of bug fixes and implements a number of user requests.

Changes as compared to Monyog MySQL Monitor 8.0.4 include:

Features:

• It is now possible to get OS metrics from Amazon RDS/Aurora (but not Azure, where interface for same is disabled).
• Added an option to generate a token in Monyog to be used with the MONyog API as an alternative to Monyog user and password.
• Added an option to define a “seconds_behind_master” setting in Replication page determining if the slave should be considered in sync or not. On some environments, slave will rarely be fully in sync and in such cases, the alerting was not really useful before. …