This blog reports the results of Percona’s database security poll.

As Peter Zaitsev mentioned recently in his blog post on database support, the data breach costs can hit both your business reputation and your bottom line. Costs vary depending on the company size and market, but recent studies estimate direct costs ranging in average from $1.6M to 7.01M. Everyone agrees leaving rising security risks and costs unchecked is a recipe for disaster.

Reducing security-based outages doesn’t have a simple answer, but can be a combination of internal and external monitoring, support contracts, enhanced security …

In this blog post, I’ll provide my thoughts about Consul for ProxySQL service discovery and automation.

I approached Consul recently while looking for a service discovery and configuration automation solution for ProxySQL. My colleague Nik Vyzas wrote a great post on this topic, and I suggest you read it. I wrote this article to share my first impressions of Consul (for whomever it might interest).

Consul is a complete service discovery solution. In this respect it differs from its alternative etcd, which only provides a foundation to build such solutions.

Consul consists of a single, small binary (the Linux binary is 24MB). You just download it, edit the configuration file and start the program. It doesn’t …

Just as you use a database like MySQL to store your application data, MySQL must also store its meta data (schema names, table definitions etc) somewhere. Traditionally this meta data storage has been split between many different locations (.FRM, .PAR, .OPT, .TRN and .TRG files).…

I’ve uploaded the slides from my latest talks at OpenWorld and Percona Live, available below. These are mostly an updated version of previous talks, with some new info added here and there..

MySQL sys schema deep dive (Oracle OpenWorld 2016)

Performance schema and sys schema (Percona Live Amsterdam 2016)

The slides of my joint tutorial with Kenny Gryp from Percona on MySQL InnoDB Cluster and Group Replication are now online.

We got nice questions during the session and very good feedback.

MySQL Group Replicatio in a nutshell – MySQL InnoDB Cluster from Frédéric Descamps

First of all I want to say thanks to Thomas that sent me feedback on part1 (see his comment). And indeed all three cases were able to defeat the datamasking.

I rewrote then the rules to also take those cases in consideration:

ProxySQL> DELETE FROM mysql_query_rules where rule_id  INSERT INTO mysql_query_rules 
          (rule_id,active,username,match_pattern,replace_pattern,apply)  
          VALUES (1,1,'devel','`cc_num`',"cc_num",0);
ProxySQL> INSERT INTO mysql_query_rules 
          (rule_id,active,username,match_pattern,replace_pattern,apply)  
           VALUES (2,1,'devel','^[sS][eE][lL][eE][cC][tT] (.*)cc_num([ ,\n])(.*)',
           "SELECT \1CONCAT(LEFT(cc_num,2),REPEAT('X',10)) cc_num\2\3",1);

However the current recursive implementation of ProxySQL (using flagIN & flagOUT) is not an option to face the case where a …

This is the video from LaraconEU 2016 on Making the Most out of MySQL.

The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0.4 m3. Note that this is a development preview release and not intended for production usage.

MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0.4 m3 is the third development preview release of the MySQL for Visual Studio 2.0 series.  This series adds support for the new X DevAPI. The X DevAPI enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL.

To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/. For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in MySQL for Visual Studio, and its usage, see …

Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.

Percona Live Amsterdam is just finished… there was an entire room full day about MySQL 8.0 which is wonderful but there was also another product that everybody was talking about: ProxySQL (great job René).

Ronald Bradford and the MySQL engineering team were discussing about what tool was missing in the MySQL ecosystem and Mark Leith highlighted that a datamasking utility was really missing.

Having used already ProxySQL for Group Replication and other tests, I knew that it would be possible to use it also for this purpose. After a very short discussion and a nightly chat with …