In this post, we’ll use a blog poll to find out what operating system you use to run your production database servers.

As databases grow to meet more challenges and expanding application demands, they must try and get the maximum amount of performance out of available resources. How they work with an operating system can affect many variables, and help or hinder performance. The operating system you use for your database can impact consumable choices (such as hardware and memory). The operation system you use can also impact your choice of database engine as well (or vice versa).

Please let us know what operating system you use to run your database. For this poll, we’re asking which operating system you use to actually run your production database server (not the base operating system).

If you’re running …

Recently I posted a blog on my time attending a DevOps event in Toronto.  In that blog I had intended to focus on the conference and highlight some of the topics that stood out for me.  In this blog though, I wanted to share what others were doing with containers like Docker, and particularly and… Read More »

We sat down with Severalnines Senior Support Engineer Krzysztof Książek to discuss the upcoming webinar MySQL Tutorial - Backup Tips for MySQL, MariaDB & Galera Cluster.

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HopsFS that implements Hadoop HDFS on top of MySQL Cluster 7.5
won the IEEE Scale Challenge 2017.

HopsFS demonstrated a workload that scaled to more than 1 million
file operations per second. HopsFS is an application that uses
our native Java API called ClusterJ to implement Hadoop HDFS.

I recently attended DevOpsDays Toronto 2017, my first proper DevOpsDaysTO event.  I had the pleasure of attending and being able to immerse myself in this openly collaborative and supportive culture of IT professionals.  The variety of considerations expressed for delivering software features in a rapidly, frequently and reliable release focused manner was really intriguing….but not without its own complexities.… Read More »

In this blog post, I’ll look at how ProxySQL Admin behaves in some unusual and unexpected ways from a MySQL perspective.

ProxySQL allows you to connect to its admin interface using the MySQL protocol and use familiar tools, like the MySQL command line client, to manage its configuration as a set of configuration tables. This ability may trick you into thinking that you’re working with a stripped-down MySQL server – and expect it to behave like MySQL. 

It would be a mistake to think this! In fact, ProxySQL embeds the SQLite database to store its configuration. As such, it behaves much closer to SQLite!

Below, I’ll show you a few things that confused me at first. All of these are as of ProxySQL 1.3.6 (in case behavior changes in the future).

Fake support for Use command

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MySQL documentation has much improved code examples now: There's syntax highlighting in place, and code snippets can easily be copied to the clipboard. Highlighting is language-aware (including "languages" like the shell/command line). See, for example, this page from the X DevAPI documentation that contains a number of code examples for different programming languages.

Syntax highlighting is a project we planned a year ago, but it turned out to be more complex than we thought it would be. One of the major challenges was performance -- we didn't want the new function to slow down page loading, which is what many highlighting plugins do. Eventually, our striving Web team gave prism.js a try, which works like a charm and doesn't impact performance at all. The Web team also created a little …

MySQL documentation has greatly improved code examples now: There's syntax highlighting in place, and code snippets can easily be copied to the clipboard. Highlighting is language-aware (including "languages" like the shell/command line). See, for example, this page from the X DevAPI documentation that contains a number of code examples for different programming languages.

Syntax highlighting is a project we planned a year ago, but it turned out to be more complex than we thought it would be. One of the major challenges was performance -- we didn't want the new function to slow down page loading, which is what many highlighting plugins do. Eventually, our striving Web team gave prism.js a try, which works like a charm and doesn't impact performance at all. The Web team also created a little …

In this first of a series of blog posts, we’ll look at MySQL encryption at rest.

At Percona, we work with a number of clients that require strong security measures for PCI, HIPAA and PHI compliance, where data managed by MySQL needs to be encrypted “at rest.” As with all things open source, there several options for meeting the MySQL encryption at rest requirement. In this three-part series, we cover several popular options of encrypting data and present the various pros and cons to each solution. You may want to evaluate which parts of these tutorials work best for your situation before using them in production.

Part one of this series is implementing disk-level encryption using crypt+LUKS.

In MySQL 5.7, InnoDB has built-in encryption features. This solution has some cons, …