In this blog post, I discuss some of the insights needed when using Amazon RDS and pt-online-schema-change together.

The pt-online-schema-change tool runs DDL queries (ALTER) online so that the table is not locked for reads and writes. It is a commonly used tool by community users and customers. Using it on Amazon RDS requires knowing about some specific details. First, a high-level explanation of how the tool works.

This is an example from the documentation:

pt-online-schema-change --alter "ADD COLUMN c1 INT" D=sakila,t=actor

The tool runs an ALTER on the table “actor” from the database “sakila.” The alter adds a column named “c1” of type …

MySQL Connector/Net 7.0.3 is the second development release of MySQL Connector/Net  7.0 series.

MySQL Connector/Net 7.0 adds support for the new X DevAPI which enables 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 this User’s Guide. For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in Connector/Net, please check the official product documentation.

Please note that the X DevAPI requires at least MySQL Server version 5.7.12 or higher with the X Plugin enabled. For general documentation about how to get started using MySQL as a …

With the time MySQL as database getting better in terms of High performance , scalability and security.
MySQL 5.7 new features : http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html

As a MySQL user my favorites are from above list:

•  New options for replication :
  Changing replication filters online including and excluding table/db and enabling GTID transaction online.
•  InnoDB related changes:
  Online buffer pool resize and many defaults are changed to more secure and optimized values.
• Security features :
  Improved User authentication like default users, SSL and data encryption with key capabilities in order to secure overall database.
• Monitoring and analysis statistics :
  Improved performance schema for live transactions analysis …

This article discusses how to salvage a crashed pt-online-schema-change by leveraging pt-archiver and executing queries to ensure that the data gets accurately migrated. I will show you how to continue the data copy process, and how to safely close out the pt-online-schema-change via manual operations such as RENAME TABLE and DROP TRIGGER commands. The normal process to recover from a crashed pt-online-schema-change is to drop the triggers on your original table and drop the new table created by the script. Then you would restart pt-online-schema-change. In this case, this wasn’t possible.

A customer recently needed to add a primary key column to a very busy table (with around 200 million rows). The table only had a …

Recently I experimented with column-level privileges in MySQL. Column-level privileges are fairly straightforward, but given how infrequently they are used I think there are a few areas worth discussing.

Here are a few high-level observations:

• Users can execute INSERT and UPDATE statements that affect columns they don't have privileges on, as long as they rely on implicit defaults
• Since SQL is row-based, it doesn't make sense to support column-level DELETE privileges, thus only SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE are supported
• You can grant privileges on multiple columns in one GRANT statement or multiple GRANT statements, the results are cumulative

Read on for more details on each type of …

Docker presents new levels of portability and ease of use when it comes to deploying systems. We have for some time now released Dockerfiles and scripts for MySQL products, and are not surprised by it steadily gaining traction in the development community.…

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

MySQL 5.7 introduced many new facets to password security. The first thing most notice is that you are assigned a random root password at installation time. You then have to search the log file for this random password, use it to login, and then change it. For the examples on the post I am using a fresh install of 5.7.13 on Oracle Linux 7.1 and was provided with the easy to remember password of nLvQRk7wq-NY which to me looked like I forgot to hit escape when trying to get out of vim. A quick ALTER USER to change the password and you are on your way. Defaults Password Lifetime and Complexity5.7.13 now has the default password lifetime set to 0 or 'never expire'. My fresh install shows that the value of mysql.user.password_lifetime is set to NULL which …

In this post, I’ll share my experience attending the annual MySQL User Group Leaders Summit in Bucharest, Romania.

The MySQL User Group Leaders Summit gathers together as many of the global MySQL user group leaders as possible. At the summit, we discuss further actions on how we can better act for their local communities. This year, it focused primarily on cloud technologies.

As the Azerbaijan MySQL User Group leader, I felt a keen responsibility to go. I wanted to represent our group and learn as much as possible to take back to with me. Mingling and having conversations with other group leaders helps give me more ideas about how to spread the MySQL word!

The Conference

I attended three MySQL presentations:

• Guided tour on the …

I was recently asked this question by an experienced academic at the NY Oracle Users Group event I presented at.

Does MySQL support ACID? (ACID is a set of properties essential for a relational database to perform transactions, i.e. a discrete unit of work.)

Yes, MySQL fully supports ACID, that is Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Duration. (*)

This is contrary to the first Google response found searching this question which for reference states “The standard table handler for MySQL is not ACID compliant because it doesn’t support consistency, isolation, or durability”.

The question is however not a simple Yes/No because it depends on timing …