Some time ago, I published the article on AWS Aurora Benchmarking (AWS Aurora Benchmarking – Blast or Splash?), in which I analyzed the behavior of different solutions using synchronous replication in AWS environment. This blog follows up with some of the comments and suggestions I received regarding that post from the community and Amazon engineers.

I decided to perform another round of tests, keeping in mind comments and suggestions received.

I presented some of the results during the Percona conference in Santa Clara last April 2016. The following is the transposition that presentation, with more details.

Not interested in the preliminary descriptions? Go to the results section

Why new tests?

This Log Buffer Edition goes through various blogs, and selects some of the top posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

MOS Note:136697.1 – New HCHECK.SQL for Oracle Database 12c

ORAchk / EXAchk questions.

Cloud control won’t start!

ASMLib is an optional utility that can be used on Linux systems to manage Oracle ASM devices.

ORA-56841: Master Diskmon cannot connect to a …

Could this be Oracle’s influence? has this improved with recent versions?

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.30-76.3 on May 25, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.30, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.30-76.3 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free …

Thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for our ClusterControl 1.3 release webinar!

Johan Andersson, CTO at Severalnines and creator of ClusterControl, walked us through the latest features of the 1.3 release and demonstrated them live as well. In addition to an overview of ClusterControl’s deployment, monitoring, management and scaling functionalities for MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, MongoDB and PostgreSQL, Johan focussed our attention on new features around key management, operational reports and more.

One feature-set that triggered particular interest in yesterday’s audience was the automated deployment of a production setup of NDB / MySQL Cluster: users can create a production setup of NDB/MySQL Cluster from ClusterControl and deploy management, SQL/API and data nodes - all via the ClusterControl interface.

The replay of this webinar and the slides are now available for viewing online:

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A customer reported last month that MySQL does a full table scan (FTS) if a query was filtered by a INT value on a VARCHAR column. First I told him that this is not true any more because MySQL has fixed this behaviour long time ago. He showed me that I was wrong:

CREATE TABLE `test` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `data` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ts` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `data` (`data`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM test WHERE data = 42\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: SIMPLE
        table: test
   partitions: NULL
         type: ALL
possible_keys: data
          key: NULL
      key_len: NULL
          ref: NULL
         rows: 522500
     filtered: 10.00
        Extra: Using where

EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM test WHERE data = …

I posted recently Lossless RBR for MySQL 8.0 about a concern I have about moving to minimal RBR in MySQL 8.0.  This seems to be the direction that Oracle is considering, but I am not sure it is a good idea as a default setting. I talked about a hypothetical new replication mode lossless RBR and also about … Continue reading The differences between IDEMPOTENT and AUTO-REPAIR mode

The post The differences between IDEMPOTENT and AUTO-REPAIR mode first appeared on Simon J Mudd's Blog.

In this blog, we’ll look at the MySQL 5.7 document store feature, and how it is implemented.

Document Store

MySQL 5.7.12 is a major new release, as it contains quite a number of new features:

1. Document store and “MongoDB” like NoSQL interface to JSON storage
2. Protocol X / X Plugin, which can be used for asynchronous queries (I will write about it as well)
3. New MySQL shell

Peter already wrote the document store overview; in this post, I will look deeper into the document store implementation. In my next post, I will demonstrate how to use document store for Internet of Things (IoT) and event logging.

Older MySQL 5.7 …

In this blog post we’ll discuss pt-online-schema-change, and how to correctly use it.

Always use pt-osc?

Altering large tables can be still a problematic DBA task, even now after we’ve improved Online DDL features in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7. Some ALTER types are still not online, or sometimes just too expensive to execute on busy production master.

So in some cases, we may want to apply an

ALTER

 first on slaves, taking them out of traffic pool one by one and bringing them back after the

ALTER

 is done. In the end, we can promote one of the already altered slaves to be new master, so that the downtime/maintenance time is greatly minimized. The ex-master can be altered later, without affecting production. Of course, this method works best when the schema change is …

Join Sveta on Thursday, May 26, 2016, at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) for her webinar Troubleshooting MySQL hardware resource usage.

MySQL does not just run on its own. It stores data on disk, and stores data and temporarily results in memory. It uses CPU resources to perform operations, and a network to communicate with its clients.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss common resource usage issues, how they affect MySQL Server performance, and methods to find out how resources are being used. We will employ both OS-level tools, and new features in Performance Schema that provide detailed information on what exactly is happening inside MySQL Server.

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