From time to time we see in customer engagements that MySQL Master/Slave replication is set-up doing schema or table level replication filtering. This can be done either on Master or on Slave. If filtering is done on the Master (by the binlog_{do|ignore}_db settings), the binary log becomes incomplete and cannot be used for a proper Point-in-Time-Recovery. Therefore FromDual recommends AGAINST this approach.

The replication filtering rules vary depending on the binary log format (ROW and STATEMENT) See also: How Servers Evaluate Replication Filtering Rules.

For reasons of data consistency between Master and Slave FromDual recommends to use only the binary log format ROW. This is also stated in the …

As written yesterday, on February 3rd, just before Fosdem and the MySQL & Friends Devroom, MySQL’s Community Team is organizing the pre-Fosdem MySQL Day.

The second talk of this series is the session of Bernt Marius Johnsen: MySQL 8.0 & Unicode – What, why and how ?

Bernt is Senior QA Engineer in the MySQL Server Team. He’s working with QA in general but he’s also specialized in character sets and security issues. He also in charge of the development of  test tools automation.

MySQL 8.0 introduces a whole new set of Unicode collations based on Unicode 9.0 for the MySQL utf8mb4 character set. This comes in …

Fossasia 2017 will take place 17th – 19th March 2017 in Singapore.

Like previous edition, MySQL will sponsor this event. This year the organizers are looking for MySQL speakers. So if you are interested to speak about your favorite database and share your experience during Asia’s Premier Open Technology Event, please submit your talk using the following form: 2017.fossasia.org/speaker-registration

I know the deadline is over but they extended it a bit !

Last time we set up a connection from a PHP program to a MySQL server. This time we will progress a little further in that direction. QueryData is asked for from the MySQL server by using a query written in a language named Structured Query Language (SQL). Now that we have a connection open to the server, we can pass out request to the server. Manual LaborThe PHP Manual is wonderful 99% of time. If you take a peek at the page for mysqli::query there is a great example of a simple query. Many of learned to program by copying/pasting from books/manuals and this is a great us of the examples in the PHP manual. Except it may not work for you.

MySQL is usually case SeNsATiVe, so 'A' may not be the same thing as 'a'. But this is dependent to some extent on your operating …

The MySQL database workload is determined by the number of queries that it processes. There are several situations in which MySQL slowness can originate. The first possibility is if there is any queries that are not using proper indexing. When a query cannot make use of an index, the MySQL server has to use more resources and time to process that query. By monitoring queries, you have the ability to pinpoint SQL code that is the root cause of a slowdown.

Related resources  Become a MySQL DBA blog series - Using Explain to improve SQL Queries  Become a MySQL DBA blog series - Optimizer Hints for faster query execution …

The MySQL database workload is determined by the number of queries that it processes. There are several situations in which MySQL slowness can originate. The first possibility is if there is any queries that are not using proper indexing. When a query cannot make use of an index, the MySQL server has to use more resources and time to process that query. By monitoring queries, you have the ability to pinpoint SQL code that is the root cause of a slowdown.

Related resources  Become a MySQL DBA blog series - Using Explain to improve SQL Queries  Become a MySQL DBA blog series - Optimizer Hints for faster query execution …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how to replace MySQL with Percona Server for MySQL on a CPanel, WHM VPS or dedicated server.

In general, CPanel and WHM have been leaning towards support of MariaDB over other flavors. This is partly due to the upstream repos replacing the MySQL package with MariaDB (for example, on CentOS).

MySQL 5.6 is still supported though, which means they are keeping support for core MySQL products. But if you want to get some extra performance enhancements or enterprise features for free, without getting too many bells and whistles, you might want to install Percona Server.

I’ve done this work on a new dedicated server with the latest WHM and CPanel on CentOS 7, with MySQL 5.6 installed. …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how to preserve all MySQL grants and users after reinstalling MySQL.

Every so often, I need to reinstall a MySQL version from scratch and preserve all the user accounts and their permissions (or move the same users and privileges to another server).

As of MySQL 5.7, MySQL does not make this easy! MySQL SHOW GRANTS only shows permissions for one user, and the method suggested on StackExchange – dumping tables containing grants information directly – is not robust (as Rick James mentions in the comments). It also doesn’t work between different MySQL versions.

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Updated 1/11/2017

Quite some time ago, when we added the ability to monitor MySQL query performance statistics from MySQL’s PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, we learned a number of valuable lessons, still worth sharing. There are definitely right and wrong ways to do it. If you are looking to the P_S tables for monitoring MySQL query performance, this blog post might save you some time and mistakes.

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What Is The Performance Schema?

First, a quick introduction. The Performance Schema includes a set of tables that give information on how statements are performing. Most of the P_S tables follow a set of predictable conventions: there’s a set of tables with a limited set of full-granularity current and/or historical data, which is aggregated into tables that accumulate over time. In the case …

On February 3rd, just before Fosdem and the MySQL & Friends Devroom, MySQL’s Community Team is organizing the pre-Fosdem MySQL Day. We increased the amount of seats, so there are still some tickets available, don’t hesitate to register, this will provide you a unique occasion to meet MySQL engineers from Oracle in Europe. We also have very famous speakers from Percona and Booking.com.

Peter Zaitsev himself will deliver a session !

Let’s start this articles series on MySQL Day with my predecessor as MySQL Community Manager and now Product Manager for MySQL Server: Morgan Tocker !

Morgan will open the MySQL Day with …