I’ve been lately compiling and generating .deb packages for several MySQL and MariaDB recent versions, and I wanted to try them more in depth -specially MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB 10.2, both of which are still in development.

Several people have already given their first impressions (or will do soon), and testing early is the best way to catch bugs and regressions, and get them fixed before the official release. In fact, as I will comment later, I ran into breaking bugs on both MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB 10.2, which I …

Using the MariaDB Audit Plugin with MySQL geoff_montee_g Tue, 12/06/2016 - 15:10

The MariaDB audit plugin is an audit plugin that is bundled with MariaDB server. However, even though it is bundled with MariaDB, the plugin is actually compatible with MySQL as well. For a step-by-step guide on how to use the plugin with MySQL, check out my blog post here

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Importing InnoDB Partitions in MariaDB 10.0/10.1 geoff_montee_g Tue, 12/06/2016 - 15:02

Transportable tablespaces for InnoDB tables is a very useful feature added in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0. With this new feature, an InnoDB table’s tablespace file can be copied from one server to another, as long as the table uses a file-per-table tablespace.

Unfortunately, the initial transportable tablespace feature in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0 does not support partitioned tables. Support for partitioned tables was added in MySQL 5.7. This feature will also likely be added to MariaDB 10.2 since it will contain …

In MySQL 8.0.0 we introduced many new features; among those, we extended the bit-wise operations to work with binary data. Because of these changes, storing and manipulating IPv6 addresses can be done in an easier manner. In this blog we will take a look at how can you do this for some of the most common use cases.…

The MariaDB audit plugin is an audit plugin that is bundled with MariaDB server. However, even though it is bundled with MariaDB, the plugin is actually compatible with MySQL as well. In this blog post, I will describe how to install the plugin with MySQL. Install the plugin Unfortunately, neither MariaDB Corporation nor MariaDB Foundation currently distribute a standalone binary ... Read More

Transportable tablespaces for InnoDB tables is a very useful feature added in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0. With this new feature, an InnoDB table’s tablespace file can be copied from one server to another, as long as the table uses a file-per-table tablespace. Unfortunately, the initial transportable tablespace feature in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0 does not support partitioned tables. ... Read More

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This webinar will be the second in our series on best practices to follow when using Galera Cluster.

In this part, we will discuss important topics related to multi-master setups:
* Practical considerations when using Galera in a multi-master setup
* Evaluating the characteristics of your database workload
* Preparing your application for multi-master
* Detecting and dealing with transaction conflicts

This is a webinar presented by Codership, the developers and experts of Galera Cluster.

DATE AND TIME FOR USA:  Tuesday, 9-10 AM PST (Pacific ), 13th of December

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Tab housekeeping but I also realise that people seem to have missed announcements, developments, etc. that have happened in the last couple of months (and boy have they been exciting). I think we definitely need something like the now-defunct MySQL Newsletter (and no, DB Weekly or NoSQL Weekly just don’t seem to cut it for me!).

MyRocks

During @scale (August 31), Yoshinori Matsunobu mentioned that MyRocks has been deployed in one region for 5% of its production workload at Facebook.

By October 4 at the …

I neglected to mention my November appearances but I’ll just write trip reports for all this. December appearances are:

• ACMUG MySQL Special Event – Beijing, China – 10 December 2016 – come learn about Percona Server, MyRocks and lots more!
• A bit of a Japan tour, we will be in Osaka on the 17th, Sapporo on the 19th, and Tokyo on the 21st. A bit of talk of the various proxies as well as the various servers that exist in the MySQL ecosystem.

Looking forward to discussing …

This blog post discusses the business continuity plan around MySQL backups, and how organizations should think about them.

During the years I’ve worked in IT, I’ve learned that backups sometimes are a conceptual subject in organizations. Many companies have them, but don’t document the associated business continuation plan for them. I experienced this the hard way many many years ago, somewhere around when MySQL 5.0 was still widely used.

In most organizations, there are a couple of business continuity subjects that should be described internally. For example, what is the recovery time objective and what is the recovery point objective. Let’s go a bit deeper into both concepts:

Recovery Point Objective:

A recovery point objective describes the utter limit of time data …