As a principal architect at Percona, one of my duties is to tune MySQL database servers for our customers. The tuning effort looks at every aspect of the database service like the operating system, the MySQL configuration, the schema, the queries, etc. We have well-defined processes to tune the operating system and the MySQL configuration. However, tuning the schema and the queries using it can be anywhere from trivial to extremely challenging.

The challenge with the schema and the queries is mostly with the indexes. The most common types of indexes are based on b-trees or hash lists. InnoDB doesn’t support hash indexes, a bummer for equality conditions. B-tree indexes are more general-purpose, they are decent for equality conditions and very good for range conditions. They are however quite heavy and very dependent on the defined order of columns. They are also poor for double range conditions.

Double range conditions can be …

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What is the LAMP stack?

The LAMP stack is a well-established combination of 4 pieces of software that form one of the most robust web application architecture stacks.

LAMP is actually an acronym created from the 1st letter of the name of each of the 4 components it is built from:

1. Linux – The operating system. …

If you write C applications that need to connect to MySQL, you can use the MySQL C API aka libmysqlclient. The MySQL C API replaces the outdated MySQL-Connector-C.

If you want to use MySQL 8.0 as a Document Store with the X Protocol, you need then to use MySQL Connector/C++ 8.0.

Some have asked how to compile only the MySQL C API.

Compiling only libmysqlclient

As the FAQ stipulates it, it’s not possible to only build the library. However, as mentioned in the documentation, it’s possible to reduce the amount of compiled products with some …

There are two Operators at Percona to deploy MySQL on Kubernetes:

• one is based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), production-ready and widely adopted
• another is based on Percona Server for MySQL, now in tech preview and not recommended for production yet

We wrote a blog post in the past explaining the thought process and reasoning behind creating the new Operator for MySQL. The goal for us is to provide production-grade solutions to run MySQL in Kubernetes and support various replication configurations:

• Synchronous replication
  …

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In OpenLampTech issue #34, we have curated content covering:

• WP-CLI
• Is Drupal a shark?
• MySQL backslashes
• WordPress vs Laravel
• CodeIgniter 4 CRUD App
• And much much more

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Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-20 introduces a new keyring component, component_keyring_kms, which allows using the AWS Key Management Service as a keyring. The component is also included in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.28, allowing backing up databases encrypted with this component.

The feature is similar to the AWS keyring plugin included in MySQL Enterprise, but it is implemented as a component instead, and because of that, it requires a different configuration.

Configuring AWS KMS

The component uses a single Master Key on KMS, which has to be created manually before configuring the component. This key can also be changed later, and existing keys using the old key will remain usable, as long as the key still exists …

In this article I will show you how to properly configure Apache Zeppelin in order to take advantage of the Analytics and Machine Learning capabilities of MySQL HeatWave the MySQL in-memory query accelerator.

The post Interactively explore & visualize your MySQL HeatWave data with Apache Zeppelin first appeared on dasini.net - Diary of a MySQL expert.

The publication is growing and we are sharing the good stuff in this OpenLampTech newsletter issue. Developer interviews, a curated WordPress resource, and the LAMP stack coverage you expect are all coming at ya in issue #33…

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• Symfony components
• Is SQL Programming?
• WordPress FSE vs dynamic templating
• CakePHP CRUD
• Linux command-line practice articles
• And, much much more…

Imagine you need to design an online system for storing documents on a per-user basis where nobody, including database administrators, would be able to change the content of those documents without being noticed by document owners.

In Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.28-20, we added a new component called Encryption UDFs – an open-source alternative to MySQL Enterprise Encryption that allows users to access a number of low-level OpenSSL encryption primitives directly from MySQL. This includes calculating digests (with a great variety of hash functions), asymmetric key generation (RSA, …

I’m sharing another tip for anyone who wants to learn more about MySQL and how to use it. This post covers an example of the differences in columns specified in the WHERE clause but not the SELECT clause and vice-versa.

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