A much requested feature has made it to MySQL 5.7.6: Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) can now be enabled online, without stopping writes, synchronizing servers, or restarting servers.

We introduced GTIDs in MySQL 5.6.6. GTIDs allow, among other things, seamless fail-over after a master has crashed. This enables highly available applications, since service can continue without interruption even if the master crashes. For new deployments, you could easily enable GTIDs right away – just set gtid-mode=ON in the configuration files. For deployments that accept a certain amount of downtime, you could switch from off to on too. However, for big deployments with strict limitations on downtime, this was more problematic, since you had to stop updates, sync all servers, and restart all servers simultaneously with GTIDs enabled, and this would lead to several minutes of downtime.

In MySQL 5.7.6, we have now made it possible to enable …

More Awesome Replication Features in 5.7.6

It is time to celebrate again. The latest MySQL server development milestone (MySQL 5.7.6) was just released, and let me tell you, it is full of great replication enhancements. These new improvements cover many areas, ranging from performance to flexibility and easier deployment. Let me highlight some of them, and give you a brief summary of what they are.

Multi-source Replication

A MySQL 5.7.6 slave/server can now connect to multiple MySQL masters.

After a long development period, two labs releases, handling feedback from community, and a lot of internal (and external testing as well – thank you!), the multi-source replication feature was finally pushed into MySQL 5.7. This is a major milestone for replication itself. The feature allows a single MySQL server to aggregate …

MySQL Replication is very simple to set up. In this post I’ll discuss its importance and five handy tools for monitoring and managing MySQL replication.

What is MySQL Replication? It’s the process of copying the (real-time events) data from one master instance to another slave instance and maintaining the redundant consistent data in a different machine. This enables a distributed database system that shares the same level of information.

In MySQL the replication works based on the three threads as shown below.

1) I/O thread on the slave server:  To start on receiving replication events, an I/O thread starts on the slave server and connects to the master server.

2) Master connection handler thread:  As a connection handier, master starts a thread whenever a replication slave connects to a master. The master server sends the events from its binary log file to the slave I/O thread, notifying slave …

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January 30, 2015 By Severalnines

Thanks to everyone who participated in these two sessions this week! Please see below for details on next week’s follow up session 'Performance Tuning for HAProxy & MySQL'.

The topics covered this week included: 

• What is HAProxy?
• SQL Load balancing for MySQL
• Failure detection using MySQL health checks
• High Availability with Keepalived and Virtual IP
• Use cases: MySQL/MariaDB Galera Cluster, MySQL NDB …

Users seeking high availability, disaster recovery and zero downtime maintenance operation for business-critical MySQL applications face confusing choices. Is multi-master or master/slave clustering better? What about synchronous versus asynchronous replication? Using a plain vanilla, stock MySQL or a modified version of it? Which of these choices are right for data-driven businesses that

Oracle have just made availble the Release Candidate for MySQL Cluster 7.4 (MySQL Cluster 7.4.3) – it can be downloaded from the development release tab here. Note that this is not a GA release and so we wouldn’t recommend using it in production.

The delta between this RC and the 7.4.2 DMR can be viewed in the MySQL Cluster 7.4.3 Release Notes

There are three main focus areas for this RC and the purpose of this post is to briefly introduce them:

• Active-Active (Multi-Master) Replication
• Performance
• Operational improvements (speeding up of restarts; enhanced memory …

November 20, 2014 By Severalnines

Multi-source replication means that one server can have multiple masters from which it replicates. Why multi-source? One good reason is to consolidate databases (e.g. merge your shards) for analytical reporting or as a centralized backup server. MariaDB 10 already has this feature, and MySQL 5.7 will also support it. 

It is possible to set up your Galera Cluster as an aggregator of your masters in a multi-source replication setup, we’ll walk you through the steps in this blog. Note that the howto is for Galera Cluster for MySQL (Codership) and Percona XtraDB Cluster. In a separate post, we’ll show you how to configure MariaDB Cluster 10 instead. If you would like to use MySQL Cluster (NDB) as aggregator, then check out this blog.

Galera …

I will be talking at Open Source India scheduled at NIMHANS convention center at Bangalore on 7th and 8th of Nov 2014.

Oracle has been associated with the Open Source India conference for the past 4 years and this will be the 5th year when we will be taking part in this conference and talking about MySQL to the open source community.

OSI gives us a great opportunity and a platform to speak to and hear from the open source community. There have been some great interactions with developers, users, customers of MySQL and some really great people involved with the open source movement in India.

We look forward to interact with the open source community again. While we will likely learn much this conference about the progress of the open source community in India, we will also be informing you about the fantastic progress Oracle has made with MySQL in the past year. …