Many thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s first part of our webinar trilogy on MySQL Query Tuning. This time we looked at the process and tools to consider when tuning MySQL queries. It was an interactive session with interesting feedback and questions, some of which we’d like to share in this blog.

The majority of this week’s participants currently use MySQL 5.6 or 5.7 (54%), followed by Percona Server 5.6 or 5.7. It was nice to see that many of our participants are on the most recent versions of their databases of choice. As we discussed query tuning, we also found that 100% of participants use slow log to collect their slow queries as well as other tools, such as tcpdump or performance schema. And everyone seems to run full query reviews, whether it’d be monthly, quarterly or yearly …

You can view the detail of the polls we ran during the webinar below in this blog or by watching the replay.

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Deploying MyRocks to a database tier in one of our data center regions enabled a 50 percent reduction in storage requirements.

After having played with MySQL Group Replication and HAProxy, it’s time to show you how easy it’s to setup MySQL HA with ProxySQL.

ProxySQL is a high performance open source proxy for MySQL. It has many features that invite you to discover on proxysql.com and on github.

If you remember, I wrote in my last post that it is recommended to use Group Replication with only one WRITER group member. As it is the preferred architecture, I will show you how to achieve this using ProxySQL. With ProxySQL, you don’t need to have two different interfaces to split reads and writes.

In fact, when you use ProxySQL, you have a much larger amount of options to route your queries. In production, the smart DBA, will identify …

“Isn’t it ironic that in 2016 a non-skilled user can find a web page from Google’s untold petabytes of data in millisecond time, but a highly trained SQL expert can’t do the same thing in a relational database one billionth the size?.–Jim Starkey.

I have interviewed Jim Starkey. A database legend, Jim’s career as an entrepreneur, architect, and innovator spans more than three decades of database history.

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Q1. In your opinion, what are the most significant advances in databases in the last few years?

Jim Starkey: I’d have to say the “atom programming model” where a database is layered on a substrate of peer-to-peer replicating distributed objects rather than disk files. The atom programming model enables scalability, redundancy, high availability, and distribution not available in traditional, disk-based database …

This article demonstrates how MySQL sharding with ProxySQL works.

Recently a colleague of mine asked me to provide a simple example on how ProxySQL performs sharding.

In response, I’m writing this short tutorial in the hope it will illustrate ProxySQL’s sharding functionalities, and help people out there better understand how to use it.

ProxySQL is a very powerful platform that allows us to manipulate and manage our connections and queries in a simple but effective way. This article shows you how.

Before starting let’s clarify some basic concepts.

• ProxySQL organizes its internal set of servers in Host Groups (HG), and each HG can be associated with users and Query Rules (QR)
• Each QR can be final (apply = 1) or = let ProxySQL continue to parse other QRs
• A QR can be a rewrite action, be a simple match, have a specific target HG, or be generic
• QRs are defined …

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The countdown is on for the annual Percona Live Europe Open Source Database Conference! This year the conference will be taking place in the great city of Amsterdam October 3-5. This three-day conference will focus on the latest trends, news and best practices in the MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and other open source databases, while tackling subjects such as analytics, architecture and design, security, operations, scalability and performance. Percona Live provides in-depth discussions for your high-availability, IoT, cloud, big data and other changing business needs.

With breakout sessions, tutorial sessions and keynote speakers, there will …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.17 and MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.27. See the release notes and changelogs for details on these releases. Download MariaDB 10.1.17 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.1? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 10.0.27 Release Notes Changelog What […]

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Welcome to a new Percona Live Europe featured talk with Percona Live Europe 2016: Amsterdam speakers! In this series of blogs, we’ll highlight some of the speakers that will be at this year’s conference. We’ll also discuss the technologies and outlooks of the speakers themselves. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live Europe registration bonus!

In this Percona Live Europe featured talk, we’ll meet Alexander Krasheninnikov, Head of Data Team at Badoo. His talk will be on Processing 11 billions events a day with Spark in Badoo. Badoo is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing social networks …

In the previous blog post, we looked into Docker’s single-host networking for MySQL containers. This time, we are going to look into the basics of multi-host networking and Docker swarm mode, a built-in orchestration tool to manage containers across multiple hosts.

Docker Engine - Swarm Mode

Running MySQL containers on multiple hosts can get a bit more complex depending on the clustering technology you choose.

Before we try to run MySQL on containers + multi-host networking, we have to understand how the image works, how much resources to allocate (disk,memory,CPU), networking (the overlay network drivers - default, flannel, weave, etc) and fault tolerance (how is the container relocated, failed over and load balanced). Because all these will impact the overall operations, uptime and performance of the database. …

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It was suggested by Monty that the posts I've made about MariaDB are for publicity. This simply isn't true. I would have much preferred a different outcome in my interactions with MariaDB. I figured that they would end up giving me a hard time, and I'd be stubborn and we'd both hate each other for as long as I could keep from leaving. A quick separation actually seems much better in such context. Regardless, I would have preferred to speak amicably to the MariaDB Corporation about switching the license back, or at least moving to the new license at the time of the notification of the community, ie, changing the license so that bug fixes for 1.3.4 were not mingled with new 2.0 features.

It could have been easily possible to have a 1.3.5 release that fixes the major bugs in 1.3 and then release a new set of features as 2.0. This would have been at least reasonable, but by …