In this blog, I will discuss how parallel crash recovery in MySQL benefits several processes.

I recently filed an Oracle feature request to make crash recovery faster by running in multiple threads.

This might not seem very important, because MySQL does not crash that often. When it does crash, however, crash recovery can take 45 mins – as I showed in this post:

What is a big innodb_log_file_size?

Even in that case, it still might not be a big issue as you often failover to a slave.

However, crash recovery plays important part in the following processes:

• Backups with Percona XtraBackup (and …

Building a docker image for MySQL is essential if you’d like to customize MySQL to suit your needs. The image can then be used to quickly start running MySQL containers, which can be operated individually. In our previous post, we covered the basics of running MySQL as container. For that purpose, we used the MySQL image from the official Docker repository. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to build your own MySQL image for Docker.

What is a container image?

A container requires an image to run. A container image is like a virtual machine template. It has all the required stuff to run the container. That includes operating system, software packages, drivers, configuration files and helper scripts packed in one bundle.

When running MySQL on a physical host, here is what you would normally do:

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It's usually a good practice to have two columns called date_created and date_updated in every table. One can always use it in application and it helps in debugging too as to when a record was created and last updated in various circumstances and contexts.




This responsibility can be given to MySQL to automatically assign current time values to these columns.

In MySQL 5.6 onwards, this can be done by setting the data type of the columns to be either date time or timestamp and creating date_created column with NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP  schema and date_updated column with NOT NULL DEFAULT …

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Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 2.2.18, released on June 24, 2016.

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex for DBAs to perform manually. Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source.

This release is the current stable release in the 2.2 series. It includes new features and bug fixes as well as improved MySQL 5.7 compatibility. Full details are below. Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories.

New …

In this blog series, I will share my experiences as I migrate commercial databases (i.e., Microsoft SQL or Oracle) to open source (MySQL). More specifically, we will look at how you can migrate from MS SQL Server to MySQL.

For this first blog post I’ve chosen Jira database as an example, and used three different tools to migrate Jira database in Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL:

1. MySQL Workbench (opensource)
2. Amazon DMS (cloud tool)
3. Ispirer MnMTK 2015 (commercial tool)

When I started my research, I was under the impression that Jira database would be easy to migrate (no stored procedures, no triggers, etc.). It turned out that there were some problems that I was able to fix.

One of the reasons I chose Jira as opposed to some standard MS SQL database (such as AdventureWorks2014) is that it is a non-standard …

Ahoi,There will be the IT-Tage 2016 conference. Where I'm going to give two talks. One will be about Docker being more then a technical revolution. The other one is about Best Practices for Docker+MySQL/MariaDB \o/
As always: fun first! Erkan

Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.

In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Troubleshooting configuration issues webinar.

First, I want to thank you for attending the June, 9 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that I wasn’t able to answer during the webinar, with responses:

Q: What are the predefined roles installed per default?

A: MySQL does not support roles by default. But, if you need roles you can either use …