Many thanks to everyone who took the time yesterday to participate in our last webinar of 2015! Here are the recording of the session as well as the slides that were used by our colleague Art van Scheppingen, Senior Support Engineer, on the topic of Polyglot Persistence for the MongoDB, MySQL & PostgreSQL DBA.

Webinar Replay:

Webinar Slides:

Agenda

During this webinar, Art discussed the four major operational challenges for MySQL, MongoDB & PostgreSQL:

• Deployment
• Management
• Monitoring
• Scaling
• And how to deal with them

And demonstrated, using ClusterControl, how Polyglot Persistence for datastores can be managed from one central control centre. To find out more, feel free to contact us.

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EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON

The regular

EXPLAIN

 command already provides some information about subquery optimization. For example, you can find out if the subquery is dependent or not, and (since version 5.6) if it was materialized:

mysql> explain select dept_name from departments where dept_no in (select dept_no from dept_manager where to_date is not null)G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: SIMPLE
        table: departments
   partitions: NULL
         type: index
possible_keys: PRIMARY
          key: dept_name
      key_len: 42
          ref: NULL
         rows: 9
     filtered: 100.00
        Extra: Using where; Using index
*************************** 2. row ***************************
           id: 1
  select_type: SIMPLE
        table: …

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High Availability

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Performance Schema

In many types of database workloads, using a multi-threaded slave from 5.6+ helps improve replication performance. I’ve had a number of users enable this feature, but have not seen anyone ask how each thread is performing. Here’s a quick way with Performance_Schema to measure the amount of multi-threaded slave activity on each thread (after you have already configured MTS on your slave of course ).

First, we need to enable the 

statements

 instruments:

slave1> UPDATE setup_consumers SET ENABLED = 'YES' WHERE NAME LIKE 'events_statements_%';
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 3  Changed: 2  Warnings: 0

Next, let’s find the

THREAD_ID

 for our slave workers:

slave1> SELECT THREAD_ID, …