I’m pleased to announce that MySQL Connector/J 5.1.38 Maintenance Release is now generally available.

MySQL Connector/J can be downloaded from the official distribution channels MySQL Downloads and The Central repository. The commercially licensed version is available for download at My Oracle Support.

As always, we recommend that you check the CHANGES file in the download archive and/or the release notes to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect your application.

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.38, although released shortly after its predecessor, …

This and the next few posts will be on the basics of MySQL for my MySQL 101 presentation at the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Groups Training Days.Training Days 2016 : Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group

MySQL is available from multiple sources.  It might be a part of your Linux distributions available software or already built into your virtual image if you are using something like Laravel's Homestead.  MySQL runs on most of the popular operating systems.  And it is highly recommended to start off at MySQL :: MySQL Downloads to get the latest and greatest. Don't be intimidated by the man options available to you. Most people start with the MySQL Community Edition server MySQL :: …

Requires ClusterControl 1.2.11 or later. Applies to MySQL based instances/clusters.

On some occasions, you might want to run multiple instances of MySQL on a single machine. You might want to give different users access to their own mysqld servers that they manage themselves, or you might want to test a new MySQL release while keeping an existing production setup undisturbed.

It is possible to use a different MySQL server binary per instance, or use the same binary for multiple instances (or a combination of the two approaches). For example, you might run a server from MySQL 5.1 and one from MySQL 5.5, to see how the different versions handle a certain workload. Or you might run multiple instances of the latest MySQL version, each managing a different set of databases.

Whether or not you use distinct server binaries, each instance that you run must …

The MySQL server is a large multi-threaded program primarily written in the C++ programming language.  Unfortunately,  data races and deadlocks in concurrent C++ programs are common.  Fortunately, the Thread Sanitizer can be used to find data races and deadlocks.  MySQL 5.7 does not support the Thread Sanitizer, but is is easy to add to the MySQL configuration using a simple build procedure.  When MySQL 5.7 is built with the Thread Sanitizer and database …

This post explains on the usage of mysql_repair_threads for repairing myisam table & the processlist status Repair with N threads

The post corrupted / crashed MyISAM + mysql_repair_threads = stuck “Repair with N threads” first appeared on Change Is Inevitable.

This post is the hardest for me to write as I generally pay little attention to disks. When they prove too slow, I replace them with faster ones. So now I am writing this on laptop with two SSDs. That said, Disk subsystem could be a major system performance bottleneck and thus there are numerous counters covering this area (Get-CimClass *disk* | Select CimClassName). I would also like to turn your attention to old yet excellent article Top Six FAQs on Windows 2000 Disk Performance if you're interested in subject.

Disk counters:Note: Microsoft recommends that "when attempting to analyse disk performance bottlenecks, you should always use physical disk counters. However, if you use software RAID, you should use logical disk counters. As for Logical Disk and Physical Disk Counters, the same values are available in each of these …

Hello dear readers and attendees,

This is the post that I will be/ will have been referencing during my presentation to the Seattle Central Community College’s Byte club on Thursday, December 10th at 1500-1630.

I will begin with a bit of an autobio and find out what kind of students we have in attendance. Please feel free to comment if you’d like to keep in touch before or after the presentation. I will discuss some of the bits and pieces of some industry standard platforms which I’ve developed, deployed, maintained, managed, co-operated, administered and replaced. We can discuss some of the patterns that work well in the industry, and some that are a bit harder to tame.

Once we have touched most of the areas of specialization represented at the meeting, I will dive in to an AngularJS demo I am developing in github here:

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Swift is now opensource, and it’s interesting to see Craig Federighi talk about it. This is Apple doing right, considering FaceTime is long overdue to being an open standard. People are nitpicking on Apple’s Open Source tagline, but really, this is akin to nitpicking on Mark Zuckerberg donating 99% of his Facebook stock to his new limited liability corporation charity (key: don’t look a gift horse in the mouth).

Apple has chosen to put …

We've talked a lot about the high-resolution data we capture, but if you haven't experienced it yourself, it might be a little abstract. Here, look at the difference between 1-second and 1-minute data.

Are your monitoring systems glossing over important detail with low-frequency data?

All of our metrics are in 1-second granularity. That's 60x more data points per minute than most monitoring tools. It's 120x more data points per second than MongoDB Monitoring Service's premium paid tier. It's 500x more data points per minute than MySQL Enterprise Monitor at its default settings.

It's enough detail to see 1-second server stalls you will never find otherwise. This gives you the ability to proactively find and stop problems that will become much more serious over time.

And this data is not only realtime but …

We use an in-house deployment service system we built called Teletraan to push new code to Pinners around the world. Our goal for Teletraan is to be as dependable and straightforward as possible to remove any deploy-related issues for engineers. In order to achieve this, we’ve put great effort into keeping our deploy process and system secure.

Before, Teletraan didn’t have native authentication and authorization checks when performing operations, so our products and internal tools were at risk for unintended deploy-related changes across teams. As we continue to quickly grow as an organization, it’s important to have a robust permissions control mechanism to prevent possible poor experiences for Pinners and for our productivity as engineers. 

Role-based permissions and access control lists

At Pinterest, …