There are many organizations where front/web-facing applications use MySQL and back end processing uses PostgreSQL®. Any system integration between these applications generally involves the replication—or duplication—of data from system to system. We recently blogged about pg_chameleon which can be used replicate data from MySQL® to PostgreSQL. mysql_fdw can play a key role in eliminating the problem of replicating/duplicating data. In order to eliminate maintaining the same data physically in both postgres and MySQL, we can use mysql_fdw. This allows PostgreSQL to access MySQL tables and to use them as if they are local tables in PostgreSQL. mysql_fdw can be used, too, with …

We received feedback about how a member should act when leaving the group. And the majority of users wanted that when a node drops out of the group, it should kill all connections and shutdown. I totally agree with that behavior and it’s now the default in MySQL 8.0.12.

This new feature is explained in WL#11568.

Before this change, the server goes into super read only mode when dropping out of the group and allows users connected to this server or new connections (if you don’t use the router) to read old data.

Let’s check this out in the following video:

So now in MySQL 8.0.12, there is a mnew option called …

This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle, and MySQL.

Cloud:

Google Cloud is announcing an easy way to back up and replay your streaming pipeline events directly from the Cloud Console via a new collection of simple import/export templates. If you are a developer interested in data stream processing, you’ll likely find this feature very handy.

Google network engineering uses a diverse set of vendor equipment to route user traffic from an internet service provider to one of our serving front ends inside a GCP data center.

Over the last two decades, the IT profession has developed new …

As a spin-off from the previous post, https://mysqlmed.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/get-the-auditors-in/, I thought that it would be good to see how well the Audit plugin upgrades to MySQL 8. The big change in auditing is that the tables change from MyISAM to InnoDB, so keep your eyes open.

I’m using the previously used instance in version 5.7.18.

Preparation

Before we do anything, let’s make sure auditing will be in place when we restart the instance with 8.0.12:

Uncomment the plugin-load & audit-log params we had originally commented out. After all, this is something we should have done in the last post (apologies!):

vi my_audit.cnf:
  ..
  [mysqld]
  plugin-load =audit_log.so
  audit-log =FORCE_PLUS_PERMANENT
  ..

Restart the 5.7 instance so we upgrade from a rebooted / ‘as real as can be …

Here I have been looking into using the MySQL Enterprise Edition Audit Log plugin for 5.7. We have many options to audit (filters, encryption, compression, Workbench, rotation & purging, viewing the log, etc.) and it’s quite clear cut on what we’re auditing and not when active.

If you’re looking to go deep into the Audit Plugin, as part of the Enterprise Edition, you’ll want to look at the following Support note:

Master Note for MySQL Enterprise Audit Log Plugin (Doc ID 2299419.1)

And if you’re looking for other Audit Plugin examples, I’d recommend Tony Darnell’s blog post:

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In this post I’ll give to you the steps to compile Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.22 in Raspberry Pi 3. Why? Well because in general this little computer is cheap, has low power consumption, and is great to use as a test machine for developers.

By default Raspbian OS includes very few versions of MySQL to install

$ apt-cache search mysql | grep server
...
mariadb-server-10.0 - MariaDB database server binaries
mariadb-server-10.1 - MariaDB database server binaries
mariadb-server-core-10.0 - MariaDB database core server files
mariadb-server-core-10.1 - MariaDB database core server files
mysql-server - MySQL database server binaries and system database setup [transitional] (5.5)
...

If you want to install MySQL or MariaDB on an ARM architecture using official pre-built binaries, you are limited to those distributions and versions.

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In MySQL NDB Cluster, the management node (ndb_mgmd) is a lightweight process that among other things handles the configuration of the cluster. Since it is lightweight. It can be tempting to install it with one of the other nodes. However, if you want a high-availability setup, you should never install it on the same host as a data node (ndbd or ndbmtd). If you do that, it can cause a total cluster outage where the cluster could otherwise have survived.

The first sign of trouble occurs when you start the management nodes. The following warning is printed to standard output:

2018-08-22 18:04:14 [MgmtSrvr] WARNING  -- at line 46: Cluster configuration warning: …

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Apress have been kind enough to invite me to write a blog in connection with my recently released book MySQL Connector/Python Revealed. I chose to write an introduction of MySQL Connector/Python including three examples illustrating the APIs and the difference between querying SQL tables and a JSON document store.

You can read the whole post at Apress’ blog.

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ProxySQL is the most preferred and is widely used for load-balancing MySQL workload, thanks to Rene Cannon & Team for the great tool, and kudos on the recent release of ProxySQL 1.4.10, with a lot of bug fixes. ProxySQL is simple in design, lightweight, highly efficient and feature rich, We have been working with ProxySQL in production for our client quite a sometime, we have also shared some of our encounters/experience and use cases in the below blogs.

• ProxySQL for replication – Read Write split
• ProxySQL for handling bad queries
• …

Dear MySQL Users,

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.47, a maintenance release of the production 5.1
branch has been released. Connector/J is the Type-IV pure-Java JDBC
driver for MySQL.

MySQL Connector/J is available in source and binary form from the
Connector/J download pages at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html
and mirror sites as well as Maven-2 repositories.

MySQL Connector/J (Commercial) is already available for download on
the My Oracle Support (MOS) website. This release will shortly be
available on eDelivery (OSDC).

As always, we recommend that you check the “CHANGES” file in the
download archive to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect
your application.

MySQL Connector/J 5.1.47 includes the following general bug fixes and …