Table modifications are a common task for database administrators. In this blog, I’ll explain how to alter tables online in a controlled manner that does not disrupt application users or cause application downtime.

One of the tools in Percona Toolkit is pt-online-schema-change, a utility that alters the structure of a table without interfering with the reads or writes. The tool creates an empty copy of the table to alter and modify as desired before copying the rows from the original table into the new one.

When the copying is finished, it removes the original table and replaces it with the new one. Any changes made to data in the original tables during the copy process will be reflected in the new table as the tool creates triggers on …

We recently released Read Replica for MySQL HeatWave Database Service. Read Replicas are read-only copies of the MySQL DB system in the same region. When you add Read Replicas, they are automatically distributed accross Availability Domains and/or Fault Domains. Each MySQL DB instance can have up to 18 read replicas. Read Replicas use MySQL Asynchronous […]

Oracle recently released Read Replica for MySQL Database Service (also known as MySQL HeatWave, with or without the use of HeatWave accelerator for OLTP and OLAP).

Read Replicas are read-only copies of the MySQL DB system in the same region. When you add Read Replicas, they are automatically distributed accross Availability Domains and/or Fault Domains.

Each MySQL DB instance can have up to 18 read replicas.

Read Replicas use MySQL Asynchronous Replication with parallel workers. And when you create the first Read Replica, a Read Replica Load Balancer is created, which distributes read traffic among the read replicas.

Not all shapes are compatible with Read Replicas, the …

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In the previous part, we created our application and our 2 functions. Now we need to create an API Gateway to be able to call these functions from outside OCI. Using a third party scheduler, our laptop, etc… Before creating the gateway, we need to create some policy to allow the API Gateway to call […]

In my previous post, I explained how to deal with Performance_Schema and Sys to identify the candidates for Query Optimization but also to understand the workload on the database. In this article, we will see how we can create an OCI Fn Application that will generate a slow query log from our MySQL Database Service […]

In this blog, I’m going to discuss how to easily skip the replication errors in GTID (Global Transaction Identifier)-based replication.

In the MySQL world, if replication is broken we all use the famous SET GLOBAL SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER=1; to skip the replication error. It always works if it’s a traditional binlogs events-based replication and is helpful to quickly resume the replication. But does this same method work for GTID-based replication? Let’s see.

In GTID-based replication, skipping a replication error in a broken replica is not as simple as binlogs-based replication. We have one old blog post — Repair MySQL 5.6 GTID replication by injecting empty transactions —where one of our colleagues showed us one way to skip and fix the replication.

Let’s get into action and …

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.30-22 introduces a new authentication plugin, named authentication_fido. With this new plugin, it is possible to perform multi-factor authentication using hardware keys, or single-factor passwordless authentication with the same keys. This new plugin is in technical preview.

The plugin works exactly the same as the MySQL Enterprise FIDO authentication plugin, which is documented in detail in the official MySQL documentation and in the Percona Server for MySQL documentation

To try …

If like me you are an old experienced MySQL DBA, to analyze your MySQL workload, you certainly have used the slow query log with long_query_time set to 0. The slow query log is a file that contains all the queries whose execution time is greater than the value of long_query_time. This file can be huge […]

Today’s MySQL Community Advent Calendar post is about JSON datatype. Let’s start with some info about how MySQL Document Store handles JSON documents. Document Store and CRUD We know that MySQL 8.0 Document Store handles JSON documents with CRUD operations. We can add, delete and modify those documents very easily: JS > db.mycollection.find() { "_id": […]