You may not be aware that the mechanism used to fingerprint the SSL certificates that  keep your access to websites encrypted and secure is changing. The old method, known as SHA1 is being deprecated – meaning it will no longer be supported. As per January 2016 various vendors will no longer support creating certificates with SHA1, and browsers show warnings when they encounter an old SHA1 certificate. Per January 2017 browsers will reject old certificates.

The new signing method, known as SHA2, has been available for some time. Users have had a choice of signing methods up until now, but there are still many sites using old certificates out there. You may want to check the security on any SSL websites you own or run!

To ensure your users’ security and privacy, force https across your entire website, not just e-commerce or other sections. You may have noticed this move on major websites over the last …

Devart team is proud to introduce the new version of ODBC Drivers for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and SQL Azure with secure connection support:

In this article we will show you how to install GLPI with Apache, PHP and MySQL on a Debian 7 VPS. GLPI is an IT software management package developed in PHP. It offers many functionalities one of which is to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, monitors, software, printers…). GLPI has enhanced functions to make the daily life for the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system with mail-notification and methods to build a database with basic information about your network-topology. Below are the functions of this application: Inventory of computers, peripherals, network printers and associated components […]

WP-CLI is a tool to provide a command line interface to install and manage a WordPress site. This tutorial explains the installation of Wordpress on a LEMP (Linux + Nginx + MySQL + PHP) server with WP-CLI and shows how to install plugins and themes with WP-CLI on the command line.

In this blog post I will talk about how to deploy a cluster, the methods I tried and my solution to resolving the prerequisites problem.

I’m fairly new to the big data field. Learning about Hadoop, I kept hearing the term “clusters”, deploying a cluster, and installing some services on namenode, some on datanode and so on. I also heard about Cloudera manager which helps me to deploy services on my cluster, so I set up a VM and followed several tutorials including the Cloudera documentation to install cloudera manager. However, every time I reached the “cluster installation” step my installation failed. I later found out that there are several prerequisites for a Cloudera Manager Installation, which was the reason for the failure to install.

Deploy a Cluster

Though I discuss 3 other methods in detail, ultimately I recommend method …

What better way to learn the basics of MySQL Performance Troubleshooting, than by observing a MySQL expert troubleshoot a nasty MySQL 5.7 performance bug, that a team of DBAs were chasing for weeks before giving up and calling in an external consultant for help.

The bug was causing roughly 2 minute long lock-ups for all MySQL write queries at seemingly random 20-30 hour intervals and it took me (the external consultant) only 4 hours to uncover the issue (and a couple more to find and showcase a solution).

Once upon a time…

Wait. Before we start with the story, I would like to share a couple of basic principles I obey when troubleshooting. A lot of this applies to troubleshooting other types of systems too, but since you’re here for MySQL, let’s focus on that.

First of all, as you may already know from my earlier posts, I am a big fan of a …

In MySQL 5.7.8 we added support for version tokens. This is a new feature that enables you to prevent accessing incorrect or out-of-date data, and stray modifications executing on the wrong server.

For some backstory

When there are multiple MySQL instances running on a Linux machine, there is a reasonable chance that clients could connect to the wrong instance.…

New SSL alternatives SSL connections in previous versions of MariaDB Connector/C based on the OpenSSL library. The OpenSSL heartbleed bug, licensing problems and the lack of supporting different transport layers were the main reasons that we decided to offer SSL alternatives. In addition to OpenSSL the following SSL libraries are supported in Connector/C 3.0: GnuTLS […]

The post New in MariaDB Connector/C 3.0 – Part I: SSL appeared first on MariaDB.org.

In the previous EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON is Cool! series blog post, we discussed the  

group_by_subqueries

  member (which is child of

grouping_operation

). Let’s now focus on the 

grouping_operation

  and other details of 

GROUP BY

  processing.

grouping_operation

 simply shows the details of what happens when the 

GROUP BY

 clause is run:

mysql> explain format=json …

Awesome.. +1 +1.. This is super useful for me and helped me to connect o Amazon RDS..