Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in this week’s webinar on 'How to Monitor Galera Cluster'. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again & browse through the slides, they are now available online.

Our speaker this time was Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer, Severalnines.

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Deep Dive Into How To Monitor MySQL or MariaDB Galera Cluster / Percona XtraDB Cluster - Replay from Severalnines AB

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The MySQL developer tools team is pleased to announce 6.3.3 as our GA release for the MySQL Workbench 6.3

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For detailed information about the new features, see What’s
New in MySQL Workbench 6.3
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-what-is-new-63.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.3 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 20 and Fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu
14.10 …

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.3 as our GA release for
MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For detailed information about the new features, see What’s
New in MySQL Workbench 6.3
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-what-is-new-63.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.3 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 20 and Fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu
14.10 …

How MySQL will act if there is no space left on hard disk?
To answer this question, let’s test it:

Our first test is with MySQL 5.6.24-debug with disabled binary log:
Trying to import huge dump, after while it says table is full:

Query OK, 12725 rows affected (2.46 sec)
Records: 12725  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

Query OK, 12724 rows affected (2.40 sec)
Records: 12724  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

Query OK, 12726 rows affected (2.53 sec)
Records: 12726  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table 'sales' is full
ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table 'sales' is full
ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table 'sales' is full

In error log you will see something like:

[root@localhost mysql]# tail -f /opt/mysql/datadir/error.err
Version: '5.6.24-debug'  socket: '/opt/mysql/datadir/mysqld-new.sock'  port: 3307  Shahriyar Rzayev's MySQL
2015-04-24 03:56:09 7fabeffff700 InnoDB: Error: Write to file ./sales2/sales.ibd failed at …

Last week at Percona Live Facebook has presented for the first time Docstore which is a native JSON implementation in MySQL. Oracle has also presented their MySQL 5.7 lab release that includes the implementation of a native JSON type. This is an important move as MySQL was behind other other RDMS regarding JSON (PostgreSQL already [...]

We can use iopp tool to monitor process io performance

download from github : https://github.com/markwkm/iopp

pid: The process id.
rchar: The number of bytes which this task has caused to be read from storage.
wchar: The number of bytes which this task has caused, or shall cause to be written to disk.
syscr: Count of the number of read I/O operations.
syscw: Count of the number of write I/O operations.
rbytes rkb rmb reads: Count of the number of bytes which this process really did cause to be fetched from the storage layer.
wbytes wkb wmb writes: Count of the number of bytes which this process really did cause to be sent to the storage layer.
cwbytes cwkb cwmb cwrites: The number of bytes which this process caused to not happen, by truncating pagecache.
command: Filename of the executable.

There is one small bug , you’ll get different output from -i -k than you will from -i or …

Planning out my year, I decided to take the Oracle OCP and MySQL OCP exams. I checked for review books and was pleasantly surprised to find the soon to be released OCP MySQL Database Administrator Exam Guide (Exam 1Z0-883). However, I noticed that the book was actually prepared for the obsolete and discountinued Exams 1Z0-870, 1Z0-873, and 1Z0-874. As it turns out, Steve O’Hearn has informed me that there isn’t a book and that the posting in Amazon.com is in error.

Monitoring tools offer two core types of functionality: alerts based on aliveness checks and comparing metrics to thresholds, and displaying time-series charts of status counters. Nagios + Graphite are the prototypical time-series tools that do these things.

But these tools don’t answer the crucial questions about what we should monitor. What kinds of aliveness/health checks should we build into Nagios? Which metrics should we monitor with thresholds to raise alarms, and what should the thresholds be? What graphs should we build of status counters, which graphs should we examine and what do they mean?

We need guiding principles to help answer these questions. This webinar briefly introduces the principles that motivate and inform what we do at VividCortex, then explains which types of health checks and charts are valuable and what conclusions should be drawn from them. The webinar is focused mostly on MySQL database monitoring, …

Thu, 2015-04-23 20:17geoff_montee_g

User accounts in MariaDB have traditionally been completely separate from operating system accounts. However, MariaDB has included a PAM authentication plugin since version 5.2.10. With this plugin, DBAs can configure MariaDB user accounts to authenticate via PAM, allowing users to use their Linux username and password to log into the MariaDB server.

However, even when using the PAM authentication plugin, the user account still needs to exist in MariaDB, and the account needs to have privileges. Creating these MariaDB accounts and making sure the privileges are correct can be a lot of work. To decrease the amount of work involved, some users would like to be able to map a Linux user to a different MariaDB user. For example, let's say that "alice" and "bob" are both DBAs. It would be nice if each of them …

Last time I was checked, how can TokuDB be used as a drop in replacement of InnoDB. The first impressions were jolly good; way less disk space usage, and the TokuDB host can be a part of the current replication cluster.

So far so good.

Well, actually not everything is that nice, because there is a very big part of infrastructure is built on the top of xtrabackup.

So let’s see what can we do backing up TokuDB.

The first and most clean way should be the mysqldump utility, but sadly this is not really useful for us, the restore process could be take too many time, because a lot of indexes has to be rebuilt.

So we need to take binary backups. Sadly TokuDB currently offers only tokudbhotbackup for hot backup which is a part of the enterprise feature set. Sadly that seems not opensource (yet!), but I hope Percona will change that soon.

Until that the following things are sure: xtrabackup cannot …