This Log Buffer Edition dives deep into the ocean of blogosphere and surfaces with some cool blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• Lets Talk DB Perth
• The Fundamental Challenge of Computer System Performance
• Index Advanced Compression: Multi-Column Index
• Middleware Diagnostics Advisor (MDA) Setup
• Most people are now aware that in 12c, a …

Intro

The purpose of this project was to measure the potential overhead of VividCortex Agent, which is used by VividCortex.com database monitoring system. This benchmark is part of a consulting engagement with VividCortex and paid by the customer.

The assumption is that VividCortex agent uses CPU processing time, and we should see an impact on user queries when the workload is CPU-intensive (how much is to be measured). The impact on IO-bound should be small or insignificant.

Workload Description
For this, we use LinkBenchX benchmark in a combination of different options.

Workloads

There are 3 different workloads we want to look into:

• CPU bound. …

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Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world, is emerging as an economic powerhouse in Asia Pacific. With 60% of a population of 250 million being under 30 years of age, growing internet penetration and greater spending power by the middle-class have catalyzed the eCommerce sector. The vast majority of Indonesians don’t own credit cards, so local eCommerce players have developed innovative payment solutions.

Veritrans was established in October 2012, and in under 3 years, has grown into one of the largest payment gateways in the country. The company processes payments (credit/debit card, internet and mobile banking) for over 1000 merchants, including businesses such as Garuda Indonesia (the national airline of Indonesia), Groupon Indonesia (Disdus) and Rakuten Indonesia. The company has a staff of 85 employees. Competitors include the likes of Doku, iPayMu, Pay88 and a dozen others. Doku alone processed …

In two earlier posts, I gave some examples on how to use Perl to send tweets stored in a MySQL database to Twitter, and then how to automatically reply to your retweets with a “thanks”. In this post, I will show you how to automatically download your direct messages from Twitter, store the messages in a MySQL database, and then delete them.

I don’t like the way Twitter makes me read my direct messages. Granted, the majority of them are not real messages. The message is usually thanking me for following the sender, and then there is a personal website link or a link to a product they are selling. But if I want to delete a direct message, I have to …

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Or should I say to: "not to get soaked"...

The Amsterdam weather forecasts for next week is out  and it does not look so good during Percona Live MySQL and NoSQL Conference:

Of course, this is not a problem during talks, and I take this opportunity to invite you to my talks:

Riding the Binlog: an in Deep Dissection of the Replication Stream(22 September 11:20AM - 12:10PM @ Matterhorn 3)

Recently Aphyr (Kyle Kingsbury) published https://aphyr.com/posts/327-call-me-maybe-mariadb-galera-cluster

The article is technically valid, I am not going to dispute a conclusion Aphyr made, but it is also quite technically involved, so users who just jump to conclusion may get the wrong impression and we’re left with more questions than ever.

So, let me state what is the real conclusion of this article:
“Galera cluster does not support SNAPSHOT ISOLATION LEVEL, in contract to what was stated in the documentation”.
Following that conclusion is using Galera cluster may result in “corrupted” data.

I do not quite like the usage of the word “corrupted” here. For me, the more correct word be to use is “inconsistent”.

So with this clarification, the …

Recently we encountered an issue with aurora, where our cpu started spiking every X minutes. (X < 30)

we had like 20-30 connections, out of which majority were inserts and a few selects.

every time the spike occurred our inserts would start waiting and waiting….

here is innotop output

we checked our code. nothing major had changed.

The mysql error log had this mysterious message which i could not trace in the mysql/percona/maria source.

“Innodb: Retracted crabbing in btr_cur_search_to_nth_level 33001 times since restart”

if you get to know the meaning of this – please do let me know – would love to understand this.

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Getting new t-shirts printed as give-aways for the much anticipated Percona Live Europe Conference in Amsterdam next week is not unlike creating and spinning up lots of MySQL instances. Some might prefer to do so themselves, manually, while others will look at automating most of the required steps (as it takes quite a bit of time to produce 100s of t-shirts by hand …). 

Given the database automation & management folks that we are at Severalnines, we went for automation ;-)

First you need to design the schema: 

Then build your first instance: 

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