I have now released version 1.2 of MyOraDump, my Oracle data extraction tool. This version has one new feature, which is transaction support for MySQL format exports which does speed up loading data a lot! Trust me, it really does! Also I have fixed a bug that did cause a crash at the end of the run, I have no idea why this didn't show up before, but there you go and now it is fixed.

MyOraDump 1.2 can be downloaded sourceforge, and as usual there is also a pdf only download if you want to read up on the tool before using it.

/Karlsson

In our previous post, we discussed the different ways to collect data about slow queries - MySQL offers slow log, general log and binary log. Using tcpdump, you can grab network traffic data - a good and low-impact method of collecting basic metrics for slow queries. So, now that you are sitting on top of a large pile of data, perhaps tens of gigabytes of logs, how do you get a whole picture of the workload? 

Mid to large size applications tend to have hundred of SQL statements distributed throughout a large code base, with potentially hundreds of queries running every second. That can generate a lot of data. How do we identify causes of bottlenecks slowing down our applications? Obviously, going through the information query by query would not be great - we’ll get drowned with all the entries. We need to find a way to …

Oracle MySQL – News, Monitoring, Diagnostic and Backup Event Oracle MySQL (Session in French) – Lausanne / 29.09.2015

You work on MySQL and your needs evolve? ORACLE and dbi services invite you to a workshop dedicated to the monitoring, the diagnostic and the backup of your MySQL databases. We look forward to meeting you there!

• Lausanne, 29.09.2015 · 09:30 – 13:30 (Hôtel Mövenpick, Avenue de Rhodanie 4, CH-1000 Lausanne)
• Our speakers :
  
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ConFoo is once more seeking passionate speakers for the upcoming conference.

The event is happening in Montreal, Canada, between February 24th and 26th, 2016. It is an exciting conference for web developers with speakers from all over the world. It unites many web programming languages under one roof, as well as other topics related to web development. The call for papers closes on September 20th.

ConFoo renews 50% of its speakers each year. If you’re new to this conference, you should definitely submit.

If you would just like to attend, there is a discount until October 13th.

The MariaDB team released a GA version of MariaDB Galera Cluster 10 in June 2014. MariaDB 10 is the equivalent of MySQL 5.6, and therefore, packed with lots of great features. 

In this blog post, we’ll look into how to perform an online upgrade to MariaDB Galera Cluster 10. At the time of writing, MariaDB 10.1 was still in beta so the instructions in this blog are applicable to MariaDB 10.0. If you are running the Codership build of Galera (Galera Cluster for MySQL), you might be interested in the online upgrade to MySQL 5.6 instead. 

Offline Upgrade

An offline upgrade requires downtime, but it is more straightforward. If you can afford a maintenance window, this is probably a safer way to reduce the risk of upgrade failures. The major steps consists of stopping the cluster, upgrading all …

In this post, we will describe the Primary Component, a central concept in how Galera ensures that there is no opportunity for database inconsistency or divergence between the nodes in case of a network split.

What is the Primary Component?

The Primary Component is that set of Galera nodes that can communicate with each other over the network and contains the majority of the nodes. In case of a network partition, it is those nodes that can safely commit a transaction. A cluster can only have one such set of nodes, as there can only be one majority. No other set of nodes will commit transactions, thus removing the possibility of two parts of the cluster committing different transactions and thus diverging and becoming inconsistent.

The Healthy Cluster

In a healthy cluster, all nodes nodes can communicate with each other, so they all belong to the Primary Component and can all receive updates. There are no …

I have three pieces of information to share about MySQL::Sandbox:

• Version 3.1.0 has migrated from Launchpad to GitHub
• This version is released under the Apache license. Both these changes are meant to improve and promote cooperation on the project.
• There is an important change related to usability. When using replication with MySQL::Sandbox and MySQL 5.6+, the server UUIDs become more readable (see below).

First, some words on the location changes. About two years ago, I started plans for a rewrite of MySQL::Sandbox. Then, I had some unexpected changes, which involved moving home to a different continent twice within twelve months. The project …

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CREATE FUNCTION SWAP_ENDIAN(inString text)
RETURNS TEXT
DETERMINISTIC
-- Expects a hex string: AbCdEf
-- Returns the string swapped for endianness: EfCdAb

BEGIN
  DECLARE position INT DEFAULT 1;
  DECLARE holder TEXT DEFAULT '';

  WHILE position 

So you can do things like:

SELECT
  FROM_UNIXTIME(
    CONV(
      SWAP_ENDIAN(
        SUBSTRING(
          HEX(
            FROM_BASE64(
              'Yk3XVQ8pAAAAZgAAAGoAAAAAAAQANS4xLjczLWxvZwAAAAAABBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'
              'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABiTddVEzgNAAgAEgAEBAQEEgAAUwAEGggAAAAICAgC'
            )
          ), 1, 8
        )
      ), 16, 10)
  ) AS event_timestamp;

It had been in the making for long time. Google announced that Google Code would be closing, and since then the Continuent team has been hard at work to handle the transition. You can guess it: this operation would have been quicker if it had been done by a small company like we were one year ago, but being part of a large corporation introduces some constraints that have affected our schedule.

However, our wish has always been, and still is, to keep Tungsten Replicator as an open source product, with full functionalities and with the full benefits that the open source development model offers.

Today, Tungsten Replicator is available on GitHub as …