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MySQL Connector/Java 8.0.9-rc is the first Release Candidate
of the 8.0 branch of MySQL Connector/J, providing an insight into
upcoming features. It is suitable for use with MySQL Server versions
5.5, 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0. It supports the Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC) 4.2 API.

This release includes the following new features and changes, also
described in more detail on

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/8.0/en/news-8-0-9.html

MySQL Connectors and other MySQL client tools and applications now
synchronize the first digit of their version number with the (highest)
MySQL server version they support.
This change makes it easy and intuitive to decide which client version
to use for which server version.

As always, we recommend that you check the “CHANGES” file in the download
archive to be aware of …

Introduction –

          Maxscale is an excellent Proxy from Mariadb Corporation, which providing the High Availability, Realtime RW split with replication Glaera cluster Amazon RDS Amazon Aurora, binlog streaming and many more advanced features, here in this blog we will discuss one such feature, 

In this blog post, i am going to share my recent activity with Maxscale. We had to help one of our client to archive only the DML ( CREATE & INSERT ) data into archive server from specific table.

Problem Statement –

Our client is having only one standalone ( Master ) setup and a Archive server , they need to archive one …

We had a great webinar on Wednesday looking at how we can use Tungsten Replicator for moving data into Elasticsearch, whether that’s for analytics, searching, or reporting.

You can ahead and watch the video recording of that session here

We had one question on that session, which I wanted to answer in full:

Can UPDATE and DELETE be converted to INSERT?

One of the interesting issues with replicating databases between databases is that we don’t always want the information in the same format when it goes over another side. Typically when replicating within a homogeneous environment the reason we are using replication is that we want an identical copy over on the other side of the process. In heterogeneous, especially when we move the data out to an analytics environment like Elasticsearch, we might not. That covers a whole range of …

Recently, I was working with one of our customer and this is what their requirement as they want to automate this process for converting galera node to async slave and make async slave to galera node without shutting down any server. ———- Here are the steps for how to do that. I assumes that you already have working 3 nodes galera cluster if not, then for the testing purpose you can create it from my previous post. setup-three-nodes-mariadb-galera-cluster-on-single-server-with-mysql-sandbox ———- Btw, there is no matter how many nodes you have. Now, create one test1 table and add 3 records in galera cluster.

MariaDB [nil]> select * from test1;
+------+-----------+
| id   | name      |
+------+-----------+
|    1 | nilnandan |
|    2 | joshi     |
|    3 | niljoshi  |
+------+-----------+ …

In this blog post, we’ll look at the performance hit from the Spectre bug fix on Ubuntu.

Recently we measured the performance penalty from the Meltdown fix on Ubuntu servers. It turned out to be negligible.

Today, Ubuntu made a Spectre bug fix on Ubuntu available, shipped in kernel 4.4.0-112. As with the Meltdown fix, we measured the effect of this update. Unfortunately, we observed a major performance penalty on MySQL workloads with this new kernel.

Our benchmark used the following:

System:

• CPU:
  • 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz (Codename Haswell)
  • /proc/cpuinfo has 48 …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0. In this release, Percona Monitoring and Management Grafana metrics are available in the Advanced Data Exploration dashboard. We’ve improved the integration with MyRocks, and its data is now collected from SHOW GLOBAL STATUS.

The MongoDB Exporter now features two new metrics: mongodb_up to inform if the MongoDB Server is running and mongodb_scrape_errors_total reporting the total number of errors when scaping MongoDB.

In this release, we’ve greatly improved the performance of the mongodb:metrics monitoring service.

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0 also …

AWS recently announced the release of MariaDB 10.2 for RDS. One of customer needs this release for GIS indexing .The recent encounter on a Replication issue with RDS MariaDB 10.2 is briefed here .

Problem Statement:

After the upgrade of replicas to MariaDB 10.2 on RDS, Once replication is stopped manually through “call mysql.rds_stop_replication;” or replication failed due to some error. Replication cannot be started back using “call mysql.rds_start_replication;” and there is no straightforward way or documented process to start the replication back. Also, most of the replication related RDS commands like skip errors etc will not work. This is due to the implementation of replication handling in RDS.

Summary:

On Jan 5, 2018, RDS announced support for MariaDB 10.2.  …

As in every quarter of the year Oracle has released yesterday its recommendation for the MySQL security updates. This is called, in Oracle terminology, Critical Patch Update (CPU) Advisory.

This CPU is published for all Oracle products. But FromDual is only interested in MySQL related topics. So let us concentrate on those.

This time 25 fixes with a maximum score of 8.1 (out of 10.0) were published.

6 of theses 25 vulnerabilities are exploitable remotely over the network without authentication (no user credentials required)!

The following MySQL products are affected:

…

As in every quarter of the year Oracle has released yesterday its recommendation for the MySQL security updates. This is called, in Oracle terminology, Critical Patch Update (CPU) Advisory.

This CPU is published for all Oracle products. But FromDual is only interested in MySQL related topics. So let us concentrate on those.

This time 25 fixes with a maximum score of 8.1 (out of 10.0) were published.

6 of theses 25 vulnerabilities are exploitable remotely over the network without authentication (no user credentials required)!

The following MySQL products are affected:

…

In this post, we’ll look at updating and deleting rows with ClickHouse. It’s the second of two parts.

In the first part of this post, we described the high-level overview of implementing incremental refresh on a ClickHouse table as an alternative support for UPDATE/DELETE. In this part, we will show you the actual steps and sample code.

Prepare Changelog Table

First, we create the changelog table below. This can be stored on any other MySQL instance separate from the source of our analytics table. When we run the change capture script, it will record the data on this table that we can consume later with the incremental refresh script:

CREATE TABLE `clickhouse_changelog` (
  `db` varchar(255) NOT NULL …