The latest from the MySQL community

Welcome to this week’s Planets9s, covering all the latest resources and technologies we create around automation and management of open source database infrastructures.

In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Troubleshooting configuration issues webinar.

First, I want to thank you for attending the June, 9 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that I wasn’t able to answer during the webinar, with responses:

Q: What are the predefined roles installed per default?

A: MySQL does not support roles by default. But, if you need roles you can either use …

On behalf of the Percona Live Conference Committee, I am excited to announce the sneak peek schedule for the Percona Live Europe Amsterdam 2016 talks!

Percona Live Europe will feature a variety of formal tracks and sessions related to MySQL, MongoDB and ODBMS from members of the open source community. With many slots to fill, there will be no shortage of great content this year. Though we won’t finalize the entire conference schedule until mid-July, this preview list of talks is sure to whet your appetite! So without further ado, here is the SNEAK PEEK SCHEDULE!

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To operate MongoDB efficiently, you need to have insight into database performance. And with that in mind, we’ll dive into monitoring in this second webinar in the ‘Become a MongoDB DBA’ series.

MongoDB offers many metrics through various status overviews and commands, but which ones really matter to you? How do you trend and alert on them? What is the meaning behind the metrics?

We’ll discuss the most important ones and describe them in ordinary plain MySQL DBA language. And we’ll have a look at the open source tools available for MongoDB monitoring and trending.

Finally, we’ll show you how to leverage ClusterControl’s MongoDB metrics, dashboards, custom alerting and other features to track and optimize the performance of your system.

Date, Time & Registration Europe/MEA/APAC

Tuesday, July 12th at 09:00 BST / 10:00 CEST (Germany, France, Sweden)
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Introduction

XA stands for “eXtended Architecture”, and is a standard created by The Open Group for distributed transaction processing. While MySQL 5.0 was the first version to support XA, MySQL 5.7 has removed major limitations,  fixed a number of bugs, and increased overall test-case coverage.…

In this post, we’ll discuss Docker automatic MySQL slave propagation for help with scaling.

In my previous posts on the Docker environment, I covered Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster can automatically scale by conveniently adding new nodes using the highly automated State Snapshot Transfer. State Snapshot Transfer allows a new node to copy data from an existing node (I still want to see how this is possible with MySQL Group Replication).

This is not the case with regular MySQL Replication. With MySQL Replication, the slave setup still requires manual steps (well, unless you’ve already scripted it for your environment). At least these are “simple” steps (ha!). Percona XtraBackup can setup replication with less work (see this link for details:  …

Today we launch our live CrowdChat on everything #MySQLHA!

This CrowdChat is brought to you by Severalnines and is hosted by a community of subject matter experts. CrowdChat is a community platform that works across Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to allow users to discuss a topic using a specific #hashtag. This crowdchat focuses on the hashtag #MySQLHA. So if you’re a DBA, architect, CTO, or a database novice register to join and become part of the conversation!

Join this online community to interact with experts on Galera clusters. Get your questions answered and join the conversation around everything #MySQLHA.

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This post is a continuance of my Docker series, and examines Running Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes with Linux Network namespaces on the same host.

In this blog I want to look into a lower-level building block: Linux Network Namespace.

The same as with cgroups, Docker uses Linux Network Namespace for resource isolation. I was looking into cgroup a year ago, and now I want to understand more about Network Namespace.

The goal is to both understand a bit more about Docker internals, and to see how we can provide network isolation for different processes within the same host. You might need to isolate process when running several MySQL or MongoDB instances on the same …

Please join Percona, Technical Account Manager, Michael Patrick on Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 10 AM PDT (UTC-7) as he presents “Choosing a MySQL High Availability Solution Today.”

High availability (HA) is one of the solutions to improve performance, avoid data outages, and recover quickly from disasters. An HA environment helps guarantee that your database doesn’t have a single point of failure, accommodates rapid growth and exponentially increasing database size, and enables the applications that power your business.

Michael will discuss various topologies for achieving High Availability with MySQL.

Topics include:

• Percona XtraDB Cluster
• DRBD
• MHA
• MySQL Orchestrator

Each solution has advantages and …

Working with a client last week I noted in my analysis, “The mysql server was restarted on Thursday and so the [updated] my.cnf settings seems current”. This occurred between starting my analysis on Wednesday and delivering my findings on Friday.

# more /var/lib/mysql/ip-104-238-102-213.secureserver.net.err
160609 17:04:43 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown

The client however stated they did not restart MySQL and would not do that at 5pm which is still a high usage time of the production system. This is unfortunately not an uncommon finding, that a production system had an outage and that the client did not know about it and did not instigate this.

There are several common causes and the “DevOps” mindset for current production systems has made this worse.

• You have managed hosting and they perform software updates with/without your knowledge. I have for example worked with several Rackspace …