It's our pleasure to mention 2 shows we are supporting & attending this week. They are: PHPTek19, May 21-23, 2019, Atlanta, US. MySQL Community team is again a proud sponsor of this great event. 

The second show is OpenSUSE, May 24-26, 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany where MySQL is a Silver sponsor with a MySQL booth in the expo area. We will be happy to hear feedback, answer your questions and have discussion with you @OpenSUSE.

My previous post from this series was published more than 1.5 years ago. I had never planned to stop writing about my everyday work on a regular basis, but sometimes it's not easy to pick up something really interesting for wider MySQL audience and when in doubts I always prefer to write about MySQL bugs...

In any case, any long way starts from the first step, so I decided to write one post in this series per week and try to summarize in it whatever findings, questions, discussions, bugs and links I've collected over the week. My work experience differs week after week, so some of these posts may be boring or less useful, but I still want to try to create them on a regular basis.

I was working on (upcoming) blog post (inspired by one customer issue) on …

Introduction

            We are well aware that ProxySQL is one of the leading SQL aware proxy for MySQL. In this blog I am going to explain the backup & restore strategies of the ProxySQL . I think, still there is not well structured blog about this topic .

If you are looking for other articles on our ProxySQL Series :

• MySQL replication Read-Write Split up
• Replication Switchover using Proxysql And MHA
• …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.44-85.0 on May 17, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository.

Based on MySQL 5.6.44, and including all the bug fixes in it, …

So, typically, a Percona Live (or MySQL User) Conference blog would start off with some mention of the fact that it’s great to be meeting up again in Santa Clara, California, the birthplace of the MySQL User Conference, and a continuous fixture on the yearly MySQL community agenda.

But no, not this time!

On this occasion, the Percona Live Conference blog starts off by pointing out that for the first time since its inception (as far as I can recollect), the MySQL User Conference, i.e. Percona Live Conference (in North America) doesn’t take place in Santa Clara, but rather in Austin, Texas.

Never having been to Texas before myself, I’m looking forward to that innovation, discovering the new surroundings and seeing whether that changes anything or not to the familiar “feel” of a Percona Live / MySQL User Conference.

By the way, there’s still time to …

To operate more easily a MySQL Group Replication (InnoDB Cluster), the Group Replication plugins provides some UDFs.

If you have read the recent article from Tiago Vale about the Group Replication Communication Protocol, you may have heard about two new UDFs allowing to get or set  the communication protocol.

So what are all the UDFs provided with the Group Replication and what’s their purpose ?

SELECT UDF_NAME FROM performance_schema.user_defined_functions 
WHERE UDF_NAME LIKE 'group_repl%';
+-------------------------------------------------+
 | UDF_NAME                                        |
 +-------------------------------------------------+
 | group_replication_get_communication_protocol    |
 | group_replication_get_write_concurrency         |
 | group_replication_set_as_primary                | …

Percona Live provides the open source database community with an opportunity to discover and discuss the latest open source trends, technologies, and innovations. The conference includes the best and brightest innovators and influencers in the open source database industry.

This year, Percona Live is being held at the Hyatt Regency in Austin, Texas from May 28-30, 2019.

Pythian is proud to be a Silver Sponsor this year, with a full force of our technical experts speaking on a variety of subjects and technologies. These are sessions you won’t want to miss!

If you’re attending, make sure you swing by our booth and meet the Pythian crew. We’ll be happy to answer any questions you have about open source, cloud or anything data related. Our speakers will also be covering the event on social media and we’ll recap the event and their talks here on the Pythian …

Recently, I was working on one of the support ticket where customer was complaining that when he change datadir location by copying datadir from C: to F:, set mysql permissions and changing location in my.ini, he could not able to start mysql. Even no error msg in MySQL error log OR application log that why it doesn’t start.

We have checked all the required steps mentioned in documentations and blog posts but still the issue was not getting resolved. Finally, one of my colleague suggested to read this forum post.

https://forums.mysql.com/read.php?169,659235,659254#msg-659254

and we found out that NETWORK SERVICE permission is required for datadir. By default, it will be given to the C:\ but not for other drives. So when we change any datadir to other drive like E:\ or F:\, we …

During our presentation at Percona Live 2019 Intel and its software partners will introduce the audience to the work we’re doing to enable an open-source framework, we call Cloud Native Database. This is a collaborative effort between Intel, Rockset, PlanetScale, MariaDB and Percona.

Through the presentation the audience will be introduced to a set of principles and architectural elements that define what we mean by Cloud Native Database. We will discuss Rockset’s RocksDB-Cloud library and how it works with Facebook’s MyRocks storage engine. We also will cover …

In this blog post, we continue on our series of exploring MyRocks mechanics by looking at the configurable server variables and column family options. In our last post, I explained at a high level how data moves from its initial disk-written files into the full data set structure of MyRocks using a process called compaction. In this post, we’re going to look a little closer at two important features that are leveraged as data cascades down through this compaction process: bloom filters and compression.

Bloom filters

Before we approach how bloom filters are used in MyRocks, we need to know what a bloom filter is. The short definition is that a bloom filter is a space-efficient data structure used to tell you if an element is present in a set. Make sense? No? No problem! When I read that I didn’t really understand what it was either, at least not to a useful extent. For a better and more complete description of what a bloom filter …