In my previous summary blog post I listed 5 problems I see with the way Oracle handles MySQL server development. The first of them was that "Oracle does not develop MySQL server in a true open source way" and this is actually what I started my draft of that entire blog post with. Now it's time to get into details, as so far there was mostly fun around this and statements that MariaDB also could do better in the related Twitter discussion I had.

So, let me explain what forces me to think that Oracle is treating MySQL somewhat wrong for the open source product.

Recently it's quite common to state that "Oracle's Acquisition Was Actually the Best Thing to Happen to MySQL". I am not going to argue with that - Oracle proved over years that they are committed to continue active development of this great open source RDBMS, and they have invested a lot into making it better and implementing features that were missed or became important recently. Unlike Sun Microsystems, they seem to clearly know what to do with this software to make it more popular and make money on it.

Among the right things Oracle does for MySQL server development I'd like to highlight the following:

1. MySQL server development continues, with new features added, most popular OSes supported, regular releases …

I just posted an article on the Percona Community Blog.  You can access it following this link:

A Nice Feature in MariaDB 10.3: no InnoDB Buffer Pool in Core Dumps

I do not know if I will stop publishing posts on my personal blog or use both, I will see how things go...  In the rest of this post, I will share why I published there and how things went in the process.

So there is a Percona

This is the 5th blog in series of Maxscale blog, Below is the list of our previous blogs, Which provides deep insight for Maxscale and its use cases for different architectures.

• Scale with Maxscale part -1 (Intro & Galera Cluster)
• Scale with Maxscale part – 2 (Administration, Installation & operation)
• Scale with Maxscale part – 3 (Replication M-S)
• …

Another story that I've prepared back in April for my meeting with one of customers in London was a "compression story". We spent a lot of time on it in several support issues in the past, with only limited success.

In case of InnoDB tables, there are actually two ways to compress data (besides relying on filesystem compression or compressing individual columns at server or application side). Historically the first one was introduced by the Barracuda InnoDB file format and ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED it supported. Notable number of related bugs were reported with time, and it may be not that easy to identify them all (you can find current list of bugs tagged with "compression" …

So when it comes to routing your MySQL traffic several options exist.

• HAproxy
• MariaDB MaxScale
• NGINX
• MySQL Router
• ProxySQL
• You can even still get MySQL Proxy if you wanted it but it is EOF. 

Now I have seen HAproxy used more often with clients, it is pretty straight forward to set up. Percona has an example for those interested: 

• …

Encryption is a very important form of security and It’s becoming a standard from a compliance perspective to ensure PCI, PII and HIPPA compliances. Encryption needs to be performed for Data at Rest, Data over Wire.

Data At Rest:

• Until 5.6, To encrypt the MySQL data files, Only disk level encryption possible (Gazzang, Luks)
• From 5.7.11 MySQL added a feature for tablespace encryption. Which encrypts only the …

I stopped reviewing MySQL Release Notes for quite a some time, but major GA releases of MySQL do not happen often, so I decided to make an exception and write about some bugs from Community users fixed in MySQL 8.0.11 GA.

I'll start with good news about MySQL 8.0.11 GA! You can get sources at GitHub, and I had no problems to build on Fedora 27 on my good old QuadCore box, using the following cmake command line:
[openxs@fc23 mysql-server]$ cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release -DFEATURE_SET=community -DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=OFF -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=1 -DWITH_BOOST=/home/openxs/boost …

I think it's time to review some bugs I've subscribed to several months ago, those older than in the first post from this series. There are several really serious bugs in the list of 15 below:

• Bug #87560 - "XA PREPARE log order error in replication and binlog recovery". This bug was reported by Wei Zhao, who also provided patches.
• Bug #87526 - "The output of 'XA recover convert xid' is not useful". This bug reported by Sveta Smirnova is well known and is a real pain for DBAs who have to deal with incomplete XA transactions after some crash or unexpected restart. Check  …

Managing Heterogeneous environment without automation can be tricky. We are using Ansible as an automation tool for install, configure and manage DB infra for Mydbops. Using Ansible, we overcome a lot of obstacle’s and we would like to share our learning with the community ( Our Presentation on Ansible )

Best Practices to write Ansible Plays

Use Native YAML Syntax

Ansible Tasks and Playbook are written in YAML. We can format YAML in different ways

1. shorthand/one-line (=)
2. structured map (:)
3. folded scalars (>)

Shorthand/one-line (=)

e.g.:
- name: …