A few weeks ago, we did a Galera Cluster webinar on Managed Galera Clusters on DigitalOcean.

Some of you may notice that the current version of Galera Manager is 1.6.4, and one of the major fixes we have in there is to support the new API token format of DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean has documented this here: Updated API Tokens new management features: in partnership with GitHub –Secret Scanning, Prefixes, and more! and as a consequence we needed to update to accept new API tokens, or it would fail in deployment. If you’re wondering how to create a …

We don’t always need all rows from the table as part of the final results set. You can use one (or more) of the comparison operators to filter the rows with a WHERE clause conditional. In this post, we are looking at the equality comparison operator (=)…

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The MySQL DATE() function is a built-in function you use to extract just the date portion from a DATE or DATETIME value. Learn how to use the DATE() function in this blog post…

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Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7 and 8.0, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.37 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.28 (release notes, download) with Galera replication library 3.37 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API …

The Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition

Codership is pleased to announce the Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition.

Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition consists of an enhanced Galera Cluster server, Galera Manager and Galera Load Balancer.

The enhanced Galera Cluster Server includes

1) A new Online Schema Upgrade method called Non Blocking Operations (NBO), adds more high availability to your cluster while performing schema changes.

• • Schema changes made on all cluster nodes in the same total order sequence, with much more efficient locking compared to the Total Order Isolation (TOI) method.
  • SET GLOBAL wsrep_OSU_method='NBO'

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I recently took some time to explore the MySQL GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP modifier. As a self-starter, I’m always unknowingly studying SQL concepts that I soon need for a query requirement. Call it luck or premonition, doesn’t matter to me. I’ll take these small wins thanks to my curiosity…

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Codership is pleased to announce a new release of Galera Manager. This is version 1.6.2 of Galera Manager GUI. Users will notice many usability improvements, and multiple fixes for issues filed at the galera-manager-support issue tracker.

The biggest user facing feature is now being able to deploy Galera Manager managed nodes on DigitalOcean, in addition to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Now with an access token, one can fully deploy a managed cluster from within Galera Manager. 3 node fully managed Galera Clusters on Digital Ocean in under 10 minutes? This is the promise and delivery of the latest Galera Manager.

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Being mindful of NULL values is a good practice. NULLs can slip up on you and give you a heck of a time (especially in calculations) if you aren’t careful. In this post, we will see examples of NULLtransformation with the MySQL COALESCE() function.

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