Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.4 on December 10, 2018. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate …

Introduction In this article, we will show how to perform routine data export from multiple files by a certain mask with help of the Data Import functionality of dbForge Studio for MySQL and how to schedule the recurring execution of the import with Microsoft Task Scheduler. Scenario Suppose, we need to simultaneously import multiple daily […]

Probably all of us, MySQL users, DBAs and developers had seen error 1213 more than once, in one context or the other:
mysql> select * from t1;
ERROR 1213 (40001): Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transactionThe first thing that comes to mind in this case is: "OK, we have InnoDB deadlock, let's check the details", followed by the SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS check, like this:
mysql> show engine innodb status\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
  Type: InnoDB
  Name:
Status:
=====================================
2018-12-08 17:41:11 0x7f2f8b8db700 INNODB MONITOR OUTPUT
=====================================
Per second averages calculated from the last 12 seconds
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BACKGROUND THREAD
…

When Tungsten Replicator extracts data, the information that has been extracted is written down into the Tungsten History Log, or THL. These files are in a specific format and they are used to store all of the extracted information in a format that can easily be used to recreate and generate data in a target.

Each transaction from the source is written into the THL as an event, so within a single THL file there will be one or more events stored. For each event, we record information about the overall transaction, as well as then information about the transaction itself. That event can contain one or more statements, or rows, or both. Because we don’t want to get an ever increasing single file, the replicator will also divide up the THL into multiple files to tmake the data easier to manage.

We’ll get down into the details soon, until then, let’s start by looking at the basics of the THL, files and sequence numbers and how to …

… or what I should keep in mind in case of disaster

To retrieve and maintain in SQL format the definition of all tables in a database, is a best practice that we all should adopt. To have that under version control is also another best practice to keep in mind.

While doing that may seem redundant, it can become a life saver in several situations. From the need to review what has historically changed in a table, to knowing who changed what and why… to when you need to recover your data and have your beloved MySQL instance not start…

But let’s be honest, only a few do the right thing, and even fewer keep that information up to date. Given that’s the case, what can we do when we have the need to discover/recover the table structure?

From the beginning, MySQL has used some external files to describe its internal structure.

For instance, if I have a schema named windmills and a table …

This tutorial help to upload files using Laravel 5.7.We will create html form view that upload file into server and save path information into MySQL table. We will use MySQL and php 7 to create file upload functionality. File Upload Using Laravel 5.7 and Mysql Lets create new laravel application using laravel CLI. The Artisan […]

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In this blog, I will provide a step by step procedure to migrate from on-premise MySQL to Amazon RDS/Aurora using Percona-xtrabackup

Both RDS and Aurora is a DBAAS provided by Amazon. To know more on DBAAS you can view our presentation here.

When you are having a database in size of few GB, it would be very convenient to take a logical backup using a logical backup tool such as Mysqldump or Mydumper and restore it Amazon RDS/Aurora easily. But this is not the case when you are having a data size of a few hundred GB or TB, Where the logical backup and restore is very painful and time-consuming. To overcome this we can use …

Have you been experiencing slow MySQL startup times in GTID mode? We recently ran into this issue on one of our MySQL hosting deployments and set out to solve the problem. In this blog, we break down the issue that could be slowing down your MySQL restart times, how to debug for your deployment, and what you can do to decrease your start time and improve your understanding of GTID-based replication.

How We Found The Problem

We were investigating slow MySQL startup times on a low-end, disk-based MySQL 5.7.21 deployment which had GTID mode enabled. The system was part of a master-slave pair and was under a moderate write load. When restarting during a scheduled …

A very common and oft-repeated programmer’s wisdom is “Don’t use floats for currency”. This always made a lot of sense to me. The idea is that floats are imprecise, due to the way they are stored.

Effectively floats are stored not by just their digits, but by a formula. This formula can’t accurately represent every fraction. The most popular way to demonstrate this is by firing up your Javascript developer console and run:

> 0.3 - 0.2
0.09999999999999998

The answer you’ll get is not 0.1, it’s 0.09999999999999998. According to many, this is easy proof why floats are bad for money.

It’s also not really something you want to put on an invoice. Some suggestions to avoid floats include:

• Generally when dealing with money, use specialized data stores. MySQL for …

Queries have to be cached in every heavily loaded database, there is simply no way for a database to handle all traffic with reasonable performance. There are various mechanisms in which a query cache can be implemented. Starting from the MySQL query cache, which used to work just fine for mostly read-only, low concurrency workloads and which has no place in high concurrent workloads (to the extent that Oracle removed it in MySQL 8.0), to external key-value stores like Redis, memcached or CouchBase.

The main problem with using an external dedicated data store (as we would not recommend to use MySQL query cache to anyone) is that this is yet another datastore to manage. It is …