Recently, I was working with a client that asked about using Percona Xtrabackup to take a snapshot of a particular MySQL schema and then reload it with a different schema name on the same server. It caught me off guard because I’d never really thought about it – typically, I’ve used Xtrabackup simply to clone [...]
Choosing a MySQL HA Solution – Post-Webinar Q&A
June 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to everyone who was in attendance on 05 June 2013 for my “Choosing a MySQL HA Solution” webinar. If you weren’t able to make it but are interested in listening to the presentation, it’s currently up and available for viewing over at percona.com. My apologies if we weren’t able to get to your question [...]
Implementing SchemaSpy in your MySQL environment
June 4, 2013 By 2 Comments
Lately I have been working with a set of customers on a longer term basis which has given me time to explore new tools using their environments. One tool that I am finding very helpful is called SchemaSpy. SchemaSpy is a Java-based tool (requires Java 5 or higher) that analyzes the metadata of a schema in [...]
The small improvements of MySQL 5.6: Duplicate Index Detection
May 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Here at the MySQL Performance Blog, we’ve been discussing the several new features that MySQL 5.6 brought: GTID-based replication, InnoDB Fulltext, Memcached integration, a more complete performance schema, online DDL and several other InnoDB and query optimizer improvements. However, I plan to focus on a series of posts on the small but handy improvements – [...]
Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations – Part 2
May 30, 2013 By 6 Comments
The main benefit of using GTIDs is to have much easier failover than with file-based replication. We will see how to change the replication topology when using GTID-based replication. That will show where GTIDs shine and where improvements are expected. This is the second post of a series of articles focused on MySQL 5.6 GTIDs. [...]
Choosing a MySQL HA Solution – MySQL Webinar: June 5
May 28, 2013 By 1 Comment
Selecting the most appropriate solution for a MySQL HA infrastructure is as much a business and philosophical decision as it is a technical one, but often the choice is made without adequately considering all three perspectives. When too much attention is paid to one of these aspects at the cost of the others, the resulting [...]
ZFS on Linux and MySQL
May 24, 2013 By 17 Comments
I am currently working with a large customer and I am involved with servers located in two data centers, one with Solaris servers and the other one with Linux servers. The Solaris side is cleverly setup using zones and ZFS and this provides a very low virtualization overhead. I learned quite a lot about these [...]
Experiences with the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin
May 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
I recently had to do some customer work involving the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin and would like to share my experience in this post. Auditing user activity in MySQL has traditionally been challenging. Most data can be obtained from the slow or general log, but this involves a lot of data you don’t need too, and [...]
How to create a new (or repair a broken) GTID based slave with Percona XtraBackup
May 9, 2013 By 3 Comments
Percona XtraBackup 2.0.7 has been published with support for GTID based replication. As promised, here is the step-by-step guide on how to create a new GTID based slave (or repair a broken one) using XtraBackup. The process is pretty straightforward. 1- Take a backup from any server on the replication environment, master or slave: # [...]
Galera Flow Control in Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL
May 2, 2013 By 5 Comments
Last week at Percona Live, I delivered a six-hour tutorial about Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL. I actually had more material than I covered (by design), but one thing I regret we didn’t cover was Flow control. So, I thought I’d write a post covering flow control because it is important to understand. What [...]
