June 18, 2013

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha now available

… glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha on April 2, 2013. Downloads are available from our download…, the current stable version should be used (currently 2.0.6 in the 2.0 series at the time of writing). This release contains… notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup for MySQL 2.1.0-alpha1are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be reported…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL beta now available

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL beta on April 22, 2013. Downloads are available…, the current stable version should be used (currently 2.0.6 in the 2.0 series at the time of writing). This release contains… notes with all the bugfixes for Percona XtraBackup for MySQL 2.1.0-beta1 are available in our online documentation. Bugs can be…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 'release candidate' for MySQL available for download

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0-rc1 on May 7, 2013. Downloads are available from our…, the current stable version should be used (currently 2.0.7 in the 2.0 series at the time of writing). New Features: This…

Post: Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.3 for MySQL now available

… is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.3 for MySQL — high-quality components to add enterprise-grade…-replication-delay to be compatible with pt-hearbeat 2.1.8+ (bug 1103364) * Added 1-second granularity to pmp-check-mysql-deadlocks (bug…

Post: MySQL 5.6 Compatible Percona Toolkit 2.2 Released

… one more bug fix release (as 2.1.10) then retire. 2.2 is largely backward-compatible with 2.1, but some tools were changed significantly….  Now that we have four base versions of MySQL (5.0, 5.1, 5.5, and 5.6), plus at least four… https://launchpad.net/percona-toolkit/+milestone/2.2.1 for the full list.  If you upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2, be sure to re-read…

Post: Why use encrypted backup with Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL?

We just released our first alpha of Percona XtraBackup 2.1 for MySQL and with it we included the ability to … but also applies to simple off-site backups. Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0-alpha1 supports industry standard AES encryption and we use an…

Post: The write cache: Swap insanity tome III

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Post: Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table

… reports. This evolved into the SQL based MySQL, with MySQL 1.0 being released in 1995. The FoRM file specified what fields…), MYF(0)); DBUG_RETURN(1); } Which is, of course, obvious! Various parts of this limit are: info_length is roughly 2+strlen(field…) { my $n=cname($_); $sql.=”`$n`”; $sql.=” ENUM(‘Y’,'N’,'M’,’0‘,’1‘,’2‘)\n”; } chop $sql; chop $sql; $sql.=”);”; print $sql; This gets…

Post: How to recover table structure from InnoDB dictionary

…_ID | MIX_LEN | CLUSTER_NAME | SPACE | +————–+—–+——–+——+——–+———+————–+——-+ | sakila/actor | 741 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | | 738 | +————–+—–+——–+——+——–+———+————–+——-+ SYS_INDEXES This table lists all indexes the table…, SYS_INDEXES, SYS_COLUMNS and SYS_FIELDS from indexes 0-1, 0-3, 0-2 and 0-4 respectively. ./bin/constraints_parser.SYS_FIELDS -4f pages…

Post: Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

… ­­–rand­-init=on ­­–report­-interval=1 ­­–rand­-type=pareto \ –forced­-shutdown=1 ­­–max­-time=7200 ­­–max­-requests=0 ­­–percentile=95 ­­\ –mysql­-user=root…_size = 1G innodb_log_files_in_group = 2 innodb_purge_threads = 1 innodb_fast_shutdown = 1 #not innodb options (fixed) back_log = 50… = 4M thread_cache_size = 1000 query_cache_size = 0 query_cache_type = 0 ft_min_word_len = 4 thread_stack = 192K tmp…