June 19, 2013

Comment: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL

Why does the mysql client says it’s 5.1.70? Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 138 Server version: 5.1.70-rel14.7-log Percona Server (GPL), 14.7, Revision 572

Post: Implementing SchemaSpy in your MySQL environment

… observing queries only.  An additional benefit is that SchemaSpy is command-line driven and builds the html after each run, so… package Creating a mysql.properties file While not explicitly required, I prefer to create this once so that the  command line is… Percona Server 5.6.10 sandbox: description=MySQL driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver connectionSpec=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:5610/schemaspy driverPath…

Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!

…, Percona Xtrabackup and Performance and Improvements and new Features in MySQL 5.6 Garrick Peterson, a member of Percona’s RemoteDBA… BigData with MySQL and Shard Query” Daniel Nichter, lead of the Percona Toolkit development team, will survey Percona Toolkit Command Line Tools…… :)   So register now! Please also join the Portland MySQL Meetup group for more MySQL-focused events in Portland If you love the…

Post: Experiences with the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin

… share my experience in this post. Auditing user activity in MySQL  has traditionally been challenging. Most data can be obtained from… the plugin: – audit_record_cmds : This is the list of commands you want written to the log (all the lists in… why that is the case. Maybe someone more knowledgeable in MySQL internals can enlighten me here. – audit_record_objs : List of…

Post: How to fix your PRM cluster when upgrading to RHEL/CentOS 6.4

…maintenance mode… but crm command is not present any more ;) It’s still possible to find the command install crmsh (crm …MySQL [p_mysql] (unmanaged) p_mysql:0 (ocf::percona:mysql): Master percona1 (unmanaged) p_mysql:1 (ocf::percona:mysql): Slave percona2 (unmanaged) p_mysql:2 (ocf::percona:mysql

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL available for download

… announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL on May 18, 2013. Downloads are available from our download…. Bugs Fixed: Using Perl’s DBD::MySQL package for server communication instead of spawning the MySQL command line client introduced a regression which… detection did not work correctly for latest Percona Server and MySQL 5.1 releases which could cause innobackupex to fail. Bugs…

Post: Disconnecting a replication slave is easier with MySQL 5.5+ (RESET SLAVE vs. RESET SLAVE ALL)

… corruption. MySQL provides the handy RESET SLAVE command. But as we’ll see, its behavior has changed along with the MySQL versions and… set master-xxx variables in my.cnf! From MySQL 5.5 Starting with MySQL 5.5, the situation has slightly changed. First… affected (0,04 sec) mysql> show slave status\G Empty set (0,00 sec) Very good! The command does work as expected without…

Post: Is your MySQL buffer pool warm? Make it sweat!

…_server:3307/slow | percona-playback –mysql-host 127.0.0.1 –mysql-username playback –mysql-password PaSSwOrd –mysql-schema schema_name –query-log-stdin… from stdin Percona Playback now supports the –query-log-stdin command-line option for accepting a never-ending stream of queries to playback. Read-only playback Using the –session-init-query command-line option, we set the option innodb_fake_changes to…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 for MySQL alpha now available

…. innobackupex now uses Perl’s DBD::MySQL package for server communication instead of spawning the MySQL command line client. Support for InnoDB 5.0 and InnoDB 5.1-builtin has been removed from Percona XtraBackup for MySQL… –remote-host has been completely removed in Percona XtraBackup for MySQL 2.1. Bugs Fixed: innobackupex now supports empty arguments in…

Post: Announcing Percona XtraBackup 2.1.1 GA

…, XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backup. The new 2.1.1 GA version offers improved…. innobackupex now uses Perl’s DBD::MySQL package for server communication instead of spawning the MySQL command line client. Support for InnoDB 5…