June 20, 2013

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… why that is the case. Maybe someone more knowledgeable in MySQL internals can enlighten me here. – audit_record_objs : List of… important missing feature on the server, which has made using MySQL in PCI or SOX compliant environments, to name just two…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL available for download

… to faster restore time XtraBackup makes MySQL hot backups for all versions of Percona Server, MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle. It performs streaming, compressed, and incremental MySQL backups. Percona’s enterprise-grade commercial MySQL Support contracts include support for XtraBackup. We…

Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland: June 17

…, free, fast-paced and very technical MySQL educational event for wide range of people interested in MySQL – Developers, System Administrators, DBAs, etc… speaking opportunities available – if you would like to share your MySQL story at this event please email Matthew Dowell by Tuesday…

Comment: Converting Character Sets

… the manual – http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html “For a column that has a data type… the data type as necessary to ensure that the new column is long enough to store as many characters as the original column.” [followed by a complete explanation of why TEXT coverts to…

Post: How people are using MySQL... from 1 user to 100 million (upcoming conference talk)

MySQL can be deployed in several ways, and that means you …

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - Post-Webinar Q&A

… is my recommendation for MySQL 5.6? Is MHA ready for MySQL 5.6? A: My personal recommendation for MySQL 5.6, based…: Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/servers.frm’ ERROR: 1033 Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/servers.frm’ Running mysql_install_db under strace, I…

Comment: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 2

… the design of MySQL 5.6 global transaction ID. In general, there is no ordering implied between events, because multi-threaded slave… of events missing. Well, if the user is not using multi-threaded slave, perhaps the notion of “last executed” and “specific…

Comment: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL available for download

… better by reporting any bugs at http://bugs.percona.com/ key_buffer_size=52428800 read_buffer_size=131072 max_used_connections…=6 It is possible that mysqld could use up to key_buffer_size + (read_buffer_size + sort_buffer_size)*max_threads…:53:56 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/srv-d2-mysql02.pid ended in an another environment I…

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

…: ms_MySQL [p_mysql] (unmanaged) p_mysql:0 (ocf::percona:mysql): Master percona2 (unmanaged) p_mysql:1 (ocf::percona:mysql): Started percona3 (unmanaged) Stopped: [ p_mysql:2..._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: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - MySQL Webinar: June 5

….  We will then explore some of the more well-known MySQL HA tools and technologies available today (largely grouped into those which use traditional MySQL replication, those which use some other MySQL-level replication, and those which replicate at…