June 19, 2013

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

… #1167109. Fixed the CVE-2012-5627 vulnerability, where an unprivileged MySQL account owner could perform brute-force password guessing attack on… to missing libdbd-mysql-perl package. Fixed by adding the package dependency. Bug fixed #1003776. XtraDB changed page tracking used to hold…

Post: Migrating between MySQL schemas with Percona Xtrabackup

… with a client that asked about using Percona Xtrabackup to take a snapshot of a particular MySQL schema and then reload it… database:  mysql orig_old < /tmp/orig.schema.sql Ensure innodb_import_table_from_xtrabackup = 1  (dynamic variable) Prepare the backup using the…_old Make sure that the files are owned by mysql: chown mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql/orig_old/* For each table, run: ALTER TABLE…

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

… question asked; my initial reaction was, honestly, why would you ever want to use MySQL on top of something like that? I can…: Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/servers.frm’ ERROR: 1033 Incorrect information in file: ‘./mysql/servers.frm’ Running mysql_install_db under strace, I…

Post: Summertime Percona MySQL training update

… course. Percona has a packed summer MySQL training schedule. In June we have: Moving to MySQL 5.6 – Austin, TX Begins Monday…, FL Begins Monday, August 5, 2013 , 9am – 5pm Moving to MySQL 5.6 – Minneapolis, MN Begins Thursday, August 8, 2013 , 9am…, 2013 , 9am – 5pm We have a 10% discount code for use when ordering, register early and save even more as the…

Post: MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized - Webinar questions followup

On Friday I gave a presentation on “MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized” for Percona MySQL Webinars.  If you missed it, you can still… using replication, a temporary table could vanish if the slave restarts and then subsequent queries against the temp table fail. Q: Why… you explain more about why you thought about doing that and why it helped? When I did not use the STRAIGHT_JOIN, the…

Post: Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.31-30.3 now available

… that could cause a memory leak if query cache was used together with InnoDB. Bug fixed #1170103. Fixed the RPM packaging… #1171941. Fixed the CVE-2012-5627 vulnerability, where an unprivileged MySQL account owner could perform brute-force password guessing attack on… MDEV-3915). Bug fixed #1172090. mysql_set_permission was failing on Debian due to missing libdbd-mysql-perl package. Fixed by adding…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL available for download

… 2.1 version to 2.1.3 if you’re using the Percona XtraBackup with Percona XtraDB Cluster. This release is… 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: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 1

… it necessary to make the master read-only? Can we use regular replication for some slaves and GTID replication for other… restart it: mysql> show slave status\G [...] Slave_IO_Running: No Slave_SQL_Running: Yes [...] The error log tells us why the IO… using GTID-based replication by inspecting the output of SHOW SLAVE STATUS? Look at the last field, Auto_Position: # Slave #1 mysql

Post: Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 first Release Candidate now available

… id=”attachment_13396″ align=”alignright” width=”247″] Percona Server for MySQL version 5.6.11-60.3[/caption] Percona is glad… available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.6.11, including all the bug fixes in it…: Transaction objects are now allocated calling calloc() directly instead of using InnoDB heap allocation. This may improve write performance for high…

Comment: ZFS on Linux and MySQL

… and MySQL. One question, why with 192GB of memory, did you limit the ARC to 4GB? Also wondering if any one is using ZFS and MySQL to thin clone databases meaning using a snapshot of a source database and…