Oct 13, 2023 |
Insight for DBAs, MySQL
A common practice among DBAs and developers is to copy table data and .frm files from the data dictionary. They often set up batch jobs to automate the recovery of these tables. This capability is also utilized in disaster recovery scenarios, where individuals well-versed in .frm files can reconstruct their metadata as needed. In MySQL […]
Mar 21, 2023 |
Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Security
In this blog, I’ll discuss the use case for replication. We want to improve our ability to replicate your data and limit replication to row-based events securely, wherein we do not have control over the source(s). The replica doesn’t have checking capabilities when processing replicated transactions as of MySQL 8.0.18. It does this to carry […]
Dec 28, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In managed services, we get requests to migrate from traditional to GTID-based replication. However, the customer does not want to first enable the GTID on the source node (production). Before MySQL 8.0.23, replication from the disabled GTID source to an enabled GTID replica was impossible. In this blog, I will talk about a new MySQL […]
Nov 29, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
We all know that data is important, and some businesses need historical data to be available all the time. The problem is that queries on large tables perform poorly if they are not properly optimized. We get many customer requests in Managed Services to purge/archive large tables, and to achieve it, we use pt-archiver. Recently, […]