MySQL supports replicating to a slave that is one release higher. This allows us to easily upgrade our MySQL setup to a new version, by promoting the slave and pointing the application to it. However, though unsupported, there are times when the MySQL version of slave deployed is one release lower. In this scenario, […]
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GTID replication has made it convenient to setup and maintain MySQL replication. You need not worry about binary log file and position thanks to GTID and auto-positioning. However, things can go wrong when pointing a slave to a different master. Consider a situation where the new master has executed transactions that haven’t been executed […]
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In this post, we’ll look at the MySQL 8.0 innodb_dedicated_server variable.
MySQL 8.0 introduces a new variable called innodb_dedicated_server. When enabled, it auto tunes innodb_buffer_pool_size, innodb_log_file_size and innodb_flush_method at startup (if these variables are not explicitly defined in my.cnf).
The new MySQL 8.0 variable automatically sizes the following variables based on the RAM size of the […]
In this short blog post, I will show you how you can compare current and past time series in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM).
Recently, a support customer shared a graph with us that compared query throughput between today and yesterday as a confirmation that optimizing their server variables improved performance.
Do you want to compare […]
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to set up Percona PAM with Active Directory for external authentication.
In my previous article on Percona PAM, I demonstrated how to use Samba as a domain, and how easy it is to create domain users and groups via the samba-tool. Then we configured nss-pam-ldapd and nscd […]
In this blog, we’ll look at how to setup and troubleshoot the Percona PAM authentication plugin.
We occasionally get requests from our support clients on how to get Percona Server for MySQL to authenticate with an external authentication service via LDAP or Active Directory. However, we normally do not have access to client’s infrastructure to […]
In a previous article, Ovais demonstrated how a DDL can render a table blocked from new queries. In another article, Valerii introduced performance_schema.metadata_locks, which is available in MySQL 5.7 and exposes metadata lock details. Given this information, here’s a quick way to troubleshoot metadata locks by creating a stored procedure that can:
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Read moreOne of the common tasks requested by our support customers is to optimize slow queries. We normally ask for the table structure(s), the problematic query and sample data to be able to reproduce the problem and resolve it by modifying the query, table structure, or global/session variables. Sometimes, we are given access to the […]
Read morePercona Server is bundled with the PAM plugin which opens a plethora of ways to authenticate to MySQL such as restricting time when users can connect to MySQL, authenticate via a USB key, authenticate to an external authentication system such as LDAP and many, many more PAM compatible mechanisms.
If you want to use PAM […]
