by David Stokes | Mar 30, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
MySQL Shell For VS Code integrates the MySQL Shell directly into VS Code development workflows and was released last week. This extension to the popular VS Code platform enables interactive editing and execution of SQL for MySQL Databases and optionally the MySQL...
by Sveta Smirnova | Mar 29, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
The utf8mb4 character set is the new default as of MySQL 8.0, and this change neither affects existing data nor forces any upgrades. Migration to utf8mb4 has many advantages including: It can store more symbols, including emojis It has new collations for Asian...
by Mike Benshoof | Mar 24, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, PostgreSQL
DBAs can be set in their ways. Oftentimes, we start with a particular flavor and from that moment until the end of time, it will always be “the best”. In some cases, the debate is actually based on matching the use case to the proper tech (I’m looking at you SQL vs...
by Yves Trudeau | Mar 24, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
For a very long part of its history, MySQL replication has been limited in terms of performance. Because there was no way of knowing if transactions or updates were independent, the updates had to be executed on a replica following the exact same sequence of...
by Brian Sumpter | Mar 23, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Security
As part of my ongoing series around MySQL 8 user administration, I’d like to cover one of the new features introduced in MySQL 8.0.27 – multi-factor authentication. In order to establish identity, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the use of multiple...
by Brian Sumpter | Mar 22, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Security
In keeping with my MySQL 8 user administration and security theme, I’d like to discuss the password verification-required policy introduced in MySQL 8.0.13. With this feature, it is possible to require that attempts to change an account password be verified by...
by Sveta Smirnova | Mar 22, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
When MySQL client connects to the server it uses one of the authentication plugins. On the server-side, plugins are located in the directory, specified by the option plugin-dir that defaults to BASEDIR/lib/plugin where BASEDIR is the base directory of your MySQL...
by David Stokes | Mar 16, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
Oracle released MySQL 8.0.28 on January 18th with little fanfare, as part of their four times a year release cycle. So what is included in the new release? Over the past few years, there have been some cool new features included in these ‘dot’ releases that some in...
by Manish Chawla | Mar 10, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
KMIP (Key Management Interoperability Protocol) is an open standard developed by OASIS (Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards) for the encryption of stored data and cryptographic key management. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.27 and Percona...
by Vinicius Grippa | Feb 28, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
A little bit ago, I released a blog post comparing the backup performance of different MySQL tools such as mysqldump, the MySQL Shell feature called Instance Dump, mysqlpump, mydumper, and Percona XtraBackup. You can find the first analysis here: Backup Performance...
by Nik Krichko | Feb 16, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
It is always hard to select a CPU for your own purpose. You could waste hours reviewing different benchmarks, reviews, and bloggers, and in the end, we would limit all our requirements to performance and price. For performance measuring we already have some specific...
by Rahul malik | Feb 11, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Incremental backups of MySQL, specifically for the InnoDB engine, are taken by copying modified pages from the previous backup. The brute force method takes backups by scanning every page in tablespace file in the server data directory is an expensive operation. The...
by Arunjith Aravindan | Feb 9, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
It is essential to upgrade MySQL to the most recent version. Do you believe it’s tough to test and upgrade to a newer version? For a variety of reasons, including new features, performance advantages, bug corrections, and so on, databases with obsolete versions are...
by Rahul malik | Feb 8, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraBackup delivers the xbcloud binary – an auxiliary tool to allow users to upload backups to different cloud providers directly. Today we are glad to announce the support of the Azure Blob storage to xbcloud. This new feature will allow you to...
by Przemysław Malkowski | Feb 3, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) offers a great deal of flexibility when it comes to the state transfer (SST) options (used when a new node is automatically provisioned with data). For many environments, on-the-fly compression capability gives great benefits of saving...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 27, 2022 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Operators are a software framework that extends Kubernetes API and enables application deployment and management through the control plane. For such complex technologies as databases, Operators play a crucial role by automating deployment and day-to-day operations. At...
by Marcelo Altmann | Jan 20, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software
Backups are a key part of a disaster recovery strategy, making sure you can continue or restore your business in case of an unwanted event with your data. We always work on trying to improve Percona XtraBackup reliability, always favoring consistency, attempting to...
by Carlos Tutte | Jan 18, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software
The most common issue when using row-based replication (RBR) is replication lag due to the lack of Primary keys. The problem is that any replicated DML will do a full table scan for each modified row on the replica. This bug report explains it more in-depth:...
by Nik Krichko | Jan 17, 2022 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
Recently we published the first part (m5, m5a, m6g) and the second part (C5, C5a, C6g) of research regarding comparing Graviton ARM with AMD and Intel CPU on AWS. We selected general-purpose EC2 instances with the same configurations (amount of vCPU in the first...
by Marco Tusa | Jan 11, 2022 | MySQL, Percona Software
In April 2021, I wrote an article about Online DDL and Group Replication. At that time we were dealing with MySQL 8.0.23 and also opened a bug report which did not have the right answer to the case presented. Anyhow, in that article I have shown how an online DDL was...
