Keeping Your Data Safe: An Introduction to Data-at-Rest Encryption in Percona XtraDB Cluster. In the first part of this blog post, we learned how to enable GCache and Record-Set cache encryption in Percona XtraDB Cluster. This part will explore the details of the implementation to understand what happens behind the scenes. How does it work […]

Keeping Your Data Safe: An Introduction to Data-at-Rest Encryption in Percona XtraDB Cluster. Data breaches are a major concern today. Whether you’re a business owner or value your privacy, the thought of your sensitive information being exposed is unsettling. Fortunately, data-at-rest encryption can help. Think of it as a sophisticated lock that scrambles your data, […]

Any Galera documentation about limitations will state that tables must have primary keys. They state that DELETEs are unsupported and other DMLs could have unwanted side-effects such as inconsistent ordering: rows can appear in different order on different nodes in your cluster.If you are not actively relying on row orders, this could seem acceptable. Deletes […]

Galera Manager supports three modes for supporting your Percona XtraDB Clusters: deploying to either Amazon Web Services, deploying to your own on premises hosts, and also just monitoring your clusters. In this blog post, we will go thru houw you should deploying a 3-node Percona XtraDB Cluster via Galera Manager on Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2). You will realise that this process happens with just a simple API key and instance selection, so effectively you can have a Galera Manager setup in under fifteen minutes!

On AWS EC2, it is worth noting that Galera Manager itself can be deployed on the free tier for testing purposes. However, in production environments, you might expect up to 100GB of logs on a monthly basis, so you should plan accordingly.

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The momentum around Galera Manager development has been amazing. You report bugs or feature requests, and we fix them!

The major reason to release this was to ensure that Galera Manager would accept the new signing keys of Galera Cluster (key ID: 8DA84635).

One will now also note that gm-installer reports a new version: gm-installer version 1.12.0 (linux/amd64). And when you install it, Galera Manager itself is now at version 1.8.3. One of the major fixes is that Ubuntu 22.04 support for self-provided hosts is now exposed in the UI. This fixes …

Recently I noted a strange MySQL replication error in a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) node replicating from a standard MySQL instance. “Node has dropped from cluster”. This is a quick blog…

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Are you planning an upgrade for your Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)? Upgrading to PXC 8.0 can be a smooth process, but sometimes challenges arise that require careful troubleshooting. In this…

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Recently, I was working on a very unfortunate case that revolved around diverging clusters, data loss, missing important log errors, and forcing commands on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC). Even though PXC tries its best to explain what happens in the error log, I can vouch that it can be missed or overlooked when you do not know what to expect.

This blog post is a warning tale, an invitation to try yourself and break stuff (not in production, right?).

TLDR:
Do you know right away what happened when seeing this log?

2023-06-22T08:23:29.003334Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-000000] [Galera] gcs/src/gcs_group.cpp:group_post_state_exchange():433: Reversing history: 171 -> 44, this member has applied 127 more events than the primary component.Data loss is possible. Must abort.

Demonstration

Using the …

Course Dates

Public course: EMEA timezone 26th of September. USA timezone 27th of September.

Company dedicated training or consulting session, request for dates for your company via email to: sales@galeracluster.com

Course Duration

1 day.  The breakdown is 3 hours, with a half hour lunch break, and another 3 hours per day. There will be bio-breaks. The total contact time with the trainer is 6 hours over a span of 1 day.

Requirements

• You need to be able to use Zoom the platform we will be using
• You will need to have access to an SSH client. Being in a Microsoft Windows environment is OK, but you need to have SSH to access the remote servers that we provide you access to.
• Some basic understanding of Linux (e.g. package management) as well as MySQL
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In this blog post, I will try to cover a few dump and data-loading utilities offered by MySQL Shell.

What is MySQL Shell?

It is a robust client and code editor for MySQL. In addition to having APIs for dealing with MySQL, MySQL Shell offers scripting capabilities for JavaScript and Python. It provides an AdminAPI to manage MySQL servers and create InnoDB Cluster and ReplicaSet deployments. It supports an X DevAPI to work on both SQL and NoSQL interfaces via the X Protocol. Finally, it provides utilities to make working with MySQL in Python and Javascript mode easier.

Now, let’s jump into some practical stuff and see what these tools offer us.

Dump Utility

In the dump utility, there are three tools: util.dumpInstance(), util.dumpSchemas(), and util.dumpTables () so let’s discuss them one by one. 

1.  “util.dumpInstance()” – This was introduced in MySQL Shell 8.0.21 and …