Continuing from our Top MySQL DBA interview questions (Part 1) here are five more questions that test a MySQL DBA’s knowledge, with two that will help suss out some personality traits.

6. Disk I/O

Disk performance should be an ever-present concern to a DBA. So, although they don’t need to be a storage specialist, they should have a working knowledge. Ask them about RAID versions, mirroring versus striping, and so forth. Mirroring combines two disks as a unit. Every write is duplicated on both disks.

If you lose one disk, you have an immediate copy. Like a tandem truck that has spare tires running in parallel. Lose one, and you don’t have to pull over immediately to replace it. Striping spreads I/O over multiple disks so you on the one hand increase throughput linearly as you add disks.

Setting up replication in MySQL is something we need to do quite often. Slaves die, replication fails, or tables and data get out of sync. Whenever we build a slave, we must start with a snapshot of all the data from the master database.

MySQLdump is the tried-and-true method of doing this, however it requires that we lock all the tables in the database. If we’re dumping a large database, this could be a significant period, where no writing can happen to our database for the duration of the backup. For many environments read-only is still an outage.

How to Create a Slave Using Xtrabackup

Enter hotbackups to the rescue. Percona comes with a tool that allows you to perform hotbackups of a running MySQL database, with no blocking. It’s able to do this because of Innodb & multi-version concurrency control (MVCC). Luckily we don’t need to dig into the guts to enjoy the benefits of this great technology.

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MySQL DBAs are in greater demand now than they’ve ever been. While some firms are losing the fight for talent, promising startups with a progressive bent are getting first dibs with the best applicants.

Whatever the case, interviewing for a MySQL DBA is a skill in itself so I thought I’d share a guide of top MySQL DBA interview questions to help with your screening process.
It’s long and detailed with some background to give context so I will be publishing this in two parts.

The History of The DBA As A Career

In the Oracle world of enterprise applications, the DBA has long been a strong career path. Companies building their sales staff required Peoplesoft or SAP, and those deploying the financial applications or e-business suite needed operations teams to manage those systems.

At the heart of that operations team were database administrators or DBAs, a catchall title that …

Learn how to seamlessly add a new node to MySQL Group Replication from a backup. Scale your cluster, save time, and efficiently manage data updates and recoveries.

1. Hot Physical backup approach
2. Clone plugin approach
3. Logical backup approach

We highly recommend checking out our previous blog post on …

Explore the powerful features of Aurora Serverless V2 for MySQL in this informative blog series. Learn about read-only scaling, parameter support, and cost performance. Compare costs between Provisioned Aurora and Aurora Serverless V2. Discover key takeaways for optimizing your MySQL deployment on the cloud. Read now!

1. Read-only Scaling
   1. Failover replicas
   2. …

Ingress is a resource that is commonly used to expose HTTP(s) services outside of Kubernetes. To have ingress support, you will need an Ingress Controller, which in a nutshell is a proxy. SREs and DevOps love ingress as it provides developers with a self-service to expose their applications. Developers love it as it is simple to use, but at the same time quite flexible.

High-level ingress design looks like this: 

1. Users connect through a single Load Balancer or other Kubernetes service
2. Traffic is routed through Ingress Pod (or Pods for high availability)
   • There are multiple flavors of Ingress Controllers. Some use nginx, some envoy, or other proxies. See a curated list of Ingress Controllers here.
3. Based on HTTP headers traffic is routed …

The article covers the basic syntax of a MySQL SELECT statement and provides examples that show how to use a MySQL SELECT statement to retrieve data from tables. The primary task in database management is writing and executing queries – commands for retrieving and manipulating data in databases. Users describe the tasks via these queries, […]

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The authentication, the first level of security for each IT system, is the stage to verify the user identity through the basic username and password scheme. It is crucial to have a mechanism to protect and secure password storing and transmitting over network.

In MySQL, there is plenty of different authentication methods available, and last versions improved the security of this concept.

At the beginning, the mechanism, called mysql_old_password, was pretty insecure: it’s based on a broken hashing function and the password is 16 bytes long. It was not so complex for attackers to find a plaintext password from the hash stored in the password column of …

The authentication, the first level of security for each IT system, is the stage to verify the user identity through the basic username and password scheme. It is crucial to have a mechanism to protect and secure password storing and transmitting over network.

In MySQL, there is plenty of different authentication methods available, and last versions improved the security of this concept.

At the beginning, the mechanism, called mysql_old_password, was pretty insecure: it’s based on a broken hashing function and the password is 16 bytes long. It was not so complex for attackers to find a plaintext password from the hash stored in the password column of …

Containers are eating the world. If you have built and deployed an application in production over the last few years, the odds are that you have deployed your code in containers. You might have created and deployed individual containers (Docker, Linux LXC, etc.) directly in the beginning, but quickly switched over to a container orchestration technology like Kubernetes (K8s) or Swarm when you needed to coordinate multi-node deployments and high availability (HA). In this container-driven world, what will the future of the application stack look like? Let’s start with what we need from this “future” application stack.

What Do We Need From This Future Application Stack?

1. Cloud Agnostic

   We …