There may come a time you need to rename one or more columns in an existing MySQL table for a variety of reasons. Using ALTER TABLE, to rename a column is an easy enough command. But, suppose there are multiple tables in the same database/schema that have the same-named column and all of those columns need to be renamed. That could be a lot of ALTER TABLE statements to type out. Save your energy and time, avoiding all of those ALTER TABLE commands all-together. If you are lucky enough to be working with a MySQL version > 8.0 then the Shell is your salvation. With just a few lines of Python code in \py mode, all of your trouble(s) and headache(s) are no more…

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Date and time values are some of the most important datatypes in an RDBMS. From tracking order dates to payroll hours, DATE and DATETIME datatypes are used in all types of applications. At times as a Developer, you may need only certain portions of a DATE or DATETIME value. In MySQL, the EXTRACT() function can provide you with a specific component of a DATE or DATETIME value depending on which INTERVAL is given as a parameter. Continue reading to see example EXTRACT() queries for understanding…

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Have you ever had to type out a massive CREATE TABLE statement by hand? One with dozens of columns? Maybe several dozens of columns? There are likely some GUI tools to help with large CREATE TABLE commands. Or, other drag-n-drop types of software that I am not familiar with. What if you could write a few lines of Python code and take care of a huge CREATE TABLE statement with way less effort than typed manually? Interested? Continue reading and see how using pandas, pyodbc, and MySQL…

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If you are a developer working in a MySQL environment, this blog post is for you. I share 3 MySQL commands or statements that you should know. That is a bold statement, I know. Turns out, once you do know (of) these commands, you will use them all the time. They minimize guesswork which leads to better productivity in other facets of your programming and querying workflow. I use them myself almost daily and am sure you will too once you see how simple they are to use. So why should you know them? Continue reading and find out…

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In this post, I’ll cover examples of the MySQL TRIM() function. TRIM() removes specific characters – or spaces – from a given string, at either: the beginning, ending, or potentially in both locations depending on several factors. With an optional keyword argument that controls which character(s) – if any – are removed, TRIM() can be tricky so let’s gain understanding with several easy-to-digest examples…

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If you write MySQL queries, at some point you are going to have to provide query results in a specific order. To impose any ordering in MySQL (this applies to SQL overall and is not directed only at MySQL), you have to use the ORDER BY clause. Without it, there is no guaranteed order. The database is free to send back query results in any order. As I learn PHP, I make it a point to explore both the MySQL side, along with the PHP side in regards to similar type tasks and the efficiency of each. So far in my PHP journey, I have found that arrays are used quite extensively. In this post, I’ll cover array_multisort() – one of many in-built PHP functions – used for sorting arrays. In the context of the example data for this post, the arrays are populated by an unordered MySQL query. Let’s see one example of how you can establish a sorting order in a PHP …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.6.48 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 5.7.30 (release notes, download) with a new Galera Replication library 3.30 (release notes, download), implementing wsrep API version 25. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.6.48 and 5.7.30 respectively, making it a MySQL High Availability solution.

A highlight of this release is that with MySQL 5.7.30, you will now have access to using the Percona audit log plugin, which will help with monitoring and logging connection and query activity that has been performed on specific servers. This implementation is provided as an alternative to the MySQL Enterprise Audit Log Plugin.

The Galera Replication library 3.30 has an enhancement to ensure that upon GCache recovery, all available space will be reclaimed in the …

Codership is proud to announce the first Generally Available (GA) release of Galera Cluster 4 for MySQL 8 and improve MySQL High Availability a great deal. The current release comes with MySQL 8.0.19 and includes the Galera Replication Library 4.5 with wsrep API version 26. You can download it now (and note that we have packages for various Linux distributions). 

Galera 4 and MySQL 8.0.19 have many new features, but here are some of the highlights:

• Streaming replication to support large transactions by splitting transaction replication then applying them in smaller fragments. You can use this feature to load data faster, as data is written to all nodes simultaneously (or not at all in case of a failure in any single node).
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We recently covered Installing Galera Cluster 4 with MySQL 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 , the new Galera version for MySQL High Availability. We got a request to see if we would be able to install it on Amazon Linux 2, and the short answer is yes, we are able to deploy Galera Cluster on Amazon Linux 2.

We have even published Installing a Galera Cluster on AWS guide for Geo-distributed MySQL Multi-master clustering which covers how to install a 3-node Galera Cluster on CentOS 7 to achieve disaster recovery . It turns out, Amazon Linux 2 tends to be quite compatible with this article ( …

Since the beta of Galera Cluster 4 with MySQL 8 has been released, we’ve had people asking questions as to how to install it on Ubuntu 18.04. This blog post will cover just that.

Prerequisites

• All 3 nodes need to have Ubuntu 18.04 installed
• Firewall (if setup) needs to accept connections on 3306, 4444, 4567, 4568 (a default setup has the firewall disabled)
• AppArmor disabled (this is as simple as executing: systemctl stop apparmor and systemctl disable apparmor).

Installation and Configuration

We have good installation documentation as well as a quick how to get this installed in AWS (though this is CentOS centric).

First, you will need to ensure that the …