In the previous blog, we have gone through the Basic operation of the Skeema tool. In this blog, we will see the production use case of the Skeema tool.

1. Selective schema setup :
2. All (Global) servers :
3. Selective server execution:
4. …

Mydumper supports streaming of backups right from version 0.11.3 and the latest version Mydumper 0.12.3 it enabled its support for compressed streaming backup. This was the most awaited feature added to Mydumper, making it a more powerful tool for data migration to RDS or Cloud.

If you are hearing mydumper for the first time, then let’s have a quick catch-up on what Mydumper is and what it does exactly.

Mydumper is a multithread logical backup and restores tool for MySQL and its forks. To know more you can refer to our previous blogs/presentations below.

• https://mydbops.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/faster-logical-backup-with-mydumper/
• …

As a Database Engineer, One of the biggest challenges in day-to-day activity is performing DDL on high-traffic and transaction-intensive tables. It will become overhead when handling a large number of servers/shards.

As a standard process, we will first deploy the changes in DEV and QA before deploying them in production.

In the sharded environment, It will become a heavy overhead to maintain the schema changes in DEV, QA, and PROD servers. Since we will have multiple servers in the sharding.

To overcome this deployment supervision, the Skeema tool will help to deploy the changes in QA, DEV, and PROD in a safe and parallel ( for Shards ) as well.

This blog focuses on the basic operation of Skeema, will have a series of blogs on Skeema

1. About the …

Another day, another company announces it changed its license away from open source while claiming “We Believe In A Model Of Sustainable Open Source.”

I’m not sure about you, but this rings to me as similar to an alleged quote about the Vietnam War: “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

What Lightbend’s CEO and Founder, Jonas Boner, really means is that they have decided that they do not believe an open source license (Apache 2.0) suits their business goals best any longer, and a proprietary, source available license (BSL) will be a better fit.

As an entrepreneur and business founder myself, I understand business is hard. Often, your choices are limited, especially if you’ve taken other …

There are two Operators at Percona to deploy MySQL on Kubernetes:

• one is based on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), production-ready and widely adopted
• another is based on Percona Server for MySQL, now in tech preview and not recommended for production yet

We wrote a blog post in the past explaining the thought process and reasoning behind creating the new Operator for MySQL. The goal for us is to provide production-grade solutions to run MySQL in Kubernetes and support various replication configurations:

• Synchronous replication
  …

Last week at Percona Live, I was asked what book I recommend for novices seeking to learn MySQL.  For a long time, there has not been a good choice for modern versions of MySQL. Luckily I had just stumbled upon such a book.  Now I am happy to recommend The MySQL Workshop – A practical guide to working with data and managing databases with MySQL by Petit and Cosentino.

The first chapter introduces database architectures, data types, storage engines (including MyRocks), and data normalization. The following chapter cover in great detail how to create a database, using MySQL Workbench, backups & restoring data, and creating indexes. Chapter four has a very good section on working with SQL, functions, and case statements. Then JOINs and stored procedures are covered.

In another book, that would probably be enough content, but later chapters plunge into using Node.JS, Access, and Excel with …

As you are probably aware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6 or EL 6 in short) officially reached “End of Life” (EOL) on 2020-11-30 and is now in the so-called Extended Life Phase, which basically means that Red Hat will no longer provide bug fixes or security fixes.

Even though EL 6 and its compatible derivatives like CentOS 6 had reached EOL some time ago already, we continued providing binary builds for selected MySQL-related products for this platform.

However, this became increasingly difficult, as the MySQL code base continued to evolve and now depends on tools and functionality that are no longer provided by the operating system out of the box. This meant we already had to perform several modifications in order to prepare binary builds for this platform, e.g. installing custom compiler versions or newer versions of various system …

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 …

In the first part of this short series, we went through the build of a full Clusterset architecture, which included 2 full clusters (3 members each) and an additional cluster with one member, which can serve different purposes. With the MySQL ClusterSet, there are new capabilities with the router instances. These features enable valuable options for users of… Read More »

InnoDB Cluster has been around for what feels like a long time. It is the core platform for MySQL High Availability. InnoDB Cluster NOW extends that core feature into a platform that also enables DR support where multiple Disaster Recovery Regions are capable.