Yesterday, I published an article explaining how to easily deploy Apache Superset on OCI using MySQL HeatWave Database Service.

There are some people not using the automation or not using MySQL HeatWave Database Service on OCI but want to still use Superset with MySQL 8.0.

In this blog, we will see how to fix eventual errors when performing the installation manually.

SQL Alchemy Dialect Configuration

When using MySQL 8.0, in Superset’s config file, you need to specify the SQLAlchemy URI like this:

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'mysql+mysqlconnector://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<superset_schema>'

It is important to specify the database backend and dialect: mysql+mysqlconnector.

Of course you need to install the MySQL …

We already saw how to deploy Apache Superset with MySQL HeatWave.

I just released a new version of the Terraform modules including some configuration parameters for a future development related to High Availability.

So let’s see the easiest way to deploy Superset on OCI using MySQL HeatWave.

Quick Deployment

The default deployment is the following:

The fastest and easiest way to deploy such architecture is to click on the button below:

When you click on the button, you will reach the following screen if you are …

Last time we tried to connect to a MySQL DB instance in OCI with Cloud Shell, we needed to use the bastion service. See here.

Now, we also have the possibility to bypass the bastion host as Cloud Shell offers the possibility to change network.

As you know, in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a MySQL DB instance is not exposed in the public subnet and doesn’t have the possibility to get a public IP.

In the Private Subnet, we often have a security list allowing all internal IPs (from public and private subnet of the VCN) to connect to the MySQL port(s).

If the security list is present, we can click on the Cloud Shell icon and once loaded, change the network:

We need to create a new Private Network Definition:

In case you don’t have the ports open for MySQL in the …

I already wrote on how to deploy WordPress on OCI using MySQL HeatWave, the MySQL Database Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:

• Using MySQL Database Service for WordPress
• Deploying WordPress on OCI with MySQL Database Service: the easy way !
• Deploy WordPress on OCI using MDS – updated version
• Deploy WordPress on OCI with MySQL Database Service using Read Replicas
• …

Some times it’s important to know the size of a transaction, especially when you plan to migrate to a HA solution where by default transactions have a limited size to guarantee an optimal behavior of the cluster.

Today we will see the different possibilities to have an idea of the size of transactions.

First we need to split the transaction in two types:

• those generating data (writes, like insert, delete and update, DML)
• those only ready data (select, DQL)

To implement High Availability, only the first category is important.

Size of DML

To know the size of a DML transaction, the only possibility we have is to parse the binary log (or query the binlog event).

We need to check the binlog event from the binlog file and then calculate its size. To illustrate this, let’s try to find the transaction identified by a specific GTID: …

When you connect to a server (or cluster) using a TCP proxy level 7, also referred to as an application-level or Layer 7 proxy (highest level of the OSI model), the application doesn’t connect directly to the back-end server(s). The proxy usually understands the protocol used and can eventually take some decisions or even change the request.

The problem when using such proxy (like HA Proxy, ProxySQL and MySQL Router) is that the server doesn’t really know from where the client is connecting. The server sees the IP address of the proxy/router as the source IP of the client.

HA Proxy initially designed the Proxy Protocol, a simple protocol that allows a TCP connection to transport proxy-related information between the client, the proxy server and the destination server. The main purpose of the Proxy Protocol is then to preserve the client’s original IP address (with some others metadata). See …

The latest MySQL release has been published on April 18th, 2023 (my eldest daughter’s birthday).This new version of MySQL brings a new service that I’m excited to play with: Performance Schema Server Telemetry Traces Service. MySQL 8.0.33 contains bug fixes and contributions from our great MySQL community.

I would like to thank all contributors on behalf of the entire Oracle MySQL team !

MySQL 8.0.33 contains patches from Mikael Ronström, Evgeniy Patlan, Dmitry Lenev, HC Duan, Marcelo Altmann, Facebook, Nico Pay, Dan McCombs, Yewei Xu, Niklas Keller, Mayank Mohindra and Alex Xing.

Let’s have a look at all these contributions:

MySQL NDB Cluster

• #103814 – ClusterJ partition key scratch buffer size too small – …

Today, I would like to present this new book from Rick Silva: MySQL Crash Course – A Hands-on Introduction to Database Development, No Starch Press, 2023.

I participated in this project as technical reviewer and I really enjoyed reading the chapters Rick was writing as soon as they were ready… and thank you Rick for the kind words to me in the book 😉

About the book, if you are ready to dive into the world of database management but you don’t know where to start, this book is the perfect guide for beginners eager to learn MySQL quickly and efficiently.

MySQL Crash Course is a concise and practical guide to learn how to use the most popular Open Source Database.

The book is filled with examples, tips, expert advice and exercises.

Reading the book, you will …

In this new article about how to find the info when using MySQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we will learn about the query accelerator: HeatWave.

With HeatWave, you can boost the performance of your MySQL queries, providing your applications with faster, more reliable, and cost-effective access to data.

HeatWave is a high-performance in-memory query accelerator for MySQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. It is designed to accelerate analytics workloads (OLAP) and increase the performance of your MySQL databases by orders of magnitude. This is achieved through the use of in-memory processing, advanced algorithms, and machine learning techniques to optimize query performance. If identified by the optimizer, OLTP requests can also be accelerated using HeatWave.

Today we will try to answer the following questions:

1. Can I use HeatWave ?
2. Is HeatWave enabled ?
…

As a MySQL DBA, you like to know who is connected on the system you manage. You also like to know who is trying to connect.

In this article, we will discover how we can retrieve the information and control who is using the MySQL DB instance we launched in OCI.

Secure Connections

The first thing we can check is that all our clients encrypt their connection to the MySQL server.

We use again Performance_Schema to retrieve the relevant information:

select connection_type, substring_index(substring_index(name,"/",2),"/",-1) name,
       sbt.variable_value AS tls_version, t2.variable_value AS cipher,
       processlist_user AS user, processlist_host AS host
from performance_schema.status_by_thread AS sbt
join performance_schema.threads AS t 
  on t.thread_id = sbt.thread_id
join performance_schema.status_by_thread AS t2 
  on t2.thread_id = t.thread_id
where sbt.variable_name = 'Ssl_version' and …