My post-FOSDEM detox has started - despite preparing by reading some survival guides, I hadn't really fathomed the variety and quantity (and quality) of beer that would flow over four days.  On reflection however, the beer flow has been far exceeded by the flow of tech content and conversation.

On Thursday and Friday I attended the pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days fringe event, where there were two tracks of talks and tutorials on MySQL including sessions on :
 - MySQL Server simplification
 - MySQL replication tooling improvements
 - Configuring group replication
 - Troubleshooting group replication
 - Using DNS for loadbalancing and failover
 - Upgrading to MySQL 8.0 …

In my previous post (Puzzled by MySQL Replication), I describe a weird, but completely documented, behavior of replication that had me scratching my head for hours because it was causing data corruption.  I did not give too many details then as I also wanted allowing you to scratch your head if you wished.  In this post, I describe this behavior in more details.

But first I need to

The snapshot in Debezium will do a historical data load from the source database to the Kafka topics. But generally its not a good practice to this if you have a huge data in your tables. Recently I have published many blog posts to perform this snapshot from Read Replica(with/without GTID, AWS Aurora). One guy commented that, in GCP the MySQL managed service is called CloudSQL. There we don’t have much control to stop replication, perform the modifications that we want. So how can we avoid snapshots in CloudSQL and take debezium snapshots from CloudSQL Read Replica? I have spent some time today and figured out a way to do this.

The Approach:

We can’t enable binlogs on read replica. So we have to setup an external read replica for this. If the external replica is a VM, then we can enable the log-slave-updates with GTID. Then we can …

In a follow-up to the work presented on MySQL 8.0.18  where we introduced privilege checks for slave applier threads, in this post we present a new feature to further increase your ability to securely replicate your data: you can now restrict replication streams to row based events only.…

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Here comes another MySQL release, and together with it, a set of new replication features. As usual, we would like to summarize them. And, also as usual, follow up blogs will provide further details.

• Configure Replication Applier to Require Row-based Replication only.

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Recently, I was puzzled by MySQL replication !  Some weird, but completely documented, behavior of replication had me scratching my head for hours.  I am sharing this war story so you can avoid losing time like me (and also maybe avoid corrupting your data when restoring a backup).  The exact justification will come in a follow-up post, so you can also scratch your head trying

In my previous post, I have shown you how to take the snapshot from Read Replica with GTID for Debezium MySQL connector. GTID concept is awesome, but still many of us using the replication without GTID. For these cases, we can take a snapshot from Read replica and then manually push the Master binlog information to the offsets topic. Injecting manual entry for offsets topic is already documented in Debezium. I’m just guiding you the way to take snapshot from Read replica without GTID.

Requirements:

• Setup master slave replication.
• The slave must have log-slave-updates=ON else connector will fail to read from beginning onwards.
• Debezium connector should be able to …

The schedule of the preFOSDEM Day is now available !

We had a lot of proposals to deal with. Also this is a MySQL event where we, the MySQL Team has the possibility to show to you, our Community, all what we have working on to improve MySQL but also new stuff. We also invite some of our friends from the MySQL Community to talk about their experience.

I think we did a good selection and propose you new content. We are extremely happy to have Saverio Miroddi from TicketSolve talking about MySQL 8.0, Uber talking about InnoDB Cluster, and Facebook about Binlog.

As you can see, we will have 2 rooms, where one will be dedicated mostly to SQL and Optimizer topics but also tutorials.

You can also see that this year we also want to put some spot lights to MySQL NDB Cluster. You will see what is it, how is it used and what’s new. We will also have 2 community speakers sharing their MySQL NDB knowledge: Giuseppe Maxia, …

MySQL auto-positioning is an integral part of replication with GTID, but it’s neither required nor guaranteed to work. It’s possible to enable GTIDs but disable auto-positioning, and it’s possible that one MySQL instance cannot auto-position on another even when GTIDs are used. The former (GTID on but auto-pos off) is an issue for another time. The latter is the topic of this post: when MySQL GTID auto-positioning fails—and how to fix it.

MySQL auto-positioning is an integral part of replication with GTID, but it’s neither required nor guaranteed to work. It’s possible to enable GTIDs but disable auto-positioning, and it’s possible that one MySQL instance cannot auto-position on another even when GTIDs are used. The former (GTID on but auto-pos off) is an issue for another time. The latter is the topic of this post: when MySQL GTID auto-positioning fails—and how to fix it.