Join Percona’s Software Engineer (PXC Lead), Krunal Bauskar as he presents Percona XtraDB Cluster 101 on Thursday, December 7, 2017, at 7:00 am PST / 10:00 am EST (UTC-8).

Tags: Percona XtraDB Cluster, MySQL, High Availability, Clustering

Experience Level: Beginner

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a multi-master solution that offers virtual synchronous replication among clustering node. It is based on the Codership Galera replication library. In this session, we will explore some key features of Percona XtraDB Cluster that make it enterprise ready including some recently added 5.7 exclusive features.

This webinar is an introductory and …

This post is a lab experiment learning from migration to the Percona Xtradb Cluster (Galera) and a very unexpected DEADLOCK scenario which took me back to basics. (root@localhost) [test]>insert into…

The post MySQL to Galera Cluster Migration, Deadlock, Back to basics first appeared on Change Is Inevitable.

“MySQL’s JSON data type is great! But how do you index the JSON data?” I was recently presenting at the CakePHP Cakefest Conference and was asked that very question. And I had to admit I had not been able to play, er, experiment with the JSON datatype to that level. Now I have and it is fairly easy.

1. Create a simple table
mysql> desc colors;
+--------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------------------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------------------+
| popular_name | char(10) | YES | | NULL | |
| hue | json | YES | | NULL | |
+--------------+----------+------+-----+---------+-------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

2. Add in some data
INSERT INTO `colors` VALUES ('red','{\"value\": \"f00\"}'),('green','{\"value\": …

Does MySQL need a mentoring program? I get calls, emails, and other requests for trained MySQL DBAs and Developers. Human Resources, managers, team leads, and entrepreneurs have the need but can not find the bodies. It is easy enough to download MySQL, get it running, and use it. But the next steps seem problematic for many. There are programs like MySQL Marinate and Girl Develop It to provide some hands on help for beginners. Autodidacts can find tons of MySQL Books and on line information. But how do we take the beginners and get them to intermediate or beyond?

How do we support these new comers, give them a hand if needed, a shoulder to cry on, or just provide someone who has been there before to bounce ideas around when needed? How do we pull them into social networks to warn them of …

The MySQL Release Notes should be part of any DBA’s regular reading list. The Changes in MySQL 5.6.20 came out last week and there are some interesting goodies.

• MySQL now includes DTrace support on Oracle Linux 6 or higher with UEK kernel.
• A new system variable binlog_impossible_mode controls what happens if the server cannot write to the binary log, for example, due to a file error.
• The mysqlhotcopy utility is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of MySQL

5.6.20 has a slew of bug fixes, functionality changes, and notes.

So why should you be reading the changes on a regular basis? There isa goldmine of information in them. For instance, if you use blobs, consider this: …

THe MySQL APT Repository provides an easy and convenient way to get the latest MySQL software. My test server was need of a refresh so I put on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 and downloaded mysql-apt-config_0.2.1-1ubuntu14.04_all.deb.

sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.2.1-1ubuntu14.04_all.deb
[sudo] password for dstokes:
Selecting previously unselected package mysql-apt-config.
(snip)

You will get a choice to install MySQL 5.6 or the latest 5.7 DMR.

sudo apt-get update Pulls the latest information from the repository for the various packages.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server Installs the server and will start it running. And then a quick sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench to get me where i needed to be.

There is a detailed information at …

MySQL Triggers are changing in 5.7 in a big way. Triggers have been around since 5.0 and have not changed much up to 5.6 but will gain the ability to have multiple triggers on the same event. Previously you had ONE trigger maximum on a BEFORE UPDATE, for example, and now you can have multiple triggers and set their order.

So what is a trigger? Triggers run either BEFORE or AFTER an UPDATE, DELETE, or INSERT is performed. You also get access to the OLD.col_name and NEW.col_name variables for the previous value and the newer value of the column.

So how do you use a trigger? Let say you are updating the price of an inventory item in a product database with a simple UPDATE statement. But you also want to track when the price change and the old price.

The table for products.
…

Foreign Keys are often a mystery to new DBAs in the MySQL world. Hopefully this blog will clear some of this up.

In this example, we will have a table for employee data and a table for the data on offices. First we need the two tables.
CREATE TABLE employee (
-> e_id INT NOT NULL,
-> name CHAR(20),
-> PRIMARY KEY (e_id)
-> );

CREATE TABLE building (
-> office_nbr INT NOT NULL,
-> description CHAR(20),
-> e_id INT NOT NULL,
-> PRIMARY KEY (office_nbr),
-> FOREIGN KEY (e_id)
-> REFERENCES employee (e_id)
-> ON UPDATE CASCADE
-> ON DELETE CASCADE);


Those who do not use Foreign Keys will not be familiar with the last four lines of the building table. The trick is that there are two e_id columns, one in each table. In the employee table …

There was a on Twitter to @MySQL How can I insert “/” into a varchar field please. Since they were polite and used please, I wanted to be helpful.

At first I thought this was the ol’ MySQL string literal problem where you need to have two backslashes to get one backslash in a character field. See String Literals in the MySQL Manual. A lot of people have trouble with the backslash when they first get started with MySQL. From the quote below, you will see that some characters need to be escaped with a backslash. But what about the forward slash?

I remember a previous job were I saved many UNIX file names but I did not remember anything unusual about forward slashed. My mental cache had been flushed of the answer. So I …

“How do I learn PHP, MySQL, GII, CSS, HTML, OOP, and all that quickly, without becoming confused or frustrated but still get to do the cools stuff?” I get this question on a very frequent basis and until last Friday, I had to suggest a number of ways of pulling together all the pieces together. But it still lacked a comprehensive theme and flow. Then last Friday at LonestarPHP, the LonestarPHP organizers teamed with PHPWomen,to provide a foundations track that covered all the above and more. Davey Shafik, Elizabeth Smith, Matt Frost, and Michelle Sanver put together an amazing day of learning with PHPBridge for a crowd of about 40 novices,

The material is under a Creative Commons License and can be used by other events. The idea was borrowed form RailsBridge and …