Posts by Singer Wang
Day 1 is the fist official day of the Percona Live MySQL Conference; the day began with two mini-keynotes by Peter Zaitev and Baron Schwarz of Percona talking about the history of MySQL and how he got started in the open source movement respectively. Very nostalgic and I’m sure it brought a tear to a few people’s eyes.
Day 0 of the MySQL Conference is a day unlike any other day. It is, in fact, tutorial day. While regular days of the Percona Live MySQL Conference feature 50 minute sessions, usually split into 40 minute talk and a 5-10 minute question period, tutorials are 3 hour long sessions (with a generous 10 minute break in the middle for those that wish to go to the WC) that provide an in-depth dive into some aspect of MySQL.
In about 4 hours, at 2PM PDT, I’ll be giving my talk “Security Around MySQL” at Ballroom A at the Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012. It’s a summary and guide of practical and easy-to-implement security tips around MySQL and the application. These tips were all gleamed from my years at start-ups (some which I worked at and some which I founded) and from experience at Pythian.
While trying to move a schema from one MySQL server to another, I encountered a very odd issue. The schema to be moved contained both MyISAM and InnoDB tables, so the only option I had was to dump the schema using mysqldump on the source server and import it on the destination server. I did some digging and found that the problem was that the MyISAM engine silently changed the table definition without any indications. Here are some solutions.
I’ve seen many a good DBA make the master of starting slaves from the position in the master.info file, most recently this week, that I want to bring it to everyone’s attention.
I recently granted ALTER access in MySQL so a user could run the ALTER TABLE command . However after I granted the necessary privileges, the user was still not able to perform the tasks needed. Then I realized what the issue was and how to fix it.
Having been a free software user and supporter for many years, I am disheartened by some of the comments made in the MySQL/Oracle debate regarding the GNU Public License (GPL) and other licenses. There is much throwing around of misconceptions and untruths about licenses and their differences. In this blog, I shall take on some of the bigger misconceptions.
When MySQL is first installed on Ubuntu/Debian, this problem never occurs because the package as part of the post installation process randomly creates a password for the debian-sys-maint user, creates the user in MySQL (during the initial installation the root MySQL user has no password so is able to login as root), and creates the /etc/mysql/debian-my.cnf file on the system. So what’s the solution? Well, there are ways to deal with it.
Recently while we were building a slave with a newer version of MySQL 5.1 from an InnoDB Hot backup an error occurred The problem is, in MySQL 5.1, it is possible to log the slow query log and general log to tables in the mysql schema. These tables are created by default as CSV tables for performance reasons, even if MySQL is set not to log to tables. CSV tables, however, are not copied as part of the InnoDB Hot Backup process, creating this error. Here is the fix to get the slave working
If you are using InnoDB Hot Backup utility and the innobackup.pl wrapper script, be very careful if you are not running backups under the system mysql user. There is a bug which causes InnoDB Hot Backup to sometimes report a successful backup when it actually failed.
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