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Monitoring your 5.7 InnoDB cluster status

Recently, we worked with a customer seeking assistance in monitoring their MySQL 5.7 InnoDB cluster. Following a ...

MySQL

MySQL 5.7 Multi-threads replication operation tips

With support of multi-threads replication starting from MySQL 5.7, the operations on slave are slightly different from ...

MySQL

MySQL high availability with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator

Introduction In this post we will explore one approach to MySQL high availability with HAProxy, Consul and ...

MySQL

MySQL plugin for Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control

This is the same plugin that Alex Gorvachev created back in the day. I've simply modified it to be compatible with both ...

MySQL

MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

Restoring a MySQL slave by manually taking a backup and then copying the file over the network can be an incredibly ...

MySQL

Setting up MySQL encrypted replication on MySQL 5.7 with GTID

In this blog post, I'll walk you through setting up encrypted replication on MySQL 5.7 with GTID enabled. I will walk ...

MySQL

MySQL log rotation

Overview I find far too often that MySQL error and slow query logs are unaccounted for. Setting up log rotation helps ...

MySQL

ProxySQL behind a load balancer in Google Cloud

Introduction In this article we will explore one approach for deploying ProxySQL behind a load balancer in Google ...

MySQL

Rotating your ProxySQL log files

Recently I received several questions about rotating log files for ProxySQL, so I decided to draft it up as a blog ...

MySQL

RDS provisioning: A comparision between Ansible and Terraform

I recently had to compare these two configuration managers to provision MySQL environments in RDS. I had previous ...

MySQL

Log buffer #551: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

MySQL

Backing up your MySQL instance physically with Docker

In a previous post, I had mentioned that I was doing a bit of digging into Docker in order to get a better grasp of the ...

MySQL

Log buffer #548: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers blog posts from Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

MySQL

The case against auto increment in MySQL

Introduction In my travels to visit many customers over the last few years, I often see my customers creating many or ...

MySQL

Authenticating Vault against LDAP for accessing MySQL through ProxySQL

Earlier this year, I was presented with the challenge of streamlining user access to MySQL, allowing users self-serve ...

MySQL

Log buffer #561: A carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle, and MySQL.

MySQL

Gathering GoldenGate deployment status

The objective of this post is to demonstrate how to gather existing GoldenGate deployment status. The rationale is to ...

MySQL

Getting started with Orchestrator

Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool. In this blog post, we will cover the first ...

MySQL

Log buffer #555: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

MySQL

Authenticating MySQL 8.0 (Enterprise) against active directory

Recently our team was tasked to implement MySQL 8.0 in production for a client. While MySQL 8.0 is looking very ...

MySQL

Log buffer #556: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

MySQL

HAProxy MySQL lag awareness via systemd

Background In one of the projects I have been working on, one requirement was the ability to stop traffic from reaching ...

MySQL

Graceful master switchover with ProxySQL and Orchestrator

Introduction One of the things I like about Continuent Tungsten is how Tungsten Connector can hold traffic while a ...

MySQL

How to restore SSISDB to another server and migrate the SSIS catalog

It is easy to get this one wrong. SSISDB is just a database, after all, and I've seen a number of instances where it ...

MySQL

Debugging MySQL on Docker

Problem Statement In a recent post, my colleague and teammate Peter Sylvester explained how we could customize MySQL's ...

MySQL

How to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD

This blog will go into how to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD using the systemctl command. With ...

MySQL

Choosing best index for your MongoDB query

Introduction Indexing plays a quintessential role in database query performance and MongoDB is no exception. Choosing ...

MySQL

Log buffer #559: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

MySQL

Is slave_exec_mode idempotent actually idempotent?

Background Co-Author: Rafael Alvarez When you look up the word idempotence in wikipedia you get the following ...

MySQL

How to immediately kill ALL processes for a Unix user

Context On occasion I have found it necessary to immediately kill all processes for a particular user on a Linux or ...

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Monitoring your 5.7 InnoDB cluster status

MySQL 5.7 Multi-threads replication operation tips

MySQL high availability with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator

MySQL plugin for Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control

MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

Setting up MySQL encrypted replication on MySQL 5.7 with GTID

MySQL log rotation

ProxySQL behind a load balancer in Google Cloud

Rotating your ProxySQL log files

RDS provisioning: A comparision between Ansible and Terraform

Log buffer #551: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Backing up your MySQL instance physically with Docker

Log buffer #548: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

The case against auto increment in MySQL

Authenticating Vault against LDAP for accessing MySQL through ProxySQL

Log buffer #561: A carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Gathering GoldenGate deployment status

Getting started with Orchestrator

Log buffer #555: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Authenticating MySQL 8.0 (Enterprise) against active directory

Log buffer #556: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

HAProxy MySQL lag awareness via systemd

Graceful master switchover with ProxySQL and Orchestrator

How to restore SSISDB to another server and migrate the SSIS catalog

Debugging MySQL on Docker

How to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD

Choosing best index for your MongoDB query

Log buffer #559: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

Is slave_exec_mode idempotent actually idempotent?

How to immediately kill ALL processes for a Unix user

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