Databases

MySQL configuration file created in /usr/my.cnf

As part of uncovering a new security improvement in MySQL 5.6 with the default installation being secured with a unique root MySQL password, the MySQL provided rpm’s installed the MySQL configuration file in /usr.

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DP#4 The importance of using sql_mode

What if the data you retrieved from the database did not match the data the application claimed to had successfully stored? How comfortable would your organization feel about your skills and the products that are being used to store important information if data integrity was not guaranteed?

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Unexplained (trivial) MySQL behavior

The -N or –skip-column-names is a convenient option with the mysql client to skip the header line of output. However I found when viewing the output via the terminal, some interesting and unexplained output.

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Improved Security with MySQL 5.6

Installed on a clean CentOS 6.4 AWS instance. sudo su - cd /tmp wget http://cdn.mysql.com/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/MySQL-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tar tar xvf MySQL-5.6.13-1.el6.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tar yum install -y libaio perl rpm -i MySQL*.rpm The following output is the sign that security is being considered with new MySQL versions.

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MySQL Presentations to the Colombia Oracle Users Group

My slides for presentations on MySQL Backup and Recovery Essentials and Understanding and using MySQL in the Cloud from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) event in Medellín‎ Colombia are now available.

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MySQL Proxy and microseconds

By default the included Lua within MySQL proxy (0.8.3) does not include socket, necessary for getting microsecond granularity. To setup you have to install Lua and socket on the OS first:

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Announcing the MySQL Plugin for New Relic

Many application developers would know of New Relic . A SaaS performance and monitoring tool targeted towards your web application monitoring including PHP, Ruby, Java, .Net, Python and Node. With the release today (June 19, 2013) of the New Relic Platform , custom monitoring of data stores including MySQL are now possible.

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Percona Ireland??

Anybody else noticed that Percona appears to not be a US entity any more? I observed it today. $ sudo /usr/bin/innobackupex ... InnoDB Backup Utility v1.5.1-xtrabackup; Copyright 2003, 2009 Innobase Oy and Percona Ireland Ltd 2009-2012.

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Percona Live Conference Recommendations

While many attendees are repeat offenders, if 2013 is your first MySQL conference and you are relatively new with MySQL (say < 2 years experience), it can be daunting to determine which of the 8 or more concurrent sessions you should attend during the conference.

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When is the error log filename not the right filename

When evaluating a MySQL system one of the first things to look at is the MySQL error log. This is defined by the log[_-]error variable in the MySQL Configuration file. Generally found like:

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The MySQL symlink trap

Many users of MySQL install and use the standard directories for MySQL data and binary logs. Generally this is /var/lib/mysql. As your system grows and you need more disk space on the general OS partition that commonly holds /tmp, /usr and often /home, you create a dedicated partition, for example /mysql.

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What OS do you use for MySQL?

In looking at operating systems in use for last year I found a very high concentration of RedHat/CentOS 5, and Ubuntu LTS operating systems. I would like to get a better picture of what is really used for MySQL production systems.

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Poor programming practices

When will it stop. These amateur programmers that simply cut/paste code really affect those good programmers in the ecosystem trying to make a decent living. I was reviewing a developed (but incomplete) PHP/MySQL system using a common framework (which in itself is irrelevant for this post).

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Upgrading to MySQL 5.5 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Ubuntu does not provide an apt-get repository package for MySQL 5.5 on this older OS, however this is still a widely used long term support version. The following steps will upgrade an existing MySQL 5.

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