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FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.9.3 of its popular FromDual Ops Center focmm, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MariaDB and MySQL.

The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) helps DBA's and System Administrators to better manage their MariaDB and MySQL database farms. Ops Center makes DBA and Admins life easier!

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.1.0 of its popular Database Performance Monitor for MariaDB, MySQL and Galera Cluster fpmmm.

The FromDual Performance Monitor for MariaDB and MySQL (fpmmm) enables DBAs and System Administrators to monitor what is going on inside their MariaDB and MySQL databases and on their machines where the databases reside.

Up to version 5.5 MariaDB and MySQL can be considered as "the same" databases. The official wording at those times was "drop-in-replacement". But now we are a few years later and times and features changed. Also the official wording has slightly changed to just "compatible".
FromDual recommends that you consider MariaDB 10.3 and MySQL 8.0 as completely different database products (with some common roots) nowadays. Thus you should work and act accordingly.

Since version 2.1.0 the FromDual Recovery Manager (rman) for MariaDB and MySQL has also a progress indicator for the restore of logical backups made with mysqldump. This feature was implemented because of the numerous requests of FromDual rman users who were not happy with the default mysql behavior.

You can check your current rman version as follows:

# ./bin/rman --version
2.2.1

As with all FromDual tools you get a command overview with examples with the --help option:

Die Sommerferien sind vorbei. Mit neuem Elan in den Herbst! Zeit für eine Weiterbildung?

Vom 19. bis 20. September führt FromDual wieder die Galera Cluster Schulung Galera Cluster für MySQL und MariaDB in Berlin durch. Siehe auch unsere weiteren Schulungstermine.

Contents

• Introduction
• Character Sets
• Steps to convert Character Set to utf8mb4
  • Analyzing the Server
  • Analyzing the Application and the Clients
  • Preparation of the Server Settings and the Application
  • Convert Tables to utf8mb4

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.9.2 of its popular FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL focmm.

The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) helps DBA's and System Administrators to manage MariaDB and MySQL database farms. Ops Center makes DBA and Admins life easier!

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.1 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.2.0 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).

Sommerferien-Zeit – für all die Daheimgebliebenen dürfte es jetzt hoffentlich etwas ruhiger zu und her gehen. Zeit für eine Weiterbildung? Es bleibt nicht mehr viel Zeit, das Jahres-Schulungs-Budget aufzubrauchen!

Vom 19. bis 23. August führt FromDual wieder einmal die Schulung MariaDB und MySQL für Fortgeschrittene in Köln durch. Siehe auch unsere Schulungstermine.

See also our former articles:

• Do not underestimate performance impacts of swapping on NUMA database systems
• MariaDB and MySQL swap analysis

When we do analysis of MariaDB Database servers we also check the memory (RAM and Swap) available:

The General Query Log in MariaDB is a Log (file or table) that logs every statement sent from the Application to the MariaDB Database Server from the Connect Command to the Quit Command. A simple example you can find here:

The MySQL sys Schema is a cool thing and was mostly developed by Mark Leith and Jesper Wisborg Krogh from Oracle/MySQL.

It is Saturday night at 23:19. Time to go to bed after a hard migration day. Just a last clean-up query before finishing: Tap tap tap. Enter! - Oops!

SQL> UPDATE prospect_lists_prospects SET prospect_list_id = '73ae6cca-7b34-c4a3-5500-5d0e2674dbb6';
Query OK, 4686 rows affected (0.21 sec)
Rows matched: 5666  Changed: 4686  Warnings: 0

A verification query to make sure I am in the mess:

If your MariaDB or MySQL database system is swapping it can have a significant impact on your database query performance! Further it can also slow down your database shutdown and thus influence the whole reboot of your machine. This is especially painful if you have only short maintenance windows or if you do not want to spend the whole night with operation tasks.

Some applications have the bad behaviour to CREATE or DROP tables while our FromDual Backup Manager (bman) backup is running.

This leads to the following bman error message:

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.9.1 of its popular FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL focmm.

The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) helps DBA's and System Administrators to manage MariaDB and MySQL database farms. Ops Center makes DBA and Admins life easier!

Caution: We have introduced an evil bug which prohibits installation of focmm. Sorry! Somehow it did pass our QA. To fix this bug update file lib/Upgrade.inc on Line 1965 as follows:

- $sql = sprintf("REPLACE INTO `focmm_configuration` (`key`, `value`) VALUES ('%s', '%s'), ('%s', '%s'), ('%s', '%s')"
+ $sql = sprintf("REPLACE INTO `focmm_configuration` (`key`, `value`) VALUES ('%s', '%s'), ('%s', '%s')"

In the meanwhile we prepare a new release.

Last week at the MariaDB/MySQL Developer Training we had one participant asking some tricky questions I did not know the answer by heart.

Also MariaDB documentation was not too verbose (here and here).

So time to do some experiments:

A while ago somebody on Google Groups asked for the Uptime of a Galera Cluster. The answer is easy... Wait, no! Not so easy... The uptime of a Galera Node is easy (or not?). But Uptime of the whole Galera Cluster?

My answer then was: "Grep the error log." My answer now is still: "Grep the error log." But slightly different:

We had the problem today that a MySQL Galera Cluster node with the multi-tenancy pattern caused a lot of system time (sy 75%, load average about 30 (you really must read this article by Brendan Gregg, it is w

We see at various customers the request for consolidating their MariaDB and MySQL infrastructure. The advantage of such a measure is clear in the first step: Saving costs! And this request comes typically from managers. But what we unfortunately see rarely is to question this request from the IT engineering perspective. Because it comes, as anything in life, with some "costs". So, saving costs with consolidation on one side comes with "costs" for operation complexity on the other side.

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.0.2 of its popular Database Performance Monitor for MariaDB, MySQL, Galera Cluster and Percona Server fpmmm.

The new FromDual Performance Monitor for MariaDB and MySQL (fpmmm) can be downloaded from here. How to install and use fpmmm is documented in the fpmmm Installation Guide.

Since January 2019 FromDual tries to contribute actively a little bit against global warming too.

The best for the climate would be to NOT travel to the customer at all! For this cases we have our FromDual remote-DBA services for MariaDB and MySQL.

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.1.0 of its popular Backup and Recovery Manager for MariaDB and MySQL (brman).