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FromDual is pleased to announce the release of the new version 1.2.2 of the popular FromDual Ops Center focmm, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MariaDB, MySQL and compatible databases.

The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) helps DBAs and system administrators to better manage their MariaDB and MySQL databases and Galera Cluster farms. Ops Center makes life easier for DBAs and Admins!

The main purpose of the Ops Center is to help you with your daily MariaDB and MySQL operations. More …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.1.0 of its popular MariaDB, Galera Cluster and MySQL multi-instance environment MyEnv.

The new MyEnv can be downloaded here. How to install MyEnv is described in the MyEnv Installation Guide.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the MyEnv please report it to the FromDual bug tracker.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.1 of its popular FromDual Ops Center focmm, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MariaDB, MySQL and compatible databases.

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

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MariaDB and MySQL operation tasks. …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.0 of its popular FromDual Ops Center focmm, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MariaDB, MySQL and compatible databases.

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

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MariaDB and MySQL operation tasks. …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.0.3 of its popular MariaDB, Galera Cluster and MySQL multi-instance environment MyEnv.

The new MyEnv can be downloaded here. How to install MyEnv is described in the MyEnv Installation Guide.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the MyEnv please report it to the FromDual bug tracker.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.1.0 of its popular FromDual Ops Center focmm, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MariaDB, MySQL and compatible databases.

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

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MariaDB, MySQL and compatible databases …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.0.0 of its popular FromDual Ops Center focmm, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MySQL and compatible databases.

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

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MySQL and compatible databases operation tasks. …

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!

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MySQL and MariaDB operation tasks. More information about FromDual Ops Center …

Modern Linux Systems have a mechanism called logrotate to rotate different log files.

The general configuration file is located under /etc/logrotate.conf and specific changes are under /etc/logrotate.d/

By default the logrotate job is started once a day by a O/S cron.daily job: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate

Because the default log rotation configuration does not exactly what I want I have adapted it a bit:

First I need a database user for log rotation:

CREATE USER 'logrotate'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret'; …

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!

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MySQL and MariaDB operation tasks. More information about FromDual Ops Center you can find here.

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The new FromDual Ops …

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!

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MySQL and MariaDB operation tasks. More information about FromDual Ops Center you can find here.

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The new FromDual Ops …

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.

FromDual has the pleasure to announce …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.0.2 of its popular MariaDB, Galera Cluster and MySQL multi-instance environment MyEnv.

The new MyEnv can be downloaded here. How to install MyEnv is described in the MyEnv Installation Guide.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the MyEnv please report it to the FromDual bug tracker.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.0.1 of its popular MariaDB, Galera Cluster and MySQL multi-instance environment MyEnv.

The new MyEnv can be downloaded here. How to install MyEnv is described in the MyEnv Installation Guide.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the MyEnv please report it to the FromDual bug tracker.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 2.0.0 of its popular MySQL, Galera Cluster and MariaDB multi-instance environment MyEnv.

The new MyEnv can be downloaded here. How to install MyEnv is described in the MyEnv Installation Guide.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the MyEnv please report it to the FromDual bug tracker.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to …

If you are already familiar with MySQL and you are challenged to operate a serious MySQL Enterprise infrastructure this training is the right one for you.

Requirements

You are familiar with the MySQL basics and have already some experience with MySQL operations. The SQL language does not look strange to you any more. Further you are familiar with the Linux console and rule the most important UNIX commands.

Audience

• MySQL Enterprise application developer and DevOps
• MySQL and MariaDB database administrators …

There are some pretty sophisticated Load Balancers for Galera Clusters setups out in the market (ProxySQL, MaxScale, HAproxy, …). They have many different exotic features. You can nearly do everything with them. But this comes at the cost of complexity. Non of them is simple any more.

A widely underestimated Load Balancer solution for Galera Cluster setups is the Galera Load Balancer from Codership. It is an simple Load Balancer solution which serves all of our daily needs when it comes to Galera …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.0.1 of the FromDual Nagios and Icinga plugins for MySQL, Galera Cluster and MariaDB.

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The new FromDual Nagios plugins can be downloaded here.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in the FromDual Nagios plugins please report it to our bug tracker.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to [feedback@fromdual.com](mailto:feedback@fromdual.com?Subject=Feedback for Nagios plugins). …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.3 of the FromDual Ops Center for MySQL and MariaDB.

The FromDual Ops Center for MySQL and MariaDB (focmm) is an application for DBA’s and system administrators to manage MySQL and MariaDB database farms.

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MySQL and MariaDB operation tasks.

More information about FromDual Ops Center you can find here.

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The new FromDual Ops Center can be downloaded here.

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This article covers the installation of MyEnv, the MySQL and MariaDB environment of FromDual.

To learn more about what MyEnv is go here.

Table of Contents

• MyEnv Requirements
  • CentOS and RHEL
  • Ubuntu and Debian
  • OpenSUSE and SLES
• Preparations for MyEnv
• Download of MyEnv
• Installation of MyEnv
• Downloading and installing database binary tar-ball
  • For MariaDB:
  • For MySQL:
• Configuration of MyEnv
• Put MyEnv under Systemd controll
• Put a database under MyEnv control
• How MyEnv works
• Functionality
• Upgrade MyEnv …

FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm)

The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB, MySQL and Galera Cluster helps you to operate your complex MariaDB/MySQL database set-ups with and easy to use Graphical User Interface (Web-GUI). Master/Slave- and Master/Master-Replication, Galera Cluster and VIP failover, etc. is possible.

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FromDual tools provide valuable additional functionality which facilitate and optimize daily operations of your MySQL databases. Since our last newsletter a lot of things have changed in the FromDual tools.

To the MySQL Environment (MyEnv) numerous improvements and suggestions of our customers were added. The most important changes were introduced to the MySQL Backup Manager (mysql_bman).

With the MySQL Ops Center we meet the wishes of our numerous customers, which desire a graphical user interface for …

The FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL (focmm) is a browser-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) to operate and manage your MariaDB and MySQL database farms (2 - 99 instances) more easily.
If further provides tools to implement your own Database as a Service (DBaaS) infrastructure.

FromDual Ops Center covers the full life-cycle of a database:

• Installation of your database from different Repositories.
• Configuration of your database instance.
• Track configuration changes of your database instance. …

You are already familiar with the MySQL or MariaDB and you are challenged to operate a serious MySQL database. If this is the case this training is the right one for you.

Requirements

You are familiar with the MySQL basics and have already some experience with MySQL or MariaDB operations. The SQL language does not look strange to you any more. Further you are familiar with the Linux console and rule the most important UNIX commands.

Audience

• MySQL application developer
• MySQL and MariaDB database …

Our remote-DBA services are as flexible as our customers are different. We care about your mandates if they are related to MariaDB, MySQL or Galera Cluster. We also can support you in the database surroundings (Linux, Load Balancer, High-Availability). You purchase a 10 hour Service package and you can use it on demand during one year.

How our customers use their FromDual remote-DBA services

Our customers use their FromDual remote-DBA services in many different ways:

• A popular way using our services is to …

Following question came up recently: What happens if you drop or add a partition of an existing already partitioned table with ALTER TABLE? Will it be copied or will just the single partition be dropped and added? How are the index(es) rebuild after such a drop/add?

In the MySQL documentation were not to many details mentioned:

ALTER TABLE … ADD PARTITION creates no temporary table except for MySQL Cluster.
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ADD or DROP operations for RANGE or LIST partitions are immediate operations or …

The following maintenance jobs are typically run against a MySQL database:

• Backup
• Clean-up binary logs
• Optimize tables
• Purge query cache
• Rotate binary logs

Backup

A backup is not a typical maintenance job. But it behaves more or less like one. The backup should be done regularly depending on the restore/PITR (Point in Time Recovery) requirements.

Make sure, that in the backup all the necessary files (data files, transaction log files, configuration files and binary log files) are included. To prove that …