MySQL Binlog server with Maxscale

This is the our next blog in Maxscale series, Below is a list of our previous blogs, which provides deep insight for Maxscale and its use cases for different architectures. Scale with Maxscale part – 1 (Intro & Galera Cluster) Scale with Maxscale part – 2 (Administration, Installation & operation) Scale with Maxscale part – …

Jinja2 for better Ansible

Jinja2 is a modern and designer-friendly templating language for Python frameworks. It is fast, reliable and widely used for dynamic file generation based on its parameter. In this blog, I like to share how and where jinja2 template language used in Ansible and how we can create better Ansible playbook. How it works The Jinja …

MySQL Partition Manager (Yahoo!) in a nutshell

Partitioning is a way of splitting the actual data down into separate .ibd files (data compartments) in the file system based on the defined ranges using the partitioning key. It can help us with maintaining the enormous amount of data in different partitions without much hassle. In this blog post, we are going to see how …

Ensure better defaults with InnoDB Dedicated server.

We have seen with most of the consulting projects where the customer might be having a dedicated DB (MySQL) server ,but running with a default configuration, without any optimisation for underlying hardware, "An idle hardware is similar to idle money will give you no returns". Well again if you are from a non-DBA background and you …

Online Schema Change for Tables with Triggers.

In this post, We will learn how to handle online schema change if the table has triggers. In PXC, an alter can be made directly ( TOI ) on tables with less than a 1G ( by default) , but on a 20GB or 200GB table we need some downtime to do ( RSU ). …

Binlog expiry now in seconds (MySQL 8.0)

In this blog we are going to view about a  new feature in latest release MySQL 8.0.1 for MySQL Replication . It is binlog_expire_logs_seconds. Previously we can set the expire logs for binlogs in number of days. By using the new feature (binlog_expire_logs_seconds) we can see set the expire time into number of seconds. The …