Understanding Indexes in MySQL: Part Three
This blog post is the third part of the series of blogs about indexes in MySQL. In the second part of the blog post series about MySQL indexes, we covered indexes and storage engines and touched upon some...
Understanding Indexes in MySQL: Part Two
This blog post is the second part of the series of blogs about indexes in MySQL. In the first part of the blog post series about MySQL indexes, we have covered quite many things, including what...
Understanding Indexes in MySQL: Part One
Indexes in MySQL are a very complex beast. We have covered MySQL indexes in the past, but we have never taken a deeper dive into them - we will do that in these series of...
Best Practices in Scaling Databases: Part 1
All of you have heard about scaling - your architecture should be scalable, you should be able to scale up to meet the demand, so on and so forth. What does it mean when we...
Understanding MySQL’s New Heatwave
Data Analytics is important in any company as you can see what happened in the past to be able to make smart decisions or even predict future actions using the existing data. Analyze a huge...
New User and LDAP Management in ClusterControl 1.8.2
After upgrading to ClusterControl 1.8.2, you should get the following notification banner: What's up with that? It is a depreciation notice of the current user management system in favor of the new user management system...
Automate Database Schema Object Check
Monitoring your database schema changes in MySQL/MariaDB provides a huge help as it saves time analyzing your database growth, table definition changes, data size, index size, or row size. For MySQL/MariaDB, running a query referencing...
MySQL Database Deployment Automation
Automation is in vogue these days. Technology evolves quickly, and more people are contributing to existing available third party automation software platforms. As the season of fast-paced deployments, automation is now necessary and considered as...
Automate Database Configuration Check
Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and being left out until some unwanted events occur to...
Announcing CCX Database as a Service from Severalnines
We at Severalnines are thrilled to announce the release of CCX, our brand new database as a service (DBaaS) offering! It’s a fully managed service built atop the powerful ClusterControl automated operational database management...
Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server
Upgrades are always a hard and time-consuming task. First, you should test your application in a test environment, so, ideally, you will need to clone your current production environment for this. Then, you need to...
Automated Testing of the Upgrade Process for PXC/MariaDB Galera Cluster
Upgrading your database for Galera-based clusters such as Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) or MariaDB Galera Cluster can be challenging, especially for a production-based environment. You cannot afford to lose the state of your high availability...