Starting in version 8.0.14, MySQL server can encrypt all new binary and relay log files on disk. In order to do so, you just need to enable the new binlog_encryption option (and also ensure that you have a keyring).…
MySQL 8.0.14 Replication Enhancements
MySQL 8.0.14 is out and it contains some new and very interesting replication enhancements. As always, we are very pleased to share with you the details about the exciting new features in this release.
This blog post will provide you a summary of the features and subsequent blog posts will dive into the mechanics and details of each one.…
MySQL Cluster Manager 1.4.7 released!
Overview
MCM 1.4.7 continues to improve MySQL Cluster Manager by adding some sought after features – and some important bugfixes.
The 1.4.7 release bundles MySQL Cluster 7.6.8.…
Temporary tables are now allowed in transactions when GTIDs are enabled
There has been a recurring request from our users to remove a limit when using global transaction identifiers (GTIDs) and temporary tables together. The limit is that temporary tables cannot be created and dropped inside a transaction when GTIDs are turned on.…
Extending replication instrumentation: account for memory used in XCom
Version 8.0.12 added many great new features to MySQL. One of the new features included is the memory instrumentation of the XCom cache, which allows users to view and monitor the memory utilization of the cache by querying Performance Schema (PS).…
Extending replication instrumentation: an insight on transaction retries
MySQL 8.0.13 improves replication lag monitoring by extending the instrumentation for transaction transient errors. These temporary errors, which include lock timeouts caused by client transactions executing concurrently as the slave is replicating, do not stop the applier thread: instead, they cause a transaction to retry.…
Group Replication: coping with unreliable failure detection
Failure detection is a cornerstone of distributed systems as it determines which components are working properly or not, allowing it to tackle both network and host instabilities and failures. Like many other distributed systems, Group Replication (GR) requires a majority of correctly operating group members to work properly.…
On-demand primary election
Having a server acting as a primary with multiple secondaries is the most common setup when using Group Replication. Until now though, there was no way to change the current primary member while the group was running without causing some sort of disruption.…
Setting up MySQL Group Replication with MySQL Docker images
MySQL Group Replication (GR) is a MySQL Server plugin that enables you to create elastic, highly-available, fault-tolerant replication topologies. Groups can operate in a
single-primary mode with automatic primary election, where only one server accepts updates at a time. Alternatively, groups can be deployed in multi-primary mode, where all servers can accept updates, even if they are issued concurrently.…
Protecting your data – Part II: Preventing unwanted data changes on Group Replication members by asynchronous replication channels
Further to our earlier blog post about Fail-safe enhancements to Group Replication, where we discussed enhancements against data modification in members which are not ONLINE, we now present here additional changes to protect data from being accidentally modified by asynchronous replication channels.…