How to MySQL Replication setup, Master GTID & SSL Encryption
Kedar
Setting up replication in MySQL is a common DBA task. The replication could be traditional binary log replication or based on GTID replication. This blog is a work log and…
Install exact version of Percona Server for MySQL on CentOS
This blog post serves as a work-log detailing the process of uninstalling and installing a specific version of Percona MySQL Server on CentOS. The post includes instructions for installation using…
MySQL Slow query log export and download in RDS
A friend needed to analyze slow queries and for that he decides to use pt-query-digest tool. Though he got stuck at exporting slow queries from slow logs in RDS for…
How to fix 1030 Unknown generic error from engine in MySQL
In this blog, I will share the steps I took to debug an error ‘ERROR 1030 (HY000): Got error 168 – ‘Unknown (generic) error from engine’ from storage engine’ while…
MySQL 8 – timestamp cannot be null and explicit_defaults_for_timestamp
A friend’s application started failing with MySQL causing error about timestamp columns and it needs urgent fixing from the database side. A timestamp column was not accepting the null values…
Restore single MySQL table (ibd) from Xtrabackup (video demo)
In this blog we will create MySQL backup and then restore single table from Percona Xtrabackup without doing full restore. This post is basically a work-log in response to a…