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How to Protect your MySQL or MariaDB Database From SQL Injection: Part Two
In the first part of this blog we described how ProxySQL can be used to block incoming queries that were deemed dangerous. As you saw in that blog, achieving this is very easy. This is not a full...
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How to Protect Your MySQL & MariaDB Database Against Cyberattacks When on a...
It is sometimes inevitable to run MySQL database servers on a public or exposed network. This is a common setup in a shared hosting environment, where a server is configured with multiple services and...
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Using MariaDB Flashback on a MySQL Server
MariaDB has introduced a very cool feature called Flashback. Flashback is a feature that will allow instances, databases or tables to be rolled back to an old snapshot. Traditionally, to perform a...
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Setting Up a Geo-Distributed Database Cluster Using MySQL Replication
A single point of failure (SPOF) is a common reason why organizations are working towards distributing the presence of their database environments to another location geographically. It's part of the...
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How to Fix a Lock Wait Timeout Exceeded Error in MySQL
One of the most popular InnoDB's errors is InnoDB lock wait timeout exceeded, for example:SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1205 Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transactionThe above simply...
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How to Install and Configure MaxScale for MariaDB
There are different reasons for adding a load balancer between your application and your database. If you have high traffic (and you want to balance the traffic between different database nodes) or you...
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How to Replace an Intermediate MySQL or MariaDB Master with a Binlog Server...
Binary logs (binlogs) contain records of all changes to the databases. They are necessary for replication and can also be used to restore data after a backup. A binlog server is basically a binary log...
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Preparing a MySQL or MariaDB Server for Production - Part One
It is extremely important to install and configure a production MySQL server with the necessary packages and tools to smooth-out the operations in the long run. We have seen many cases where...
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Preparing a MySQL or MariaDB Server for Production - Part Two
In the previous blog, we have covered some tips and tricks to prepare a MySQL server for production usage from a system administrator perspective. This blog post is the continuation... Use a Database...
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Comparing Amazon RDS Point-in-Time Recovery to ClusterControl
The Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) is a fully-managed database service which can support multiple database engines. Among those supported are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB....
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Multi-Cloud Full Database Cluster Failover Options for MariaDB Cluster
With high availability being paramount in today’s business reality, one of the most common scenarios for users to deal with is how to ensure that the database will always be available for the...
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MariaDB Cluster Offline Installation for CentOS
Most of the installation steps available on the Internet cover the standard online installation, presuming the database hosts are having an active internet connection to the package repositories and...
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Multi-Cloud Deployment for MariaDB Replication Using WireGuard
In this blog post, we are going to look into how to deploy a MariaDB replication setup in a multi-cloud environment. Suppose our primary application is located at AWS, it's the best idea to set up AWS...
View ArticleWhat’s New in MariaDB Server 10.5?
MariaDB Server 10.5 is a fresh, new, and stable version from MariaDB that was released on June, 24th 2020. Let’s take a look at the features that it will bring us.More Granular PrivilegesWith MariaDB...
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What is MariaDB ColumnStore?
In general, databases store data in row format and use SQL as query language to access it, but this storage method is not always the best in terms of performance, it depends on the workload itself. If...
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An Overview of the New DBaaS from MariaDB - SkySQL
MariaDB has recently launched its new DBaaS offering, SkySQL. It might be a surprise to some, but this has been an anticipated move from MariaDB as they have been actively pushing state of the art...
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How to Deploy a MariaDB Cluster for High Availability
MariaDB Cluster is a Multi Master replication system built from MariaDB Server, MySQL wsrep patch and Galera wsrep provider. Galera is based on synchronous (or ‘virtually synchronous’) replication...
View ArticleWhat Are MariaDB Temporal Tables?
Starting from 10.3.4, MariaDB comes with temporal tables. It is still quite an uncommon feature and we would like to discuss a bit what those tables are and what they can be useful for.First of all, in...
View ArticleUsing the Aria Storage Engine with MariaDB Server
MariaDB Server is one of the most popular open-source database servers. It was created by the original developers of MySQL and it became popular for being fast, scalable, and robust. MariaDB has a rich...
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Introduction to MaxScale Administration Using maxctrl for MariaDB Cluster
MariaDB Cluster consists of MariaDB Server with Galera Cluster and MariaDB MaxScale. As a multi-master replication solution, any MariaDB Server with Galera Cluster can operate as a primary server. This...
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