Tuesday, March 19, 2024

MySQL Disasters, and how to avoid yours

Organizations are always making improvements for scalability, however disaster preparedness is the poor cousin. This presentation will show you how to easily avoid the most common MySQL disaster situations.
Backup and recovery is critical for business continuity, many websites run the risk of data loss or corruption because existing procedures (if any) are generally flawed. Discussion includes:

  • The essential backup options
  • Why Binary logging for point in time recovery is important
  • How replication changes things
  • Recovery complexities

Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule:

MySQL Backup & Recovery Essentials

A hardware, software or human failure can occur at any time. Are you prepared?
Many organizations take a risk of serious data loss and system downtime with inadequate procedures in place to support a disaster recovery. This presentation covers the essentials of MySQL backup and recovery options, identifying the necessary tools for an effective strategy to support data resilience and business continuity for your organization. MySQL has no one single unbreakable backup solution, so it is important to understand the impact of MySQL replication, storage engines, configuration options for durability, hardware configuration and the impact on locking and uptime for the various hot/warm/cold options available.

Short Url: http://j.mp/EM-BandR
Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule: RMOUG QEW – May 2012- Denver, Colorado

LAMP Performance Optimizations – Volume 1

Get a detailed introduction to the very broad topic of end-to-end performance optimization in web applications based on LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Short Url: http://j.mp/EM-LAMP-opt
Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule:

MySQL Idiosyncrasies That Bite

While MySQL is a popular and widely used database product, there are some default features and settings which can be foreign in comparison with other commercial RDBMS products such as Oracle. In this discussion, Ronald Bradford will discuss some of the MySQL defaults that are not what you may expect. These include understanding the concept of storage engines, and the default non-transactional state, how silent data truncations occur which affect your data, ideal practices for date management, and the MySQL transaction isolation options. These are all critical to clearly understand and implement correctly for data integrity and consistency. He will cover in-depth topics including SQL_MODE and the recommended best practices for default settings, the ideal user permissions and privileges including not what to do, and also the best practices for character sets and collations to ensure your UTF8 is stored and retrieved correctly.

Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule:
Percona Live – Santa Clara, April 2012
New York MySQL Meetup, April 2011, New York

Explaining the MySQL EXPLAIN

Determining the Query Execution Plan (QEP) of an SQL statement is the primary analysis tool for DBAs. Understanding how to interpret the information from the EXPLAIN command and what additional commands and tools exist to add supplementary information are essential skills that will be used daily in production operations.

The MySQL EXPLAIN QEP is significantly different from an Oracle QEP and Oracle DBAs need to understand and learn the most appropriate way to understand and navigate this information to effective performance tune a running MySQL environment.

In this presentation we will cover the following:

Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule:

MySQL Security Essentials

Default MySQL security sucks. There is no super user privilege protection, or tight filesystem security. What are the essentials for any initial MySQL installation? What is the minimum an Oracle DBA should understand and undertake for a neglected MySQL system? The MySQL privilege system provides several levels of data protection when implemented correctly, however this is rarely used. The most common user permission implementation creates several security and auditing risks? What are your MySQL user permissions, and how can developers exploit them? There are ways to secure communications within a MySQL topology, approaches to managing exposed public facing data collection via the BLACKHOLE storage engine, auditing plugin interfaces, and external authentication capabilities with PAM and LDAP for example.

This presentation provides an overview and checklist of the essentials needed to improve MySQL security and provide an understanding of managing various levels of risk.

Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule: RMOUG Training Days 2012 February 2012 Denver, Colorado. Insight Out DB Showcase. October 2011 Tokyo, Japan

Better MySQL Security and Administration

With the recent cyber attacks and breaches with data from large organizations including Sony, is your MySQL data safe? What are the best practices for securing and administering your MySQL environment? In this presentation we will cover the essential steps for better MySQL security. We will also cover the different installation and administration tasks necessary to ensure your data is managed.

Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule: Insight Out DB Showcase. October 2011 Tokyo, Japan

Successful Scalability Principles – Part 1

Learn how the experts would design and architect a MySQL system to able to scale seamlessly. This presentation covers the necessary principles including:

  • System Architecture
  • Data Availability
  • Best Practices
  • Being proactive
  • Preparing for a disaster
  • Planning for success

Presenter: Ronald Bradford

You can view the video from SF MySQL Meetup – September 2010. View Meeting details and comments

Reasons to use MySQL 5.5

There are a number of significant new features in MySQL 5.5 including semi-synchronous replication, SIGNAL and RESIGNAL, the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, additional STATUS variables, new partitioning options, different default storage engine, better UTF8 support and removal of deprecated functions just to list key considerations.

However some of the performance improvements are worth the investment of time. For a high concurrency InnoDB environment one new configuration alone can provide a 50% improvement in performance. Other settings can help in the reduction of downward spikes in performance due to internal InnoDB disk management. Some new configuration settings are off by default. See the actual benefits of these new features and what you should be using to maximize your database performance.

Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule: Effective MySQL Meetup York. June 2011 New York

Improving Performance with Better Indexes

Learn how to use one simple advanced technique to make better MySQL indexes and improve your queries by 500% or more. Even with a highly indexed schema significant improvements in performance can be achieved by creating better indexes.

This presentation introduces the approach for correct identification and verification of problem SQL statements and then describes the means of identifying index choices for optimization. Then discussed is not only how to apply indexes to improve query performance, but how to apply better indexes and provide even greater performance gains.

This presentation includes:

  • 6 steps to successful SQL review
  • Effective examples of capture SQL via application logging and TCP/IP analysis
  • All the commands necessary to identify why and how to create indexes
  • How the number of table rows and different storage engines can effect query performance
  • How to create an iterative verification process

Presenter: Ronald Bradford
Schedule: