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802.3ad bond interface have show high RX dropped packets

I found a god explanation for dropped packages on bonded interfaces: [ 1 ]

This is related to the bonding mode and _not_ a bug. The bonding module will drop duplicate frames received on inactive ports, which is normal behaviour. Overall the packets should be getting into the machine without problems since they are received on the active slave. To confirm this do the following

1) Check dropped packets from all interfaces. So if eth0/eth1 are …

Repositories from your favourite Linux distribution and from your favourite database software vendor get regular package updates. If you do periodic system upgrades (for example every 2 weeks as we do) you get the newest packages of a release series.
Unfortunately recently the software vendors started not only to fix bugs in new releases but also to introduce new features. And when you fix bugs or introduce new stuff new bugs might appear.
To avoid being hit unexpectedly by new bugs you do not want to …

When you are for too long in business you think you know already everything and you are getting lazy. This happened to me again a few weeks ago. A customer asked me about the SQL Error Log Plugin. First I though he was talking about the MariaDB Error Log or the General Query Log. But then I have learned that there is something “new” I did not know yet…

MariaDB introduced in 5.5.22 (March 2012) a new plugin called the SQL Error Log Plugin. This Plugin collects all the errors which were …

With the FromDual Ops Center file transfer tool you can easily upload files from your personal computer to the focmm machine, download files from the focmm machine to your personal computer or transfer files from the focmm machine to any of your database machines or between them. This feature is made for importing, exporting or transferring data from, to or between your different database instances. For example to copy a production schema to a testing database instance.

For backup and restore of a database …

One of the tools of FromDual Ops Center for MariaDB and MySQL is the centralized crontab for all of your database machines. Instead of maintaining various different crontabs on different machines you can manage them now in one place within the Ops Center.

Under the Tools menu on the left you find Crontab. Here you get a first overview of crontab jobs available:

• The first column shows if the crontab job is active or not.
• The second column indicates the O/S user the crontab job should run as.
• Then we have …

We have found a strong correlation between VMware snapshots and Veeam backups and those dropped packets.

In a recent customer engagement we experienced a lot of corrupted (normal) indexes and also corrupted full-text indexes on InnoDB tables in a Galera Cluster (v10.4.13).

In the error log we did not see which table it was but we have only a few log entries every here and there indicating a full-table index is corrupt:

2020-07-08 22:09:03 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: (Duplicate key) writing word node to FTS auxiliary index table.
2020-07-08 22:09:06 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: (Duplicate key) writing word node to FTS auxiliary …

Asking stupid questions and googling for them is fun some times…

Today I was asking myself if one could rise the file limit for a running MariaDB mysqld process online without restarting the database instance?

And I found an answer on serverfault: Set max file limit on a running process:

PID=$(pidof mysqld)

grep -e 'Max open files' -e Limit /proc/${PID}/limits 
Limit                     Soft Limit           Hard Limit           Units     
Max open files            1024                 4096 …

With this new version of fpmmm you probably get a new warning in your fpmmm error log:

INFO: FromDual Performance Monitor for MySQL and MariaDB (fpmmm) (1.2.0) run started.
WARN:     P_S Metadata Lock instrumentation is disabled. (rc=1411)
INFO: FromDual Performance Monitor for MySQL and MariaDB (fpmmm) run finished (rc=0).

In this fpmmm release we start monitoring MariaDB/MySQL Metadata locking problems. For this new functionality the Metadata locking plugin in MariaDB or the Metadata …

Sources:

• RSyslog Documentation
• How to Configure Remote Logging with Rsyslog on Ubuntu 18.04

This notes are intended for Ubuntu 18.04!

Install and Configure Rsyslog Server

dpkg -l | grep rsyslogd
apt-get update && apt-get install rsyslog

systemctl start rsyslog
systemctl enable rsyslog
systemctl status rsyslog

Check rsyslog version (v7 vs. v8!):

rsyslogd -v

General configuration

#
# /etc/rsyslog.conf
#

# provides UDP syslog reception
module(load="imudp")
input(type="imudp" …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.0 of its popular Database Performance Monitor for MariaDB and Galera Cluster fpmmm.

The FromDual Performance Monitor for MariaDB (fpmmm) enables DBAs and System Administrators to monitor and understand what is going on inside their MariaDB database instances and on the machines where the databases reside.

More detailed information you can find in the fpmmm Installation Guide.

Download

The new FromDual Performance Monitor for MariaDB ( …

Trx # 86153878218 exists in both Galera Cluster conflics which are 46 seconds apart (= long running transaction?). Table `rt3`.`Tickets` seems to be involved in both cases. One should investigate also in this query or transaction we cannot see here...

MySQL thread id 6147, OS thread handle 0x7f5af77fe700, query id 5394536 192.168.1.42 node1
*** WAITING FOR THIS LOCK TO BE GRANTED:
RECORD LOCKS space id 67799 page no 2924419 n bits 136 index `PRIMARY` of table `rt3`.`Tickets` trx id 86153787673 …

Very often I see some stupid error messages as a (power-)user. I do not know if this is because of lazy developers or managers not having enough focus on more useful error messages.

If the error messages would be more clear it would help me as a power-user to fix my problems faster and fix it possibly myself instead of asking questions or even open support cases.

That would also safe costs on the support service side if end-users would be enabled to fix their problems themself. If this is what software …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.0.0 of its popular FromDual Ops Center focmm, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MySQL and compatible databases.

The FromDual Ops Center for MySQL and compatible databases (focmm) helps DBA’s and System Administrators to better manage their MySQL and compatible databases farms. Ops Center makes DBA and Admins life easier!

The main task of Ops Center is to support you in your daily MySQL and compatible databases operation tasks. …

cd /var/log
ll -d -Z mysql* mysql/*
mkdir mysql
chown mysql: mysql
semanage fcontext -a -t mysqld_db_t "/var/log/mysql/(/.*)?"
restorecon -Rv /var/log/mysql
ll -d -Z mysql* mysql/*

And Non-standard database set up with SELinux

/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

On StackExchange for Database Administrators I recently have seen a question which attracted my interest.

The question puzzled me a bit because the answer seems too easy. Further the question was not so clear. An all theses factors smell dangerous…

About time - was, is and will be

How can I find out if the database “was” shutdown slowly? This is quite easy: Look into your MySQL Error Log and there you will find a log sequence similar to the following:

2020-03-30T08:03:36.928017Z 0 …

• fpmmm 2.2.1 Release Notes, Release Date: 13 February 2026
• fpmmm 2.2.0 Release Notes, Release Date: 4 September 2025 → see v2.2.1
• fpmmm 2.1.0 Release Notes, Release Date: 5 December 2023
• fpmmm 2.0.0 Release Notes, Release Date: 18 May 2022
• fpmmm 1.2.0 Release Notes, Release Date: 11 June 2020
• fpmmm 1.1.0 Release Notes, Release Date: 17 December 2019
• fpmmm 1.0.2 Release Notes, Release Date: 7 March 2019
• fpmmm 1.0.1 Release Notes, Release Date: 9 February 2017
• fpmmm 1.0.0 Release Notes, Release Date: 2 …

Recently we had a new customer who has had from time to time massive database problems which he did not understand. When we reviewed the MySQL configuration file (my.cnf) we found, that this customer had disabled the InnoDB Deadlock detection (innodb_deadlock_detect).

Because we have advised against doing this so far, but I never stumbled upon this problem in practice, I have investigated a bit more about the MySQL variable innodb_deadlock_detect.

The MySQL documentation tells us the following
[1
]: …

MariaDB/MySQL Stored Language is called SQL/PSM.
There are 4 different types of Stored Language: Stored Procedures, Stored Functions, Triggers and Events.

Stored Procedures

Stored Procedure with a Cursor:

DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE cleanup(IN pData VARCHAR(48))
BEGIN
  DECLARE vId INTEGER;
  DECLARE vNotFound INTEGER;

  DECLARE cCleanUp CURSOR FOR
    SELECT id FROM test WHERE data = pData;

  DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND
    SET vNotFound = 1;
  
  OPEN cCleanUp;
  lGetRecord: LOOP …