Category Archives: install

MySQL 5.7 auto-generated root password

Posted on Wednesday, 13 January 2016 by marceloaltmann

Hi There. You may have noticed something different when you install a fresh copy of MySQL 5.7 either via yum or using binary source. The root password is auto-generated. Ok and where can I find it ? Centos cat /var/log/mysqld.log … Continue reading →


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MySQL & NoSQL – Memcached Plugin

Posted on Friday, 6 February 2015 by marceloaltmann

Many of you have already heard about NoSQL databases and one of the the most used tool is Memcached, where you add a cache layer between the application and database. Since MySQL version 5.6, a new plugin is available to … Continue reading →


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MySQL Fabric – Part 1 – Installing

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2014 by marceloaltmann

MySQL Fabric is a tool included on MySQL Utilities that helps you to manage your MySQL instances. It works by basically adding a new layer between your application and MySQL instances, which can provide an easy way to use sharding … Continue reading →


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MySQL Sandbox

Posted on Tuesday, 20 May 2014 by marceloaltmann

Hi there, today we will learn about an amazing tool that every single MySQL dba must know, I’m talking about MySQL Sandbox. MySQL Sandbox is developed by Giuseppe Maxia (The Data Charmer), it’s a tool that make the installation of MySQL servers … Continue reading →


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Installing latest version of MySQL via yum

Posted on Tuesday, 29 October 2013 by marceloaltmann

Usually when you try to install MySQL via yum, by default, the version that comes with your OS is always an old version (not the latest version available from mysql.com/downloads). In order to have the latest version, you always needed … Continue reading →


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Auditing MySQL With Mcafee Audit Plugin

Posted on Monday, 14 October 2013 by marceloaltmann

Audit MySQL isn’t an easy task by default, you can use some technics like tcpdump, write a parser for general log, use MySQL proxy, or you can use some of audit plugins available out there(Mcafee MySQL Audit Plugin or MySQL … Continue reading →


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MySQL 5.6 Replication with GTID – Global Transaction ID

Posted on Friday, 22 February 2013 by marceloaltmann

Hi guys, Early February Oracle released the new version of MySQL named 5.6, one of the enhancements is the GTID (Global Transaction ID) GTID is an unique identifier which will be added at each transaction, and will be very useful … Continue reading →


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Installing MySQL 5.5 Part 2 – Multiple instances with mysqld_multi

Posted on Wednesday, 11 May 2011 by marceloaltmann

Continuing our  previous post, today we’ll go up several instances of MySQL on the same server, very common practice today, instead of creating a single instance in100% of the resources of the server splits the load of QPS (queries per seconds) between multiple instances. The groups will look for mysqld_multi [mysqldN] within our my.cnf configuration file, where N is an integer that will be used later to refer to what server we’ll see the STOP or START REPORT … Continue reading →


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Installing MySQL 5.5 Part 1 – A single instance

Posted on Wednesday, 20 April 2011 by marceloaltmann

Today I will teach you how to install a MySQL server with ease. With only a single instance in the second part of this article, I will teach installing multiple instances of MySQL and control them through the mysqld_multi. For … Continue reading →


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Recover MySQL root password

Posted on Monday, 18 April 2011 by marceloaltmann

If you have lost the MySQL root password, or just don’t remember it, don’t worry, follow the step by step for you to retrieve it Stop the MySQL service if it is running “/etc/init.d/mysql stop” Up the Server “skiping” the … Continue reading →


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