Category Archives: Databases

A NoSQL database provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data that is modeled in means other than the tabular relations used in relational databases.
A relational database management system is a database management system based on the relational model of data.

AWS RDS: “SQLSTATE[22001] – Data too long for column” using MariaDB 10.2

8 August 2019
 

 We have a PHP-application with the AWS RDS MariaDB as a backend. On the previously used 10.0 version all was good, but right after we upgraded to the MariaDB 10.2 – got errors during tests: PDOException: SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column ‘name’ at row 1 in /data/projects/projectname/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Command.php:1290 The first… Read More »

AWS: MariaDB RDS – kill: You are not owner of thread

14 May 2019
 

 We have AWS RDS with MariaDB. The error below and its solution aren’t specific to AWS RDS and MariaDB. The next error appears during attempt to kill() a thread in MySQL: [simterm] MariaDB [(none)]> kill 759; ERROR 1095 (HY000): You are not owner of thread 759 [/simterm] The solution is to use the mysql.rds_kill() procedure… Read More »

TestRail: reset admin password

13 May 2019
 

 We have a TestRail installation but suddenly lose its Admin user password. The Reset Password says that “Email sending failed” although email was configured and users are able to get emails from the server. Also, the log /var/www/testrail.example.com/logs/log-2019-05-13.php didn’t says anything so will reset password in another way – by update this TestRail MySQL database… Read More »

Redis: replication, part 4 – writing an Ansible role fore the Master-Slave replication with Redis Sentinel provisioning

15 April 2019
 

 The next post from the Redis replication series. Previous parts: Redis: replication, part 1 – an overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology. Redis: replication, part 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel Redis: replication, part 3 – redis-py and work with Redis Sentinel from Python The task now is to write an… Read More »

Redis: Sentinel – bind 0.0.0.0, the localhost issue and the announce-ip option

10 April 2019
 

 Originally, in a Sentinel’s configs, I have used the bind 0.0.0.0 to make them accessible from external hosts. Because of this when I started rolling out this setup on a real environment faced with an issue when Sentinels could not determine a Master host and other Sentinel hosts. In this post – such an issue… Read More »

MySQL/MariaDB: like Petya ransomware for MySQL and ‘root’@’%’ access

3 April 2019
 

  This story happened on 10/06/2017, adding this post in English now. The original post (Rus) was written almost right after the well-known Not a Petya attack in Ukraine – that’s why it’s used in the title. I had a new project assigned to me. When I started its existing setup investigation – was just… Read More »

Redis: replication, part 3 – redis-py and work with Redis Sentinel from Python

1 April 2019
 

 Still on the subject about Redis replication and Redis Sentinel – a couple of examples using the redis-py library for Python. Previous series posts: Redis: replication, part 1 – an overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology Redis: replication, part 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel All Redis clients for Python can be… Read More »

Redis: replication, part 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel

29 March 2019
 

 The first part – Redis: replication, part 1 – overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology. The next part – Redis: replication, part 3 redis-py and work with Redis Sentinel from Python. The whole story was started when we decided to get rid of memcached. Currently, we have memcahced and Redis running on… Read More »

Redis: replication, part 1 – an overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology.

29 March 2019
 

 CodeProject Initially, it was planned to write one small post with an example how to create a Redis replication but as I read more and more details – I wanted to describe more and more about it, so eventually I split this post into two parts. In this one – some quick overview, a brief… Read More »