Databases

August 5, 2020

Version Control for Distributed SQL Databases with Flyway

Flyway is an open source database version control and migration tool that stresses simplicity and convention over configuration. Changes to the database can be written in SQL (and in some database-specific dialects like PL/SQL and T-SQL) or Java. You interact with Flyway using a command-line client, however there are a variety of plugins that can be leveraged, including Maven, Gradle, Spring Boot, and more.

Supported databases include Oracle, SQL Server, DB2,

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August 3, 2020

By Dorian Hoxha

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – August 3, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we recap some distributed SQL questions from around the Internet. We’ll also review upcoming events, new documentation, and blogs that have been published since the last post. Got questions? Make sure to ask them on our YugabyteDB Slack channel, Forum, GitHub, or Stackoverflow. Ok, let’s dive right in:

Is there a way to get “updated_at”

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Distributed SQL Change Management with Liquibase and YugabyteDB on GKE

July 30, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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Distributed SQL Change Management with Liquibase and YugabyteDB on GKE

Liquibase is an open source and extensible change management project that supports a variety of databases including Snowflake, MySQL, and PostgreSQL via JDBC. Liquibase allows users to easily define changes in SQL, XML, JSON, and YAML. These changes are then managed in a version control system so the changes can be documented, ordered, and standardized. For more information on the features and benefits of Liquibase, check out their documentation site.

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Getting Started with SQLPad and Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine

July 29, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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Getting Started with SQLPad and Distributed SQL on Google Kubernetes Engine

SQLPad is an MIT licensed web app written in React and Node.js for writing and running SQL queries and visualizing the results. SQLPad supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Crate, Vertica, Presto, SAP HANA, Cassandra, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, SQLite, and many more via ODBC. Because YugabyteDB is PostgreSQL compatible, most third-party tools and apps will work “out of the box.” SQLPad is no exception here.

In this blog post we’ll show you how to:

Install a 3 node YugabyteDB cluster on Google Kubernetes Engine
Build the sample Northwind database
Build and configure SQLPad
Start the required SQLPad processes
Launch the SQLPad UI and issue a test query to validate the deployment

New to distributed SQL or YugabyteDB?

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TPC-C Benchmark: 10,000 Warehouses on YugabyteDB

July 28, 2020

By Karthik Ranganathan

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TPC-C Benchmark: 10,000 Warehouses on YugabyteDB

We are excited to announce that the TPC-C benchmark implementation for YugabyteDB is now open source and ready to use! While this implementation is not officially ratified by the TPC organization, it closely follows the TPC-C v5.11.0 specification.

For those new to TPC-C, the aim of the benchmark is to test how a database performs when handling transactions generated by a real-world OLTP application. This blog post shows the results of running the TPC-C benchmark in addition to outlining our experience of developing and running a TPC-C benchmark against YugabyteDB.

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July 24, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks for PostgreSQL and Oracle DBAs – July 24, 2020

Welcome to this week’s tips and tricks blog where we explore both beginner and advanced YugabyteDB topics for PostgreSQL and Oracle DBAs. First things first, for those of you who might be new to either distributed SQL or YugabyteDB.

What is Distributed SQL?

Distributed SQL databases are becoming popular with organizations interested in moving data infrastructure to the cloud or cloud native environments. This is often motivated by the desire to reduce TCO or move away from the horizontal scaling limitations of monolithic RDBMS like Oracle,

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July 22, 2020

By Andrew C. Oliver

Databases Distributed SQL How To

Porting Oracle to YugabyteDB

I am presenting an Introduction to SQL webinar at the end of the month–July 29 at 10am PT (1pm ET). In preparation for this, I needed a dataset. Because YugabyteDB is compatible with PostgreSQL, it seemed obvious to try out the PostgreSQL Tutorial site. However, I have never liked the “film database” example. I prefer the classic customers, orders, and products example. So instead I checked out the sister site the Oracle Tutorial.

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Getting Started with Longhorn Distributed Block Storage and Cloud Native Distributed SQL

July 21, 2020

By Jimmy Guerrero

Databases Distributed SQL How To Kubernetes

Getting Started with Longhorn Distributed Block Storage and Cloud Native Distributed SQL

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the Rancher blog, and has been cross-posted here and updated as of July 21, 2020 to account for new versions of software available.

Longhorn is cloud native distributed block storage for Kubernetes that is easy to deploy and upgrade, 100 percent open source, and persistent. Longhorn’s built-in incremental snapshot and backup features keep volume data safe, while its intuitive UI makes scheduling backups of persistent volumes easy to manage.

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July 17, 2020

By Dorian Hoxha

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Distributed SQL Tips and Tricks – July 17, 2020

How to identify a colocated database from the rest

One way to identify a colocated table in YugabyteDB is to look at the yb-master UI page (https://<yb-master-ip>:7000/tables).

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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy

July 15, 2020

By Sid Choudhury

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Announcing YugabyteDB 2.2 – Distributed SQL Made Easy

We are excited to announce the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.2! The highlight of this release is that YugabyteDB now supports fully-transactional distributed backups thus making mission-critical distributed SQL deployments operationally simple, even for the most demanding enterprise environments. This release also includes critical new features such as online index builds, colocated tables, and deferred constraints. The end result is that YugabyteDB continues to make distributed SQL easy. For those of you who are new to distributed SQL,

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