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Understanding ProxySQL: The Ultimate Database Proxy Solution
September 16, 2024

Understanding ProxySQL: The Ultimate Database Proxy Solution

Are you tired of MySQL bottlenecks slowing down your application? Then, it's time your organization uses a database proxy.  ProxySQL is a high-performance op

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The Ultimate Guide to Database Proxies: What They Are and Why You Need One
August 25, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Database Proxies: What They Are and Why You Need One

The internet surrounds us in today’s digital world, so much so that not a single task is complete without a simple Google search. We lean on the internet for va

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May 6, 2024

Managing ProxySQL Admin Credentials: A Guide to admin-admin_credentials

Introduction Admin credentials serve as the gateway to ProxySQL's configuration, granting users unparalleled control over its functionalities. However, the imp

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May 3, 2024

Optimizing Database Performance with ProxySQL Query Rewrite

In the realm of database management, optimizing performance is paramount to ensuring smooth operations and preventing potential disruptions. One tool that has e

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March 26, 2024

Enhancing Database Security with ProxySQL 2.6.0: caching_sha2_password

Enhancing Database Security with ProxySQL 2.6.0: Introducing caching_sha2_password Authentication In the digital age, where data breaches are increasingly comm

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Failover comparison in Aurora MySQL 2.10.0 using proxySQL vs Aurora's cluster endpoint
January 4, 2022

Failover comparison in Aurora MySQL 2.10.0 using proxySQL vs Aurora's cluster endpoint

Aurora cluster promises a high availability solution and seamless failover procedure. However, how much is actually the downtime when a failover happens? And ho

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Unadventurous Amazon RDS Upgrades with ProxySQL
February 4, 2021

Unadventurous Amazon RDS Upgrades with ProxySQL

If you're still running RDS 5.5 you have reached the end of the line, its time to upgrade... heck, if you're running RDS 5.6 an upgrade is just as mandatory!

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February 1, 2021

How MySQL Bug #102266 affects ProxySQL

Overview If you are using ProxySQL 2.0.16 in front of MySQL 5.7/5.6 servers or even in front of MySQL 8.0.0, please check your ProxySQL error logs for the message below to ensure that you are not experiencing the MySQL bug #102266: 2021-06-23 02:38:18 MySQL_Session.cpp:2798:handler_again___status_CHANGING_USER_SERVER(): Error during change user: 1045, Access denied for user 'mary'@'172.21 If

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Observability Enhancements in ProxySQL 2.1 with Prometheus & Grafana
January 19, 2021

Observability Enhancements in ProxySQL 2.1 with Prometheus & Grafana

cat < proxysql.cnf ################################################################################ #

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Effortlessly Scaling out Galera Cluster with ProxySQL
September 23, 2020

Effortlessly Scaling out Galera Cluster with ProxySQL

This post is the first of a series of blogposts on how to easily use ProxySQL to scale-out your application's database workload on a Galera cluster. This series

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Protect your data using ProxySQL Firewall
July 9, 2020

Protect your data using ProxySQL Firewall

ProxySQL Firewall Overview ProxySQL's flexible query rules engine has many uses, from Read/Write splitting, sharding and even creating firewall blacklist. This

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Architecting MySQL for Scale with ProxySQL
April 6, 2020

Architecting MySQL for Scale with ProxySQL

A selection of the companies we have helped scale

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Native Galera Support In ProxySQL
March 2, 2019

Native Galera Support In ProxySQL

The latest enhancement in ProxySQL v2.0.0 is the native support of Galera Cluster. No more need to use an external script within the scheduler like explained al

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Amazon Aurora - Seamless Planned Failover with ProxySQL
September 10, 2018

Amazon Aurora - Seamless Planned Failover with ProxySQL

One of the more popular solutions for a DBaaS in today's market is Amazon's RDS / Aurora service. Historically Amazon RDS was quite popular however Aurora has b

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Scaling from a Dark Ages of Big Data to Brighter Today
August 29, 2018

Scaling from a Dark Ages of Big Data to Brighter Today

This topic has been up in the air for a long time. What would be the best approach: get less large boxes or smaller for the same price? What would be pros and c

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SSL Encryption at ProxySQL Part 1
August 20, 2018

SSL Encryption at ProxySQL Part 1

MySQL, ProxySQL & SSL As we all know, MySQL supports using SSL to secure connections by encrypting the data in transit and protecting it from snooping on the w

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ClickHouse and ProxySQL queries rewrite
March 31, 2018

ClickHouse and ProxySQL queries rewrite

ClickHouse and MySQL do not have the same SQL syntax and functions ProxySQL is a popular open source, high performance and protocol-aware proxy server for MySQ

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GTID consistent reads
March 21, 2018

GTID consistent reads

Adaptive query routing based on GTID tracking ProxySQL is a layer 7 database proxy that understands the MySQL Protocol. It provides high availability and high

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March 20, 2018

ProxySQL Fast Routing

ProxySQL's new routing algorithm to handle hundreds of thousands of schemas/shards ProxySQL is a service designed to scale and handle traffic in very large setups. In the past we already showed examples of how ProxySQL can handle thousands of MySQL servers, and millions (yes, millions!) of distinct...

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Benchmarking ProxySQL 1.4.4
January 3, 2018

Benchmarking ProxySQL 1.4.4

Comparing ProxySQL 1.4.3 vs. 1.4.4 ProxySQL 1.4.4 has recently been released (GA on Dec 20, 2017) which naturally leads to the question “What performance gains

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