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I’d had some difficulty manually creating my own windows service for MariaDB (worked fine from the installer), but it was due to the way I was creating it, so I wanted to share the proper approach:

Old Way:

sc create "maria55" binpath= "\"C:/Program Files/MySQL/MariaDB 5.5/bin/mysqld\"
\"--defaults-file=C:/Program Files/MySQL/MariaDB 5.5/data/my.ini\""
DisplayName= "Maria55" start= "auto"

New Way:

sc create "maria55" binpath= "\"C:/Program Files/MySQL/MariaDB 5.5/bin/mysqld\"
\"--defaults-file=C:/Program Files/MySQL/MariaDB 5.5/data/my.ini\" maria55"
DisplayName= "Maria55" start= "auto"

The key is adding the name, maria55, after the –defaults-file=.. option, but still within the “” that belong to “binpath”.

This extra parameter exists so that mysqld knows whether or not it was started as a service or not.

Without it, the server does not know, and therefore didn’t realize it was running as a service, and thus since the service manager got no response from mysqld, it terminated the service after 30 seconds (though I could connect and issue any MySQL command or query within that 30 seconds).

Many thanks to Wlad for helping me to track this down!

For reference, here is my terminal output:

C:\>sc create "maria55" binpath= "\"C:/Program Files/MySQL/MariaDB 5.5/bin/mysqld\"
\"--defaults-file=C:/Program Files/MySQL/MariaDB 5.5/data/my.ini\" maria55"
DisplayName= "Maria55" start= "auto"
[SC] CreateService SUCCESS

C:\Users\Chris>net start maria55
The maria55 service is starting.
The maria55 service was started successfully.

With the initial service attempt, the service creates fine, but fails after 30 seconds:

C:\Users\Chris>net start maria55
The service is not responding to the control function.

More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.

Hope this helps.

I am very pleased to say that earlier today, SkySQL announced it has raised $4 Million in Series A Round Funding.

Let me post the main part of the press release here:

SAN JOSE – April 18, 2012 – SkySQL, the first choice in affordable database solutions for the MySQL® and MariaDB® databases in the enterprise and the cloud, today announces that the company has raised $4 million in Series A funding from a number of investors, including OnCorps, an elite peer-based community of veteran technology investors and advisors committed to bringing better, cost-disruptive technologies into the mainstream. Also funding the round are European investors including Finnish Industry Investment Ltd., Spintop Ventures and Open Ocean Capital.

SkySQL will primarily use the investment to fund growth in its new product development, including adding critical positions. This is the company’s most recent move in expanding beyond a MySQL and MariaDB services-only company into a fully-fledged database products and services provider. SkySQL made its debut in October 2010 and has been funded to date with seed money from OnCorps, as well as Open Ocean Capital. Today, SkySQL is currently operating in 13 countries.

“The SkySQL strategy aligns well with OnCorps’s technology leadership vision,” said Bob Suh of OnCorps. “SkySQL will capitalize on the growing database and cloud services market. We are delighted and look forward to working with the SkySQL team to contribute to their continued success.”

“This investment will let us focus on ramping up development and efforts behind both enterprise and cloud database products that address a very real need in the marketplace,” said Ulf Sandberg, chief executive officer of SkySQL. “We also plan to build on our existing MySQL and MariaDB services offering, which offers customers unrivaled support, consulting and training.”

You can read the full press release here:

http://www.skysql.com/news-and-events/press-releases/skysql-raises-4-million-series-round

Very exciting times!

Well, as you or may not have heard, MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.23) was declared GA last week!

It was only about 6-ish weeks ago that MariaDB 5.5 had been released as alpha, so the fact it’s already GA is excellent news for all MariaDB users (and MySQL 5.5 users looking to migrate).

Some of the 5.5 enhancements include:

• Significantly more efficient thread pool, comparable in functionality to the closed source feature in MySQL Enterprise.
• Non-blocking client API Library (MWL#192)
• @@skip_replication option (MWL#234)
• SphinxSE updated to version 2.0.4.
• “extended keys” support for XtraDB and InnoDB
• New INSTALL SONAME statement
• New LIMIT ROWS EXAMINED optimization.
• mysql_real_connect() Changes
  In MySQL, and in MariaDB versions before 5.5.21, mysql_real_connect() removes from the MYSQL object any options set with mysql_option() when it fails. Beginning with MariaDB 5.5.21, options are preserved by a failing mysql_real_connect(); use mysql_close(), as normal, to clear them.
  This only has effect if the MYSQL object is reused after a mysql_real_connect() failure (which is unusual). No real-life incompatibilities are expected from this change (it is unlikely that an application would rely on options being automatically removed between connection attempts).

• The variables replicate_do_*, replicate_ignore_*, and replicate_wild_* have been made dynamic, so they can be changed without requiring a server restart. See Dynamic Replication Variables for more information.
• Updates to performance schema tables are not stored in binary log and thus not replicated to slaves. This is to ensure that monitoring of the master will not cause a slower performance on all slaves. This also fixes a crash on the slaves.

Here is the official “What is MariaDB 5.5″ page:

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-55

Also of interest:

Release Notes
Changelog
General Info

And as always, if you’d like full support for MariaDB, just contact us at SkySQL.

Hope this helps.

This is another, in-case-you-missed-it, but it is definitely worth mentioning again:

MariaDB 5.3 is now GA

So, if you’re using MariaDB 5.1 or 5.2, I’d definitely recommend upgrading to the new MariaDB 5.3.

Also, if you’re a Windows user using MySQL 5.1, I’d highly consider making the switch to MariaDB 5.3 due to all of the Windows-specific improvements in it.

MariaDB 5.3 Enhancements:

• Subquery optimizations
• Semi-join subquery optimizations
• Non-semi-join optimizations
• Subquery Cache
• Subquery Optimizations Map
• Optimizations for derived tables and views
• Disk access optimization
• Join optimizations
• Index Merge improvements
• Optimizer control
• NoSQL-style interfaces
• Group commit for the binary log
• Replication and binary logging enhancements
• Microsecond support for NOW() and timestamp, time, and datetime columns
• Windows performance improvements
• And a number of other general improvements

MariaDB 5.3 Windows-Specific Performance improvements include:

• Backported Windows performance patches from MySQL 5.5
• Asynchronous IO in XtraDB is redesigned and is now faster, due to the use of IO completion ports
• Additional durability option for XtraDB : innodb_flush_method can now be O_DSYNC, like on Unixes. (The effect of using this option is that the log file is opened with FILE_FLAG_WRITETHROUGH, and FlushFileBuffers() is not done. This may improve speed in write-heavy scenarios.)
• A new Windows MSI installer
• Includes a GUI-tool, HeidiSQL

All of the above, and more are documented in further detail here:

http://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-is-mariadb-53

You can download it here:

http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.3/

(And just for reference, if running MariaDB you should probably keep your eye on the new MariaDB 5.5 too (5.5.20 was alpha, 5.5.21 is now beta), benchmarks here).

Hope this helps.

In case you didn’t notice it last week, MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.20, specifically) has been released.

It’s a release I’ve been looking forward to for a while now, so I’m very excited that it’s now available!

Note that it is currently ‘alpha’ since it is the very first release of MariaDB 5.5. However, it is not your typical new ‘alpha’, so I would expect it to be GA in the not-so-distant future (please don’t quote me on this though, as I have no idea of the true time table – but the goal is for the next 5.5 release to be ‘beta’).

You can download MariaDB 5.5 from the following location:

http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.5/

There are also more details on this 5.5.20 MariaDB version here:

What is MariaDB 5.5
Release Notes
Changelog
General Info

Recently, I found myself needing MariaDB 5.1.60 for Windows for some testing purposes. Therefore, I needed to build it from source. I ended up using what I’d call a “blend” of the commands listed in this “how-to” and the readme file INSTALL-WIN-SOURCE, so I thought I’d post those steps.

1. Download 5.1.60 MariaDB source from here.

2. cd C:\mariadb-5.1

3. win\configure.js

4. cmake .

5. VS: File -> Open -> Solution -> MySql.sln
6. VS: Build -> Build Solution
7. VS: Right-click “PACKAGE” -> Build (in “Solution Explorer” View)

That’s it.

Let’s fire it up:

MariaDB> select version();
+----------------------+
| version()            |
+----------------------+
| 5.1.60-MariaDB-debug |
+----------------------+

MariaDB> show global variables like 'innodb_version';
+----------------+-------------+
| Variable_name  | Value       |
+----------------+-------------+
| innodb_version | 1.0.17-13.0 |
+----------------+-------------+

MariaDB> show engines;
+------------+---------+---------------------------...
| Engine     | Support | Comment		   ...
+------------+---------+---------------------------...
| CSV        | YES     | CSV storage engine	   ...
| InnoDB     | DEFAULT | Percona-XtraDB, Supports t...
| PBXT       | YES     | High performance, multi-ve...
| MARIA      | YES     | Crash-safe tables with MyI...
| MyISAM     | YES     | Default engine as of MySQL...
| FEDERATED  | YES     | FederatedX pluggable stora...
| MRG_MYISAM | YES     | Collection of identical My...
| MEMORY     | YES     | Hash based, stored in memo...
+------------+---------+---------------------------...

..

For reference, here are my full outputs:

C:\Users\Chris>cd ..\..\mariadb-5.1

C:\mariadb-5.1>win\configure.js

C:\mariadb-5.1>cmake .
-- Check for working C compiler: cl
-- Check for working C compiler: cl -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: cl
-- Check for working CXX compiler: cl -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
build CSV as static library (libcsv.lib)
build FEDERATEDX as static library (libfederatedx.lib)
build HEAP as static library (libheap_s.lib)
build MARIA as static library (libmaria_s.lib)
build MYISAM as static library (libmyisam_s.lib)
build MYISAMMRG as static library (libmyisammrg_s.lib)
build PBXT as static library (libpbxt_s.lib)
build XTRADB as static library (libxtradb.lib)
build ARCHIVE as DLL (ha_archive.dll)
build BLACKHOLE as DLL (ha_blackhole.dll)
build EXAMPLE as DLL (ha_example.dll)
build FEDERATED as DLL (ha_federated.dll)
build INNODB_PLUGIN as DLL (ha_innodb_plugin.dll)
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: C:/mariadb-5.1

Open Visual Studio -> File -> Open -> Project/Solution -> Select C:\mariadb-5.1.60\MySql.sln

Build Solution Output:

========== Build: 79 succeeded, 0 failed, 2 up-to-date, 2 skipped ==========

Package Build Output:

1>------ Build started: Project: PACKAGE, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>
1>Performing Post-Build Event...
1>CPack: Create package using NSIS
1>CPack: Install projects
1>CPack: - Install project: MySql
1>CPack: -   Install component: Unspecified
1>CPack: -   Install component: headers
1>CPack: -   Install component: mysqltest
1>CPack: -   Install component: runtime
1>CPack: -   Install component: scripts
1>CPack: -   Install component: sqlbench
1>CPack: Compress package
1>CPack: Finalize package
1>CPack: Package C:/mariadb-5.1/MariaDB-5.1.60-win32.exe generated.
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\mariadb-5.1\PACKAGE.dir\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>PACKAGE - 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 81 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I’m often wondering what version of the InnoDB Plugin is included with which version of MySQL (or MariaDB). The MySQL changelogs used to denote which version of the InnoDB plugin was included with that particular release of MySQL, but sadly this is no longer the case.

Therefore I’ve compiled a comprehensive list which contains all of this info, and then some (and note all InnoDB Plugin changelog links are provided at the bottom).

Hope you find it helpful

MySQL 5.5:

MySQL 5.1:

MariaDB:

 
Changelogs:

Note: The plugin versions had their own changelogs initially, but eventually the changes were just mixed into the general changelogs for the MySQL Server.

Note: Also, some plugin versions span multiple MySQL versions, so those have multiple links below.

Plugin 1.0:

1.0.0	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-100.html
1.0.1	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-101.html
1.0.2	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-102.html
1.0.3	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-103.html
1.0.4	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-104.html
1.0.5	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-105.html
1.0.6	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-106.html
1.0.7	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-107.html
1.0.8	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes-108.html
1.0.9	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-48.html
1.0.10	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-49.html
1.0.11	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-50.html
1.0.12	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-51.html
1.0.13	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-52.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-53.html
1.0.14	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-54.html
1.0.15	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-55.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-56.html
1.0.16	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-57.html
1.0.17	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-58.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-59.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-60.html

Plugin 1.1:

1.1.0	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb/1.1/en/innodb-changes-11.html
1.1.1	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-5.html
1.1.2	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-6.html
1.1.3	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-7.html
1.1.4	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-8.html
1.1.5	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-9.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-10.html
1.1.6	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-11.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-12.html
1.1.7	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-13.html
1.1.8	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-14.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-15.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-16.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-17.html
	http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-18.html

Misc. Notes:

5.1.38 is first release of the plugin

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-38.html

And for reference, here is the text from that announcement regarding the InnoDB Plugin:

C.1.1. Changes in MySQL 5.1.38

  As of MySQL 5.1.38, the InnoDB Plugin is included in MySQL
  releases, in addition to the built-in version of InnoDB that
  has been included in previous releases. This version of the
  InnoDB Plugin is 1.0.4 and is considered of Beta quality.

  The InnoDB Plugin offers new features, improved performance
  and scalability, enhanced reliability and new capabilities
  for flexibility and ease of use. Among the features of the
  InnoDB Plugin are "Fast index creation," table and index
  compression, file format management, new INFORMATION_SCHEMA
  tables, capacity tuning, multiple background I/O threads, and
  group commit.

  For information about these features, see the InnoDB Plugin
  Manual at

http://www.innodb.com/products/innodb_plugin/plugin-documentation

  For general information about using InnoDB in MySQL,
  see Section 13.6, "The InnoDB Storage Engine."

  The InnoDB Plugin is included in source and binary
  distributions, except RHEL3, RHEL4, SuSE 9 (x86, x86_64,
  ia64), and generic Linux RPM packages.

  To use the InnoDB Plugin, you must disable the built-in
  version of InnoDB that is also included and instruct the
  server to use InnoDB Plugin instead. To accomplish this, use
  the following lines in your my.cnf file:

    [mysqld]
    ignore-builtin-innodb
    plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb_plugin.so

  For the plugin-load option, innodb is the name to associate
  with the plugin and ha_innodb_plugin.so is the name of the
  shared object library that contains the plugin code. The
  extension of .so applies for Unix (and similar) systems. For
  HP-UX on HPPA (11.11) or Windows, the extension should be .sl
  or .dll, respectively, rather than .so.

  If the server has problems finding the plugin when it starts
  up, specify the pathname to the plugin directory. For
  example, if plugins are located in the lib/mysql/plugin
  directory under the MySQL installation directory and you have
  installed MySQL at /usr/local/mysql, use these lines in your
  my.cnf file:

    [mysqld]
    ignore-builtin-innodb
    plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb_plugin.so
    plugin_dir=/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/plugin

  The previous examples show how to activate the storage engine
  part of InnoDB Plugin, but the plugin also implements several
  InnoDB-related INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables. (For information
  about these tables, see

http://www.innodb.com/doc/innodb_plugin-1.0/innodb-information-schema.html)

  To enable these tables, include additional name=library
  pairs to the plugin-load option:

    [mysqld]
    ignore-builtin-innodb
    plugin-load=innodb=ha_innodb_plugin.so
      ;innodb_trx=ha_innodb_plugin.so
      ;innodb_locks=ha_innodb_plugin.so
      ;innodb_cmp=ha_innodb_plugin.so
      ;innodb_cmp_reset=ha_innodb_plugin.so
      ;innodb_cmpmem=ha_innodb_plugin.so
      ;innodb_cmpmem_reset=ha_innodb_plugin.so

  The plugin-load option here is formatted on multiple lines
  for display purposes but should be written in my.cnf using a
  single line without spaces in the option value. On Windows,
  substitute .dll for each instance of the .so extension.

  After the server starts up, verify that InnoDB Plugin has
  been loaded by using the SHOW PLUGINS statement. For example,
  if you have loaded the storage engine and the
  INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables, the output should include lines
  similar to these:

    mysql> SHOW PLUGINS;
    +---------------------+--------+--------------------+---------------------...
    | Name                | Status | Type               | Library             ...
    +---------------------+--------+--------------------+---------------------...
    | InnoDB              | ACTIVE | STORAGE ENGINE     | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
    | INNODB_TRX          | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
    | INNODB_LOCKS        | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
    | INNODB_CMP          | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
    | INNODB_CMP_RESET    | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
    | INNODB_CMPMEM       | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
    | INNODB_CMPMEM_RESET | ACTIVE | INFORMATION SCHEMA | ha_innodb_plugin.so ...
    +---------------------+--------+--------------------+---------------------...

  If you build MySQL from a source distribution, InnoDB Plugin
  is one of the storage engines that is built by default. Build
  MySQL the way you normally do; for example, by using the
  instructions at Section 2.10, "MySQL Installation Using a
  Source Distribution." After the build completes, you should
  find the plugin shared object file under the
  storage/innodb_plugin directory, and make install should
  install it in the plugin directory. Configure MySQL to use
  InnoDB Plugin as described earlier for binary distributions.

Misc Links:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-plugin-introduction.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-changes.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/innodb-5-5.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/innodb-plugin/1.0/en/innodb-plugin-installation.html

On this big trip, I made particular effort to finally visit Monty at his home near Helsinki. Somehow, in all my years at MySQL AB, this never happened – a sad omission. So, I spent the Easter days with Monty, Anna and now 5yo Maria.

I’m not a fan of most meetings, and in many cases in-person meetings are not actually necessary to get things organised or done, but I think this was both most enjoyable as well as productive for our respective businesses and joint interests. Good company, discussion, food, drink, sauna… fabulous.

It’s a great pity we live on opposite sides of the planet, as we do get along very well together. We definitely don’t agree on everything, but we’re always absolutely direct with each other, and try to provide good arguments whenever we disagree, to explore things further.