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Tutorial
Data persistence and file storage represent two of the biggest challenges when horizontally scaling web applications. This is mainly due to the fact that it is hard to maintain consistency of variable data between mul...
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Bobby Iliev, Erika Heidi
PHP
PHP Frameworks
Object Storage
Scaling
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
DigitalOcean Spaces
Laravel
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Tech talk
How to use DigitalOcean and Magento, a free open source eCommerce platform, to build and grow an enterprise-ready online store from the ground up.
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Austin Black
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed Load Balancers
Tech Talks
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Tech talk
Migrate your data quickly, get more powerful instances, and see how leveraging DigitalOcean Managed Databases allows you to focus on what's important — building your product.
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Mark Huber
Tech Talks
Databases
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed Redis
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Question
Is it possible to connect MySQL version 8 Managed database as the data source for Google data studio?
I am getting an error "Sorry, we encountered an error and were unable to complete your request"
Accepted Answer:
Hello,
From apr-29-2021 (https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/10331528#apr-29-2021) update Google supports MySQL 8 version.
The below URL will provide you steps to connect the MySQL database as a data source t...
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Rajkishore
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
MySQL
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Question
I want to know how to check disk, cpu and RAM usage of the managed MySQL and Postgresql database cluster?
Accepted Answer:
Hi,
To view performance metrics, click the name of the database to go to its Overview page, then click the Insights tab. The Select object drop-down menu lists the cluster itself and all the databases in the cluster....
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priyankamalik
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL Database
MySQL
PostgreSQL
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Question
I am trying to set up an application of mine using the new managed database, but when setting it up I get: -
DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Storage engine MyISAM is disabled
I was wondering is there a way to enable My...
Accepted Answer:
Hi,
Currently, with our managed database offering the storage engine for MySQL cannot be changed from innoDB to MyISAM.
You can know more about it at:
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/mysql/#mysql-limits
R...
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priyankamalik
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
MySQL
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Question
Grant on File permission is not working for the user doadmin. Can you please guide us how to do that?
I have tried the following query:
SELECT id, url, html INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/test.txt' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTION...
Accepted Answer:
Hi,
The operation (INTO OUTFILE) is potentially very dangerous, and we don't currently allow this in managed mysql services, because it could allow overwriting etc.
Regards
Priyanka
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priyankamalik
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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Question
I am currently running 1 droplet and within that it's running 1 web server and 1 database (MySQL).
My plan is to move out the database into a server of it's own.
The database is still fairly small, it's only at 250MB....
Accepted Answer:
It depends on how much time/energy you want to dedicate to maintain/update/backup your DB server. If you'd rather focus on something else, you could spin up your own Droplet. However, if you trust DO to have better me...
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davidyap
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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Question
I understand that it is not possible to use an SSH connection to a Managed Database server. That means I would need to use a TCP connection, right? I have tried entering the public host, port number, username doadmin,...
Accepted Answer:
Hi there @FrankJernigan,
What is the exact error that you get when you try to connect? Also, what is the Workbench version that you are using?
On another note, if you have enabled Trusted Sources for your Database Clu...
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FrankJernigan
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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Question
I have installed phpmyadmin in my centos8 droplet, and created an db cluster with same private network, I could connect db cluster through centos8 droplet terminal, however, I couldn't use phpmyadmin to connect the db...
Accepted Answer:
Hi there,
In your PHPmyAdmin config, you need to also specify the database port as the Managed Databases run on a non-standard port.
Another thing that could be causing the problem is if you've installed PHPmyAdmin wi...
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karlhui
CentOS 8
PHP
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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Hi, so I currently have a table with the following datatypes:
column1 -> TEXT
column2 -> TEXT
column3 -> TEXT
This table is huge, with over 500k+ rows. When I initially started using MySQL on DO, I hardly knew what a ...
Accepted Answer:
Hi @miramallows
You can use the SET SESSION sqlrequireprimary_key = 0;
It is for a single session though. Once you log out, you would need to run this again before you could do modify the table without primary key.
T...
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miramallows
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
MySQL
SQL
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Question
Hello, we have a small application running on a droplet and this application receives an average of 160 requests / minutes and performs some CRUD operations on the database. In each request, a connection is opened wit...
Accepted Answer:
Hi there,
I believe that 160 requests per minute should be OK, this is a little bit less than 3 queries per second. However, it really depends on the complexity of the queries and the amount of data. If you are doing ...
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csalg12
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
MySQL
Databases
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I have a MySQL database cluster set up that I can connect to successfully via the command line (by running the flags in the terminal).
I'd like to be able to connect to the MySQL Workbench. I looked at this tutorial (...
Accepted Answer:
Hi there,
The tutorial with the remote MySQL connection via SSH would not work for Managed MySQL Clusters as the clusters do not come with SSH access.
The tutorial would work if you had MySQL installed on a regular Dr...
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jjustinjaeger
MySQL
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
Databases
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I recently started using a managed DB and am getting the error "Out of sort memory, consider increasing server sort buffer size". How would I go about altering the sortbuffersize on a managed mysql instance?
I can't s...
Accepted Answer:
Hey @northerncyclist,
Indeed you are correct, as this is a managed solution you do not have access to the my.cnf file to make that change directly yourself.
However, please reach out to our amazing support team who wi...
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northerncyclist
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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Hi,
I am using Digital Ocean MySQL database service with MySQL workbench to manage it (Version 8.0.22 build 107600 CE 64 bit).
I have succesfully connected to the database with MySQL workbench and can see my schema an...
Accepted Answer:
Asked DigitalOcean support and they managed to find a solution.
Remove ANSI_QUOTES from Global SQL Mode for the managed database server and it worked for me.
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johnnychenjiahao
Databases
MySQL
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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i want to ask when standby node work and how it mirror primary node?
is it mirrioring in real-time?
so the data itself will be exact same on real-time.
and what if the datacenter is down? is the standby database will ...
Accepted Answer:
Hello,
In the event of a failure, Managed Databases will automatically switch data handling to a standby node to minimize downtime.
The data between the nodes is being replicated using SQL replication.
All database c...
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yggitteam
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
Needs Product Answer
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Question
I have setup a Manage MySQL Database primary note and a read-only node and want to use them for my WordPress site.
Does the "read-only node" works automatically as in auto split the read transactions?
If not, how do...
Accepted Answer:
Does the “read-only node” works automatically as in auto split the read transactions?
No, usually applications have to route the queries themself. Some ORMs makes this easier. In Node.js, I use Sequelize and see their...
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Liew
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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Question
Hi! I'm experiencing the app platform to deploy a single WordPress application. So, I created a database to be associated with the app and I did the deploy but I can't connect the WordPress application with the databa...
Accepted Answer:
Found the reason: The app platform doesn't have any persistent data so there is no possibility to deploy WordPress application on it.
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mikhaelipcn
DigitalOcean App Platform
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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Question
Hello! Just fired up a DigitalOcean managed MySQL database, and need to restrict to specific hosts that can access it. However I don't think there's a static IP or range they could potentially fire connections from. H...
Accepted Answer:
Hi @brian801307
I found the answer at these two links.
https://vercel.com/knowledge/how-to-allowlist-deployment-ip-address
https://github.com/vercel/vercel/discussions/4595#discussioncomment-26799
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brian801307
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
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I have tried to login in WordPress through WP-CLI but as I run wp-login, It shows "database error database.wp_user doesn't exist for query" and a bunch of other lines and I become unable to login.
What can I do to fi...
Accepted Answer:
Hi there @newwayelegant,
To me it looks like that either your database details are not correct in your wp-config.php file, you need to make sure that you use the correct database name, database username and password.
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newwayelegant
Databases
DigitalOcean Managed MySQL Database
WordPress
OpenLiteSpeed WordPress 1-Click