Names are important. They help us identify people, projects, products, pets, database servers, and occasionally the correct bug tracker. This may sound obvious, but the database world has spent more than fifteen years proving that it is not. MySQL and…
Reversing Transactions Directly from the Binary Log Some ideas never completely disappear. They remain somewhere in your brain, waiting for the right opportunity—or the right API—to come back. For me, recovering rows from the binary log is one of those…
Have you ever modified a MariaDB configuration file, restarted the service, and immediately regretted it? You wanted to change: but accidentally wrote: One missing letter. That is enough to turn a perfectly healthy database server into a service that refuses…
As you may already know, there are many places where a MariaDB system variable can get its value. It can come from: And when several configuration files are involved, finding the effective source is not always obvious. Fortunately, MariaDB provides…
Apache Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) provides a standard interface for exchanging data between applications and databases using Apache Arrow. You can think of it as an Arrow-oriented alternative to traditional database APIs such as ODBC and JDBC. The important difference…