In this new series of articles we will explore the different sources of information available when using MySQL Database Service on OCI to effectively perform your daily DBA job. Of course there is way less things to take care of,…
For a long time, I never encountered any system using FEDERATED tables. But recently, there seems to be more interest for FEDERATED tables. Is this related to the increase of microservices? In a microservices architecture, services are typically designed to…
InnoDB has been the default storage engine for MySQL since version 5.5 (July 2010!). If you are still using MyISAM as the storage engine for your tables, it might be time to consider migrating to InnoDB. InnoDB offers several advantages…
The fourth edition of the MySQL Cookbook, solutions for database developers and administrators is a huge book, 938 pages ! And the least we can say is that you get what you pay for ! This book is an excellent…
We are seeing increasing requests for migrations from MariaDB to MySQL. MariaDB has significantly diverged, and is no longer drop-in compatible with MySQL. To migrate from MariaDB to MySQL, an in-place upgrade is not possible. A logical dump and load…