Author on Oracle MySQL Blog
You may have noticed, I started to blog also on the official Oracle MySQL Blog. When I will do so, I will also publish my articles on lefred.be after a short delay. I really invite you to follow the official…
lefred
I am MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. I joined the MySQL Community Team in May 2016. I have been an OpenSource and MySQL consultant for more than 15 years. My favorite topics are High Availability and Performance.
MySQL Shell and storing passwords
If you plan for example to have a bastion host in the cloud to access all your MySQL servers and use only MySQL Shell, the first time you connect to one of the host, you will realize that MySQL Shell…
From MySQL Group Replication to MySQL InnoDB Cluster
I wanted to be brave and I installed MySQL Group Replication manually…. it was painful ! Then I realized that managing those servers and especially deal with MySQL Routers was even more painful ! What are my options now ?…
MySQL: who’s filling my error log?
This morning, a user asked in the MySQL Community Slack if somebody had an idea why the error log was filled up continuously with a warning messages like this one: 2020-07-24T06:54:00.877128Z 46 [Warning] [MY-013360] [Server] Plugin sha256_password reported: ”sha256_password’ is…
MySQL – Keep an eye on your auto_increment values
In MySQL, it’s very common and recommended to you an auto_increment as Primary Key. However that integer can have different types each having their size limitation, and they can also be signed or not. Many people when creating a table…