As a DBA, comparing Database Server versions is an important part of preparing an upgrade. You need to know which server options were added or removed, which defaults changed, and what else is different between the versions you are running…
As a DBA, disk space has always worried me. In fact, the biggest problem for a MySQL/MariaDB DBA is the large, fragmented InnoDB Tablespaces. It was even more problematic when a single tablespace handled everything. But even with a tablespace…
MariaDB 13.1 introduces the long-awaited `->` and `->>` JSON operators, together with `FORMAT JSON` support in `JSON_TABLE()`. Discover how these improvements simplify JSON queries, preserve nested objects and arrays, and improve compatibility with MySQL applications.
When we talk about extending a database server, we usually think about features that could benefit a very large number of users. A new authentication mechanism, a storage engine, an audit plugin, a new generic data type such as UUID…
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…