Category 8.0

MySQL & UUIDs

More and more people are using UUID’s to identify records in their database. As you already know, for MySQL’s storage engine (InnoDB) the primary key is very important ! (for performance, memory and disk space). See the following links: …

Always use MySQL Shell

You know how much I praise and like MySQL Shell but if like me, for you too, old habits die hard, I advise you to create these different aliases in your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_aliases) file to force yourself to use…

Dynamic InnoDB Redo Log

Since 8.0.30, you have the possibility to modify the InnoDB Redo Log Capacity online. An undersized Redo Log Capacity is problematic and lead to performance issues. However, it’s not recommended to oversize the Redo Log either. Redo Log files consume…

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