With MySQL 8.0, the error logging subsystem has been redesigned to use the new component architecture. Thanks to this new redesign, now the log events can be filtered, the output can be sent to multiple destinations (different formats like JSON).…
In MySQL 8.0, the engineers have added useful meta-data to the table SETUP_INSTRUMENT. This table lists the classes of instrumented objects for which events can be collected. To the NAME, ENABLES and TIMED columns, were added PROPERTIES, VOLATILITY and DOCUMENTATION.…
MySQL 8.0’s new default authentication plugin means more secure connections for users connections but also for replication… but you need to be aware of it ! Yesterday Giuseppe – the datacharmer – Maxia, submitted a bug related to a strange…
With MySQL 8.0, engineers improved the visibility of data locking. Usually it was not that easy to deal with the output of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS and mixing Information_Schema tables like INNODB_LOCKS and INNODB_LOCK_WAITS. So in MySQL 8.0 we instrument…
As you may already know, MySQL 8.0 is coming with SQL Roles . I’ve already quoted them before in some posts (here and here). Giuseppe Maxia is doing a great job testing and promoting them (thank you for that!). Of…
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