As you probably already know, MySQL 8.0 supports Unicode 9.0 and our default charset moved from latin1 to utf8mb4. Recently, Gabi (certainly working on an amazing presentation for PHPWorld) asked me something about how the client deals with the emojis…
In MySQL 8.0, we have now a new way of storing tables definitions: the Data Dictionary ! Thanks to the Data Dictionary, DDLs in MySQL 8.0 are now Atomic. This means tat we have some changes in the behavior of…
Now that MySQL 8.0.3 RC1 is installed and that we saw how to verify the workload, it’s time to see if we can optimize some of the queries. As explained before, rewriting queries when using a product like WordPress is…
Now that MySQL is upgraded to 8.0 RC1, let’s have a look on how we could check the workload and see if we can optimize something by adding indexes for example. The same technique can be used to find inefficient…
Yesterday I decided to upgrade the database server of lefred.be running the latest WordPress to MySQL 8.0. The previous version was 5.7.19. My dedicated server is still running on CentOS 6.x, and I had just to enable the MySQL Community…
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