For a long time, I never encountered any system using FEDERATED tables. But recently, there seems to be more interest for FEDERATED tables. Is this related to the increase of microservices? In a microservices architecture, services are typically designed to…
InnoDB has been the default storage engine for MySQL since version 5.5 (July 2010!). If you are still using MyISAM as the storage engine for your tables, it might be time to consider migrating to InnoDB. InnoDB offers several advantages…
We are seeing increasing requests for migrations from MariaDB to MySQL. MariaDB has significantly diverged, and is no longer drop-in compatible with MySQL. To migrate from MariaDB to MySQL, an in-place upgrade is not possible. A logical dump and load…
The latest MySQL release has been published on January 17th, 2023. MySQL 8.0.32 contains some new features and bug fixes. As usual, it also contains contributions from our great MySQL Community. I would like to thank all contributors on behalf…
Recently Jack asked me for a Sysbench package for OL9. In this post, you can find the RPM packages of Sysbench 1.1.0 build for Oracle Linux 9, RedHat Enterprise 9 and any RPM compatible system. Sysbench’s binary is linked with…
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