On July 1st, 3 new releases of MySQL came out. Indeed, we released the next 8.0 (8.0.38), the first update of the 8.4 LTS (8.4.1), and the very first 9.0 as Innovation Release. We now support 3 versions of the…
Some years ago, I wrote an article on connecting to MySQL 8.0 using the default authentication plugin (caching_sha2_password) with Perl. I also provided Perl-DBD-MySQL packages for EL7. Somebody recently left a comment as he was looking for a perl-DBD-MySQL driver…
Yesterday, MySQL 8.4, the very first LTS version of MySQL was released. A lot of deprecations have finally been removed, and several InnoDB variable default values have been modified to match current workloads and hardware specifications. The default value of…