Recently, I wrote three articles on how to analyze queries and generate a slow query log for MySQL Database Service on OCI: In these post, we were generating a slow query log in text or JSON directly in Object Storage.…
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…
Full table scans can be problematic for performance. Certainly if the scanned tables are large. The worst case is when full table scans are involved in joins and particularly when the scanned table is not the first one (this was…
This is the second article of the series dedicated to MySQL trending. As I wrote before, understanding your workload and seeing the evolution of it over time can help anticipating problems and work on solutions before the breakdown. This article…
We are getting many requests for migration from MariaDB to MySQL. Here is a quick guide and steps to follow: On the MariaDB server: Create a logical dump of MariaDB (using MySQL Shell) Create a dedicated user for replication [optional]…
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