More and more people are using UUID’s to identify records in their database. As you already know, for MySQL’s storage engine (InnoDB) the primary key is very important ! (for performance, memory and disk space). See the following links: …
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…
Recently, somebody asked me how he can find the long running transactions in MySQL. I already have one MySQL Shell plugin that allows you to find the current transactions sorted by time. The plugin allows you to also get the…
Since 8.0.30, you have the possibility to modify the InnoDB Redo Log Capacity online. An undersized Redo Log Capacity is problematic and lead to performance issues. However, it’s not recommended to oversize the Redo Log either. Redo Log files consume…
During my summer holidays, we released MySQL 8.0.30. MySQL 8.0.30 was released on July 26th 2022. If you are using 8.0.29, it’s highly recommended to upgrade as there was a bug corrupting InnoDB files in a rare and specific case.…
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