pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day 2018
As last year, we will take advantage of the mass presence of our engineers during FOSDEM to organize a MySQL Day once again. The Agenda is not yet known, but save the date and schedule your trip to Brussels keeping…
Category MySQL
From MySQL 5.6 partitioning to 5.7 and beyond
As you may already know, since MySQL 5.7.17, the generic partitioning handler in the MySQL server is deprecated, and is completely removed in MySQL 8.0. So now, in MySQL 5.7, the storage engine used for a given table is expected…
MySQL 8.0 Data Dictionary Tables… and why they should stay protected
With MySQL 8.0, one key feature is the new Data Dictionary. The system tables that were previously in MyISAM are now replaced by new protected ones in the DD. My friend Giuseppe already explained how you could see those tables…
Where does my MySQL configuration variable value come from ?
As you may already know, there are many different places where a MySQL configuration variables can be initialized. In MySQL 8.0, we added in performance_schema a table allowing you to easily find where a variable was defined. Let’s check this…
MySQL Clients and emojis !
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…
