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…
Sometimes when you are using a MySQL InnoDB Cluster, you might encounter some performance issue because one node becomes dramatically slow. Why ? First of all, why ? A node can apply the transactions slower than the other nodes…
In MySQL 8.0, we have now a new way of storing tables definitions: the Data Dictionary ! Thanks to the Data Dictionary, DDLs in MySQL 8.0 are now Atomic. This means tat we have some changes in the behavior of…
Now that MySQL 8.0.3 RC1 is installed and that we saw how to verify the workload, it’s time to see if we can optimize some of the queries. As explained before, rewriting queries when using a product like WordPress is…
Now that MySQL is upgraded to 8.0 RC1, let’s have a look on how we could check the workload and see if we can optimize something by adding indexes for example. The same technique can be used to find inefficient…
Yesterday I decided to upgrade the database server of lefred.be running the latest WordPress to MySQL 8.0. The previous version was 5.7.19. My dedicated server is still running on CentOS 6.x, and I had just to enable the MySQL Community…
It was expected for a long time…. here is the fix for bug #199 !! The bug #199 submitted by PeterZ has been fixed in 8.0. Thank you to Zhang Simon for his contribution that inspired us to implement the…
Do you want to hear how popular, innovative and leading companies are using MySQL to scale their large workload ? Join Oracle Open World to learn from these successful players how to achieve strong business constraints using the most popular…
Like every year, the a MySQL Community Reception will take place during Open World. If you are using or interested in learning more about MySQL? And if you are attending Oracle OpenWorld and looking for an opportunity to meet and…
OOW17 is just around the corner. And again this year the MySQL team is very proud to present you their work mostly on MySQL 8.0 but also on NDB and all Enterprise tools we have. This year, we will also…
A MySQL replication topology can be very complex (never underestimate a DBA’s creativity). But it’s very frequent to use an asynchronous replica from your primary database to run reporting or logical backup… or any kind of read workload you need.…
From September 25th to 27th 2017, the MySQL engineers and community team will be speaking at Percona Live Europe in Dublin. MySQL is also part of the contributing sponsors. For the conference, we tried to bring new faces to the…