Recently I wrote an article on how to define a backup policy for MySQL Database Service in OCI using Terraform. We saw that it was possible to define tags (defined_tags and freeform_tags) in the backup_policy section of a oci_mysql_mysql_db_system resource.…
I recently had the chance to read in preview Bill Karwin‘s new book: SQL Antipatterns, Volume 1: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming. This book is a rework of Bill’s best seller from 2010. The new book can be considered…
Last Wednesday, at MySQL Day in Rome, my colleague Marco Carlsessi was very proud to show me the gift his wife had given him for when he had to make presentations: the Logitech Spotlight presentation remote. I found it very…
The subtitle of this post could have been “Review of an awesome MySQL event”. I’ve been invited by the MySQL Italian team to deliver a session about MySQL Shell during the MySQL Day in Roma. This was the very first…
Let’s continue the discovery of the MySQL Database Resource when deploying on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Terraform. Last week, we saw how to create custom configurations and define user variables. Today we will see how we can define a backup…
With Terraform OCI provider 4.90.0 (released August 24th, 2022), we have added the possibility to specify the value of editable configuration variables directly from Terraform. These variables must be defined in a resource of type oci_mysql_mysql_configuration like this: We can…
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.…
Usually, I receive a lot of emails, and sometimes I read them on my phone and then… I forgot about them.. (shame on me). On my Linux desktop, I used to use Get Things Gnome for a long time, due…
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