Today is a good day…
Today is a good day for me. Today I tweeted that MySQL after 25 years is still GPL and same for all important components: the server, the shell, the router, the clone plugin, workbench ! To be honest, Oracle has…
MySQL 8.0.20: Thanks for the Contributions
As you know, today, MySQL 8.0.20 has been released. I started this new thread category with 8.0.19 (see this post). A late thanks to Guoji Ma, for a contribution to bug #95801 “show create table output can’t be executed” that…
Using OCI to install Moodle with MySQL 8.0
Let’s continue our series of using OCI to install popular Open Source programs with MySQL 8.0. After WordPress, Drupal, it’s not the Moodle’s turn!
MySQL Lock information in MySQL Shell
Last Tuesday, it was the very first session of DB AMA, Morgan Tocker made a nice presentation of MySQL Performance_Schema and illustrated it with some nice queries to get Meta et Data Locks. As those queries were not that simple…
HA for our website’s database in OCI with MySQL InnoDB Cluster
In the previous post, we setup a Drupal website with MySQL as backend on a different compute instance in a different subnet. Today we will increase the High Availability of our Database by transforming this single MySQL instance into a…
Using OCI to install Drupal and MySQL 8.0
My previous post related on how to install WordPress on Oracle Cloud seemed to be very popular. To continue the exploration of OCI, today we will install Drupal. This time, even if it’s possible to use the Free Trier like…
Using OCI to install WordPress and MySQL 8.0
Today we will see how to install WordPress in Oracle Cloud (OCI). We will use Oracle Cloud’s Free Trier and deploy 2 compute instances: the webserver (apache, PHP and WordPress) the database server (MySQL 8.0)
MySQL 8.0.19: Thanks for the Contributions
Of course MySQL 8.0.19 that was released on 13th January 2020 also includes Community Contributions. But before talking about them, I would like to thanks Jesper for having started this MySQL Releases Contributions thread. I’ll try to keep his good…
Deploy MySQL InnoDB Cluster in OCI with Terraform
As you know, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (aka OCI) becomes more and more popular. You can find OCI data centers almost everywhere and the price is very attractive. Something very interesting is the possibility to have different availability domains but also…
preFOSDEM MySQL Days: summary and slides
What a great event ! I got very positive feedback for this extended preFOSDEM MySQL Day 2020. Before my summary, I wanted to thank again all speakers and attendees. Without you this event won’t even exist. And thank you to…
MySQL Day – the Uber Experience
Last week, we had two exceptional preFOSDEM MySQL Days in Brussels. A lot of MySQL Engineers presented their work but also different MySQL Users. I will publish soon an overview of the two days, but today let me share with…
MySQL 8.0 Certification is available !
The MySQL 8.0 DBA Certification is now available. 85 questions to get the first MySQL 8.0 certification ! You can find details on the Oracle Exam 1Z0-908 page. This exams covers mostly all relevant topics for all MySQL 8.0 Administrator…
