The latest release of MySQL (October 25th, 2023) is the second Innovation Release of the most popular Open Source database. This new evolution release brings us ever closer to the very first MySQL LTS Release! This new Innovation Release already…
We’ve been all waiting for it! It’s now available! Read/Write Splitting in MySQL !! At scale, we distribute reads between replica(s), but this has to be managed somehow in the application: pointing writes somewhere and reads somewhere else. With MySQL…
Since MySQL Shell 8.1, it’s even easier to create a logical backup of your MySQL instance and store it directly in Object Storage, an internet-scale, high-performance storage platform in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). MySQL Shell now offers the option of…
Let’s see how to deploy WordPress and MySQL on a Kubernetes Cluster. The Kubernets cluster we are using is OKE (Oracle Kubernetes Engine) in OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure): OKE Cluster We start by creating a Kubernetes Cluster on OCI using…
To copy a MySQL server to another server or to the cloud, there are several ways. We can distinguish between two different types of copy: The physical copy is often the fastest. However, it requires some tools to ensure that…
Sometimes it’s convenient to retrieve the user creation statement and to copy it to another server. However, with the new authentication method used as default since MySQL 8.0, caching_sha2_password, this can become a nightmare as the output is binary and…
If you are deploying MySQL on containers, one of the first tasks is to find the right image. There’s a certain amount of confusion, especially when we’re trying to help someone who’s having problems with their deployment. For example, when…
Many of us, old MySQL DBAs used Seconds_Behind_Source from SHOW REPLICA STATUS to find out the status and correct execution of (asynchronous) replication. Please pay attention of the new terminology. I’m sure we’ve all used the old terminology. However, MySQL…
After having explained how to build MySQL 8 (MySQL 8.0 and MySQL 8.1) on OL9 and OL7, this episode of the series will cover how to build MySQL 8 on Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) and compatible (EL8, CentOS 8, …).…
Following our discussion with Simon about compiling MySQL 8.0.34 and 8.1.0 for OL9 (RedHat and CentOS Stream as well), see this blog post, we realized that compiling the latest MySQL 8.x on OL7 (EL7) wasn’t very simple either. After soliciting…
There are plenty GUI and Web application used to monitor a MySQL server. But if you are long time MySQL DBA, you might have used (and abused) Innotop ! I loved it ! And I even became maintainer of it.…
After discussing with Simon about some issues when trying to recompile MySQL 8.0.34 on CentOS 9 (see #111159), I also tried it and indeed some dependencies are not listed when compiling via the source RPM. Let’s see how to recompile…
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