How to use MySQL FEDERATED engine ?

For a long time, I never encountered any system using FEDERATED tables. But recently, there seems to be more interest for FEDERATED tables. Is this related to the increase of microservices? In a microservices architecture, services are typically designed to…

MySQL Books: MySQL Cookbook 4th Edition

The fourth edition of the MySQL Cookbook, solutions for database developers and administrators is a huge book, 938 pages ! And the least we can say is that you get what you pay for ! This book is an excellent…

How to Migrate from MariaDB to MySQL 8.0

We are seeing increasing requests for migrations from MariaDB to MySQL. MariaDB has significantly diverged, and is no longer drop-in compatible with MySQL. To migrate from MariaDB to MySQL, an in-place upgrade is not possible. A logical dump and load…

Sysbench 1.1.0 for Oracle Linux 9

Recently Jack asked me for a Sysbench package for OL9. In this post, you can find the RPM packages of Sysbench 1.1.0 build for Oracle Linux 9, RedHat Enterprise 9 and any RPM compatible system. Sysbench’s binary is linked with…

MySQL Connection Control

As a MySQL database administrator, have you ever faced a brute force attack on your database server or been the target of a DDOS-like connection flow on port 3306? If so, you will quickly understand why this plugin distributed with…

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