Today, I would like to present this new book from Rick Silva: MySQL Crash Course – A Hands-on Introduction to Database Development, No Starch Press, 2023. I participated in this project as technical reviewer and I really enjoyed reading the…
In this new article about how to find the info when using MySQL Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we will learn about the query accelerator: HeatWave. With HeatWave, you can boost the performance of your MySQL queries, providing your…
As a MySQL DBA, you like to know who is connected on the system you manage. You also like to know who is trying to connect. In this article, we will discover how we can retrieve the information and control…
For this third article of the series dedicated on how a DBA can find the info he needs with MySQL Database Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we will see how we can find the error log. When using MySQL DBAAS,…
This article is the second of the new series dedicated on how a DBA can find the info he needs with MySQL Database Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The first article was dedicated on Backups, this one is about Disk…
In this new series of articles we will explore the different sources of information available when using MySQL Database Service on OCI to effectively perform your daily DBA job. Of course there is way less things to take care of,…
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…
InnoDB has been the default storage engine for MySQL since version 5.5 (July 2010!). If you are still using MyISAM as the storage engine for your tables, it might be time to consider migrating to InnoDB. InnoDB offers several advantages…
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…
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…
After having cancelled 2 editions of the preFOSDEM MySQL Days because of the pandemic, we were finally back last week in Brussels for 2 wonderful days dedicated to the Dolphin database developed by Oracle. During this event and for the…
In 2023, FOSDEM returned as an in-person conference after being virtual for 2 years. With this comeback, the MySQL Team once again hosted the very popular preFOSDEM MySQL Days, a side event we have been doing since 2018. It was…
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