Recently, I wrote three articles on how to analyze queries and generate a slow query log for MySQL Database Service on OCI: In these post, we were generating a slow query log in text or JSON directly in Object Storage.…
With the latest MySQL release (8.0.31), MySQL adds support for the SQL standard INTERSECT and EXCEPT table operators. Let’s have a look how to use them. We will use the following table: For our team meeting, we will order tacos…
Once again, the latest version of MySQL 8.0 includes several contributions from the MySQL Community. MySQL 8.0.31 was released on October 11th 2022. I would like to thank all contributors on behalf of the entire Oracle MySQL team ! This…
In the previous part, we created our application and our 2 functions. Now we need to create an API Gateway to be able to call these functions from outside OCI. Using a third party scheduler, our laptop, etc… Before creating…
In my previous post, I explained how to deal with Performance_Schema and Sys to identify the candidates for Query Optimization but also to understand the workload on the database. In this article, we will see how we can create an…
If like me you are an old experienced MySQL DBA, to analyze your MySQL workload, you certainly have used the slow query log with long_query_time set to 0. The slow query log is a file that contains all the queries…
Let’s continue our journey of deploying the MySQL Database System on OCI with Terraform.This time we will see how we can use a backup (see [1] and [2]) as a source (initial data) for a new instance. Within the oci_mysql_mysql_db_system…
Today I would share a nice book related to MySQL 8.0 for our Chinese users. The original title of this book by Scott Yao, is MySQL 8.0 运维与优化 I had the chance to read parts of the book before it…
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…
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