MySQL Books: SQL Antipatterns, Volume 1

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…

Fedora 36 rpm of Projecteur for Logitech Spotlight

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…

MySQL Day Roma 2022 – review

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…

MySQL & UUIDs

More and more people are using UUID’s to identify records in their database. As you already know, for MySQL’s storage engine (InnoDB) the primary key is very important ! (for performance, memory and disk space). See the following links: …

Always use MySQL Shell

You know how much I praise and like MySQL Shell but if like me, for you too, old habits die hard, I advise you to create these different aliases in your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.bash_aliases) file to force yourself to use…

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