MySQL Server 8.0.17: Thanks for the Contributions
Tweet MySQL 8.0.17 was released Monday and it includes great features such as the Clone feature and multi-valued indexes. There are also several nice contributions from the community. These are the...
View ArticleCreate MySQL Test Instance with Oracle Cloud Free Tier
Tweet Oracle announced this week at Oracle OpenWorld that it has introduced a new cloud offer called Oracle Cloud Free Tier. As the name suggest, it allows you to run a few limited instances in Oracle...
View ArticleMySQL Server 8.0.18: Thanks for the Contributions
Tweet In my blog series about external contributions to MySQL 8 we have reached version 8.0.18 which was released Monday 14 October 2019. Again the community has contributed to make MySQL better....
View ArticleBack Up MySQL View Definitions
Tweet If you want to back up your table and views, stored procedures, or stored function definitions, you can use mysqldump or mysqlpump to export the schema without the data. However, if you just...
View ArticleNew Book: MySQL 8 Query Performance Tuning
Tweet I have over the last few years been fortunate to have two books published through Apress, Pro MySQL NDB Cluster which I wrote together with Mikiya Okuno and MySQL Connector/Python Revealed. With...
View ArticleMySQL 8.0.20: Index-Level Optimizer Hints
Tweet MySQL introduced optimizer hints in version 5.7 and greatly extended the feature in MySQL 8. One thing that has been missing though is the ability to specify index hints using the syntax of...
View ArticleApress Blog: MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices
Tweet To celebrate the publishing of my new book MySQL 8 Query Performance Tuning, the Apress team invited me (thanks Jonathan and Liz) to write a post for the Apress blog. I decided to write about my...
View ArticleMySQL Compressed Binary Logs
Tweet On a busy server, the binary logs can end up being one of the largest contributors to amount of disk space used. That means higher I/O, larger backups (you are backing up your binary logs,...
View ArticleHappy Birthday MySQL
Tweet Today 23 May 2020, it is 25 years since the first release of MySQL. So, I would like to take the opportunity to wish MySQL – and Sakila – a happy birthday. My own MySQL journey started in 2006...
View ArticleI Am Speaking at Oracle Developer Live – MySQL 2020
Tweet It is a year of online conferences and next week, the time has come to Oracle Developer Live for MySQL. It consists of a keynote at the start of the day and two tracks at the rest of the day....
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