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Vettabase Blog: A Hub of Articles on MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Cassandra
We at Vettabase are advocates of open source software and mindset. Our team believes in transparency, knowledge sharing and professional discussions (though we had to enable moderation for commentaries to avoid spam). We appreciate sharing and quoting our blog posts, but please always refer to Vettabase and the author.
MariaDB Catalogs: some use cases
This month I attended Monty’s talk about Catalogs at MariaDB Server Fest 2023 in Helsinki. He described this nice feature, which is still under development, and how it will work. But when he talked about the use cases, I was under the impression that catalogs have more use cases
First steps with pgBackRest, a backup solution for PostgreSQL
pgBackRest is an open source backup tool that creates physical backups with some improvements compared to the classic pg_basebackup tool. pg_basebackup is included in the PostgreSQL binaries, and it offers a great set of features for hot binary backups, remote backups, and standby building, etc. pgBackRest is a solution
MariaDB/MySQL: working with storage engines
MariaDB and MySQL support several storage engines. See MariaDB and MySQL storage engines: an overview for a discussion about existing MariaDB and MySQL storage engines. Here we’ll see how to work with them. We’ll see how to obtain information about storage engines, install them, configure them, monitor them, use
MariaDB and MySQL storage engines: an overview
MySQL was the first DBMS to introduce the concept of storage engines in the early 2000s. This was one of its main features. Later, MariaDB extended the storage engine API and included some storage engine maintained by third parties as part of its official distribution. This means that support
MySQL 8.0.33 : Quick Overview
The MySQL Team has released MySQL 8.0.33 very recently on April 18, 2023. This release contains a number of bug fixes along with some interesting improvements. In this blog post, I’ll cover the most important changes in MySQL 8.0.33. Variables can be set while installing the components Starting from
The UUID data type in MariaDB
MariaDB introduced the UUID data type in version 10.7. The first long-term support (LTS) version to include it is 10.11, which was declared stable in February 2023.
Overview of detailed slow query logging in MySQL 8: log_slow_extra
Every MySQL 8 minor release comes with a good number of bug fixes as well as exciting new features. MySQL 8.0.14 introduced the new log_slow_extra parameter. It is used to enable additional fields in the MySQL slow query log. They will help you get more information about the query
MariaDB 10.11 LTS: New types and functions, more dynamic InnoDB configuration
A review of MariaDB 10.11, currently the newest Long Term Support GA version.
A summary of MariaDB 10.10: INET4 type, RANDOM_BYTES() and more
In my first post in 2023, I want to give you a summary of MariaDB 10.10. Some may argue that I’m a bit late because it was released last November, and versions 10.11 and 11.0 have been announced since then… All that is correct, but 10.10 is the latest
Cassandra: How to run a query with Maximum Consistency
Cassandra consistency levels are a tricky concept, until you familiarise with them. They're based on a simple consideration: not all data and not all queries require the same level of correctness.
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