The risks of MySQL release policy

MySQL 8.0 and 5.7 follow a new release policy that exposes users to important risks. They broke compatibility with Xtrabackup (again). Continue reading The risks of MySQL release policy
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MySQL 8.0 and 5.7 follow a new release policy that exposes users to important risks. They broke compatibility with Xtrabackup (again). Continue reading The risks of MySQL release policy
Transactions can be read only. This article explains what read only transactions are and why we should use them when appropriate. Continue reading READ ONLY transactions in MariaDB and MySQL
This article discusses how to access data from a remote table using the CONNECT storage engine, in MariaDB. Continue reading Using CONNECT to access remote MariaDB or MySQL tables
MariaDB Server Fest 2020 was a great online event for the MariaDB community. This is a review from Vettabase. Continue reading A MariaDB Server Fest 2020 review
Running DROP statements in production is always dangerous. But there are some measures we can take to make them safer. Continue reading Dropping database objects in a safe way
MySQL and MariaDB optionally log slow queries into the Slow Query Log – or just Slow Log, as friends call it. However, there are good reasons to log all the queries, not just some of them. Continue reading Logging all MariaDB and MySQL queries into the Slow Log
User Statistics plugin allows to analyse the way tables are used, which of them are used most – and therefore, on what we need to focus on to optimise the server’s workload. Continue reading Understanding tables usage with User Statistics on MariaDB and Percona Server
In MariaDB and MySQL, all tables should have a primary key – especially InnoDB tables. Here’s why. Continue reading Why Tables need a Primary Key in MariaDB and MySQL
It is possible to prevent some users from seeing a set of rows in a certain table. Continue reading MariaDB/MySQL: Using views to grant or deny row-level privileges
MariaDB implemented several improvements to the DROP TABLE statement. We summarise them here. This article will be kept up to date when MariaDB implements further improvements, in the future. Continue reading DROP TABLE improvements in MariaDB