Hints to optimise queries with a LIKE comparisonBy Federico Razzoli | September 15, 2022In SQL, using the LIKE operator is a powerful way to find strings that match a certain pattern. It's suitable for ...Read More
A summary of MariaDB 10.9: Vault integration, innodb_log_file_size and moreBy Federico Razzoli | September 6, 2022Our review of MariaDB 10.9 version, released in August 2022.Read More
A summary of MariaDB 10.8: key performance improvementsBy Federico Razzoli | June 14, 2022New features and performance optimisations in MariaDB 10.8 short term support release.Read More
MariaDB/MySQL: Working with MD5 or other hashesBy Federico Razzoli | February 17, 2022The optimal way to store a MD5 hashes in MariaDB, and how to work with them.Read More
MariaDB: The “Regexp AND LIKE” optimisationBy Federico Razzoli | January 27, 2022MariaDB supports regular expressions, but regexps won't use indexes. Here's a workaround that can be used in some cases.Read More
MariaDB: WITH TIES syntaxBy Federico Razzoli | December 13, 2021Semantics and use cases of the WITH TIES syntax.Read More
How to delete duplicate rows in MariaDBBy Federico Razzoli | November 28, 2021How to remote duplicate values from a table to add a UNIQUE index, in MariaDB.Read More
How slow is SELECT * ?By Federico Razzoli | September 18, 2021The most widely known query optimisation rule is that developers should always avoid SELECT *. Even when all ...Read More