(Dag Wanvik) MySQL 8.0.2 introduces SQL window functions, or analytic functions as they are also sometimes called. They join CTEs (available since 8.0.1) as two of our most requested features, and are long awaited and powerful features.

(Dave Stokes) The find() function for the MySQL Document Store is a very powerful tool and I have just finished a handy introductory video. By the way — please let me have feed back on the pace, the background music, the CGI special effects (kidding!), and the amount of the content.

(Jervin Real) In this blog post, I’ll look at a trick we use at Percona when upgrading to MySQL 5.7.

(Dave Stokes) I am starting a series of videos on the MySQL Document Store. The Document Store allows those who do not know Structured Query Language (SQL) to use a database without having to know the basics of relational databases, set theory, or data normalization.

(Peter Zaitsev) In this blog post, I will run a gh-ost benchmark against the performance of pt-online-schema-change.

(Abhishek Ranjan) MySQL 5.6 introduced the fractional second precision for temporal data types – TIME, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP, with up to microseconds (6 digits) precision.

(Alex Poritskiy) In this blog post, we’ll look at how using thread_statistics can cause high memory usage.

(Dave Stokes) Last time I looked at using the new MySQL Shell in JavaScript mode to access documents. I promised that I would look at indexes this time but a few folks wanted to see how to use the MySQL Document Store with Javascript — the language not the MySQL Shell mode– specifically with the N

(Frederic Descamps) Before explaining how you can improve the speed for performing point-in-time recovery, let’s recall what is Point-In-Time Recovery and how it’s usually performed.

(Jean-Jérôme Schmidt) Many thanks to everyone who registered and/or participated in Tuesday’s webinar on backup strategies and best practices for MySQL, MariaDB and Galera clusters led by Krzysztof Ksi¹¿ek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines.