(Catalin Besleaga) In MySQL 8.0.0 we introduced many new features; among those, three new functions that ease and enhance the support for working with UUIDs.
Tag: Open Source
Testing (again) LOAD DATA on MySQL 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 (non-GA) and MariaDB 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 (non-GA)
(Jaime Crespo) I’ve been lately compiling and generating .deb packages for several MySQL and MariaDB recent versions, and I wanted to try them more in depth -specially MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB 10.2, both of which are still in development.
MySQL 8.0: Storing IPv6
(Catalin Besleaga) In MySQL 8.0.0 we introduced many new features; among those, we extended the bit-wise operations to work with binary data. Because of these changes, storing and manipulating IPv6 addresses can be done in an easier manner. In this blog we will take a look at how can you do this for
Importing InnoDB Partitions in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0/10.1
(Geoff Montee) Transportable tablespaces for InnoDB tables is a very useful feature added in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0. With this new feature, an InnoDB table’s tablespace file can be copied from one server to another, as long as the table uses a file-per-table tablespace.
Business Continuity and MySQL Backups
(Dimitri Vanoverbeke) This blog post discusses the business continuity plan around MySQL backups, and how organizations should think about them.
MySQL Support Engineer’s Chronicles, Issue #4
(Valeriy Kravchuk) This week I had to deal with some unusual problems. But let me start with Percona’s xtrabackup, software that I consider a key component of many current production MySQL setups and use regularly.
Make MySQL 8.0 Better Through Better Benchmarking
(Peter Zaitsev) This blog post discusses how better MySQL 8.0 benchmarks can improve MySQL in general.
Capped Collections in MySQL
(Erick Dennis) I currently work for a German social networking site for business professionals called XING. As you can probably imagine, a member base of double-digit millions of users produces some pretty large amounts of data. Fortunately, for the Engineering Team this provides us with a never-end
MySQL 8.0: MTR Configurations to Be Set to Server Defaults Where Possible
(Deepa Dixit) MySQL Test Run or MTR for short, is a MySQL test program. It was developed to ensure that the MySQL server’s operation is as expected whether it be in terms of testing the functionality of new features or integrity of the old.
Database Daily Ops Series: GTID Replication and Binary Logs Purge
(Wagner Bianchi) This blog continues the ongoing series on daily operations and GTID replication.