(Peter Gulutzan) It is the business of educated people to speak so that no-one may be able to tell in what county their childhood was passed. — A. Burrell, A Handbook for Teachers in Public Elementary School, 1891

(Peter Zaitsev) In this blog post, I’ll discuss how to use the InnoDB buffer pool pre-load feature in MySQL 5.7

(Morgan Tocker) In the MySQL team, one of our focuses over the last few releases has been improving the usability of the MySQL Server for operations teams. The results can be seen in a number of areas:

(Simon Mudd) While headlines likes this are really silly I thought it might be worth sharing some experience with 8.0.0 on a few servers I use. I tend to test new versions of MySQL first as a slave.

(Vlad Mihalcea) I read a very interesting article by Krešimir Nesek regarding MySQL result set streaming when it comes to reducing memory usage.

(Shinguz) As you probably know MySQL is an Open Source product licensed under the GPL v2. The GPL grants you the right to not just read and understand the code of the product but also to use, modify AND redistribute the code as long as you follow the GPL rules.

(Gleb Shchepa) In 8.0 we have introduced another bunch of parser refactoring worklogs:

(Mark Callaghan) I used sysbench to understand the impact of transaction isolation and the performance schema for InnoDB from upstream MySQL 5.6.26.

(Abdel-Mawla Gharieb) Whether for a maintenance, applying non dynamic config changes, MySQL upgrade or other many reasons, a MySQL shutdown/restart is required.

(Valeriy Kravchuk) The original idea of this series was to publish one post per week, but it seems every other week I have some special topic that well deserves a dedicated post. Last week I had no time to complete my writing because of long (and, I hope, useful) Howto post on replacing corrupted pa