(Todd Farmer) Over the years, MySQL has used three different mechanisms for securing passwords both for storage and for transmission across networks. This blog post aims to provide a brief history of the various mechanisms and highlight reasons to migrate accounts to use the sha256_password mechanis

(Pedro Gomes) One of the key features of MySQL Group Replication is its distributed recovery mechanism. Whenever a new member joins a server group, making use of this plugin component, it reaches to a suitable donor and fetches the data that it misses up until the point it is declared online.

(Pedro Gomes) One of the key features of MySQL Group Replication is its distributed recovery mechanism. Whenever a new member joins a server group, making use of this plugin component, it reaches to a suitable donor and fetches the data that it misses up until the point it is declared online.

We manage hundreds of servers and have a need to add and remove DBAs, application developers, and so on regularly. Doing this manually is just beyond the scope of what we can realistically manage. Since we are already using LDAP, we wanted to find a way to integrate it with MySQL.

We manage hundreds of servers and have a need to add and remove DBAs, application developers, and so on regularly. Doing this manually is just beyond the scope of what we can realistically manage. Since we are already using LDAP, we wanted to find a way to integrate it with MySQL.

(René Cannaò) With the imminent release of ProxySQL as stable version, and its presentation at PerconaLive Amsterdam , I decide to write few blog posts to describe how to install, configure and use it without digging too much through documentation.

(René Cannaò) With the imminent release of ProxySQL as stable version, and its presentation at PerconaLive Amsterdam , I decide to write few blog posts to describe how to install, configure and use it without digging too much through documentation.

(Stephane Combaudon) Several reports we’re published in the news about how easy it is to access data stored in some NoSQL systems, including MongoDB. This is not surprising because security was rather relaxed in earlier versions of MongoDB . This post lists some of the common vulnerabilities in Mong

(Stephane Combaudon) Several reports we’re published in the news about how easy it is to access data stored in some NoSQL systems, including MongoDB. This is not surprising because security was rather relaxed in earlier versions of MongoDB . This post lists some of the common vulnerabilities in Mong

(Hemant Dangi) In 0.5.0 version of MySQL Group Replication plugin, we have introduced the Auto-increment configuration/handling feature through which auto increment variables (auto_increment_increment and auto_increment_offset) are auto configured by the plugin, so that different members of the grou