(Giuseppe Maxia) In the theoretical part of this series, we have seen the basics of monitoring. In that article, though, we have barely mentioned the new tools available in MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB 10. Let’s start from something that has the potential of dramatically changing replication as we know it.

(Jimmy Yang) In April, I wrote a blog post introducing the new InnoDB virtual column and effective functional index work for the JSON lab release. Now the feature is officially in MySQL 5.7.8. It’s worth revisiting the topic again in order to write about what is in the 5.7 Release Candidate, along w

(Jimmy Yang) In April, I wrote a blog post introducing the new InnoDB virtual column and effective functional index work for the JSON lab release. Now the feature is officially in MySQL 5.7.8. It’s worth revisiting the topic again in order to write about what is in the 5.7 Release Candidate, along w

(Todd Farmer) Recent changes to support better security by increasing strength of Diffie-Hellman cipher suites from 512-bit to 2048-bit were introduced to MySQL Server 5.7. While this change enhances security, it is an aggressive change in that 2048-bit DH ciphers are not universally supported.

(Todd Farmer) Recent changes to support better security by increasing strength of Diffie-Hellman cipher suites from 512-bit to 2048-bit were introduced to MySQL Server 5.7. While this change enhances security, it is an aggressive change in that 2048-bit DH ciphers are not universally supported.

(Roel Van de Paar) My server is crashing… Now what?

(Roel Van de Paar) My server is crashing… Now what?

(Dave Stokes) Recently I have been using Ansible and Vagrant to test the MySQL 5.7 release candidates but several of you asked about using Docker. The hardest part of this process will be installing Docker on your operating system of choice and that is fairly easy.

(Dave Stokes) Recently I have been using Ansible and Vagrant to test the MySQL 5.7 release candidates but several of you asked about using Docker. The hardest part of this process will be installing Docker on your operating system of choice and that is fairly easy.

(Jan Lindstrom) A foreign key is a field (or collection of fields) in one table that uniquely identifies a row of another table. The table containing the foreign key is called the child table, and the table containing the candidate key is called the referenced or parent table.