(Paul Namuag) Deployment and management your database environment can be a tedious task. It’s very common nowadays to use tools for automating your deployment to make these tasks easier.

(Frederic Descamps) Recently, PeterZ pointed a huge difference in memory usage of MySQL 8.0 compare to MySQL 5.7. This can be an issue for small instances if the same configuration for buffers like the buffer pool are not changed.

(Kirsten Baumann) Tuning database performance is a complicated task that can be a thorn in the side of the database team. There are many interconnected components and environmental aspects that come under consideration when attempting to optimize the performance of your database systems.

(Ivan Groenewold) SELinux is always a complicated topic. If you search this on the web, most people will advise just disabling it, but that may not be acceptable from a security point of view in your organization.

(Geoff Winans) In my roles as a DBA at various companies, I generally found the tooling to be quite lacking. Everything from metrics collection, alerting, backup management; they were either missing, incomplete or implemented poorly.

(Dave Stokes) Multi-Valued Indexes are going to change the way you think about using JSON data and the way you architect your data.

(Peter Zaitsev) While we often run MySQL on larger scale systems in Production for Test and Dev, sometimes we want to run MySQL on the tiniest cloud instances possible or just run it on our laptops.

(Ankit Kumar) Today I am going to explain ways to execute shell or bash commands from mysql clients or stored procedure and function.

(Marco Tusa) To set correct system variable values is the essential step to get the correct server behavior against the workload.