(Meenakshi Agarwal) This tutorial explains about MySQL DATE data type and walks you through some of the standard date functions. It will help you use and handle dates more efficiently with MySQL.

(Prasanth C) Data is an invaluable asset to any organisation and every data should not be viable to all DB users.

(Meenakshi Agarwal) This tutorial explains MySQL UPPER()/UCASE() functions which convert the lower case characters of a string to upper case.

(Dave Stokes) The ability to import data in parallel is now a feature of the new MySQL Shell. And you can run it from a command line instead of from within an interactive shell.

(Ashraf Sharif) ProxySQL has supported native clustering since v1.4.2. This means multiple ProxySQL instances are cluster-aware; they are aware of each others’ state and able to handle the configuration changes automatically by syncing up to the most up-to-date configuration based on configuration v

(Abdel-Mawla Gharieb) Some time ago, I was building a new MySQL DB server (5.7.25) and like all DBAs, I have a template of my.cnf that I use for the new instances after changing a few variables based on the instance resources, replication … etc. I had MySQL installed but I struggled on having the se

(Vinicius Grippa) In this post, we will discuss a new feature – the MySQL 8.0.17 clone plugin. Here I will demonstrate how easy it is to use to create the “classic” replication, building the standby replica from scratch.

(Tomer Shay) From time to time, you might notice that your MySQL database suddenly under-performs.

(Wayne Leutwyler) The blog post How to Compile Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 in Raspberry Pi 3 by Walter Garcia, inspired me to create an updated install of Percona Server for the Raspberry Pi 3+.

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting? So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud.