(João Gramacho) Starting in version 8.0.14, MySQL server can encrypt all new binary and relay log files on disk. In order to do so, you just need to enable the new binlog_encryption option (and also ensure that you have a keyring).

(Michael Coburn and Tomer Shay) A common challenge with continuously deployed applications is that new and modified SQL queries are constantly being introduced to the application.

(Jesper Krogh) The MySQL X DevAPI is the new API that provides a uniform API across the supported programming languages. It has from the beginning supported that you can specify a default schema, when you connect.

(Rene Ramirez) The MySQL Development team is proud to announce a new version of the MySQL Shell which includes the following features:

(Vinoth Kanna) During our recent consulting with one of our client, We came across an interesting issue on RDS. The baseline is that “Low IO size on your RDS instance can affect your DB performance”. Yes, It’s IO size, Not IOPS.

(Luis Soares) MySQL 8.0.14 is out and it contains some new and very interesting replication enhancements. As always, we are very pleased to share with you the details about the exciting new features in this release.

(Bhuvanesh) To continue our adventures on MySQL, today we investigated one more issue about MySQL’s memory consumptions. It’s not a very big deal but looks something interesting/warning if you are using Metabase.

(Mayank Prasad) In my previous post (here) I talked about “InnoDB Transparent tablespace encryption” which was introduced in MySQL 5.7.11. That encryption was limited to file-per-table tablespaces.

(Alena Subotina) We are thrilled to inform our MySQL users that fresh and new dbForge Studio for MySQL, v8.1 has been just rolled out!

(Alexander Rubin) Parallel query execution is my favorite, non-existent, feature in MySQL. In all versions of MySQL – at least at the time of writing – when you run a single query it will run in one thread, effectively utilizing one CPU core only.