(Robert Neumayer) Any software system requires secrets to run, be it credentials to communicate with databases, tokens to access resources, or encryption keys that need to be distributed.

(Shlomi Noach) This is the first in a series of posts reviewing methods for MySQL master discovery: the means by which an application connects to the master of a replication tree. Moreover, the means by which, upon master failover, it identifies and connects to the newly promoted master.

(Norvald H. Ryeng) MySQL 8.0 has many new GIS features, including a catalog of spatial reference systems (SRSs) and support for geographic (latitude-longitude) computations.

(Alkin Tezuysal) In this blog post, I’m going to revisit the ProxySQL Query Rewrite feature. You may have seen me talking about possible use case scenarios in the past few conferences, but the reason I’m starting with this is that query rewriting was the original intention for building ProxySQL.

(Krzysztof Ksiazek) Someone accidently deleted part of the database. Someone forgot to include a WHERE clause in a DELETE query, or they dropped the wrong table. Things like that may and will happen, it is inevitable and human. But the impact can be disastrous.

(Norvald H. Ryeng) MySQL 8.0.11 comes with a catalog of 5108 spatial reference systems (SRSs): 4628 projections (flat maps), 479 geographic (ellipsoidal) representations of Earth, and one Cartesian all-purpose abstract plane (SRID 0).

(Valerie Parham-Thompson) Earlier this year, I was presented with the challenge of streamlining user access to MySQL, allowing users self-serve access using their LDAP credentials, while logging all access.

(Mikael Ronström) NDB Cluster was designed from the ground up for real-time operations. It has its origins in the telecom industry where predictability of performance and latency is absolutely critical. In addition the telecom vendors are competing very much on pricing of their product.

(Nickolay Ihalainen) This blog post describes how to keep sensitive data secure on slave servers in a MySQL async replication setup.

(Norvald H. Ryeng) MySQL 8.0 brings a lot of new spatial features. The main feature is the support for multiple spatial reference systems (SRSs).