(Shinguz) The Docker version of the distributions are often quite old. On Ubuntu 16.04 for example:

(Øystein Grøvlen) A while ago, Lukas Eder posted a very interesting article on query optimizations that do not depend on the cost model. We often call such optimizations query transformations since they can be applied by rewriting the query.

(Shahriyar Rzayev) Recently I have encountered a weird simple issue with starting Slave server.

(Krzysztof Ksiazek) In ClusterControl 1.5 we added a support for the MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5. In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the features that make ClusterControl a great tool to manage MySQL NDB Cluster.

(Frederic Descamps) As you may already know, since MySQL 5.7.17, the generic partitioning handler in the MySQL server is deprecated, and is completely removed in MySQL 8.0.

(Ståle Deraas) With the transactional data dictionary in MySQL 8.0, see MySQL 8.0: Data Dictionary Architecture and Design , INFORMATION_SCHEMA is reimplemented as views over data dictionary tables.

(Robert Neumayer) In this post we show how to use the mysql-server Docker image for local development. We first introduce a simple example app that starts up and tries to connect to a given db until successful.

(Vadim Tkachenko) In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the facets of InnoDB page compression.

(Mark Callaghan) We were testing the impact of changing from gcc 4.9 to 5.x and from older to newer jemalloc. For one of the in-memory sysbench tests the QPS at high-concurrency dropped by 10%.

(Frederic Descamps) With MySQL 8.0, one key feature is the new Data Dictionary.