I’ve been lately compiling and generating .deb packages for several MySQL and MariaDB recent versions, and I wanted to try them more in depth -specially MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB 10.2, both of which are still in development. Several people have
Testing the Fastest Way to Import a Table into MySQL (and some interesting 5.7 performance results)
As I mentioned on my last post, where I compared the default configurations options in 5.6 and 5.7, I have been doing some testing for a particular load in several versions of MySQL. What I have been checking is different
Which Compression Tool Should I Use for my Database Backups? (Part I: Compression)
This week we are talking about size, which is a subject that should matter to any system administrator in charge of the backup system of any project, and in particular database backups. I sometimes get questions about what should be