I am happy that the MySQL team is, during the last years, blogging about each major feature that MySQL Server is getting; for example, the series on Recursive Common Table Expressions. Being extremely busy myself, I appreciate taking the time
Finding out the MySQL performance regression due to kernel mitigation for Meltdown CPU vulnerability
Update: I included the results for when PCID is disabled, for comparison, as a worse case scenario. After learning about Meltdown and Spectre, I waited patiently to get a fix from my OS vendor. However, there were several reports of
Testing (again) LOAD DATA on MySQL 5.6, 5.7, 8.0 (non-GA) and MariaDB 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 (non-GA)
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
My Tutorial on Query Optimization for Percona Live London 2014 (and Important Information If You Wish to Attend)
Monday next week, on November 3rd, I will be delivering a tutorial on the greatest MySQL European Conference, the Percona Live London 2014. The topic is a natural continuation of the one I delivered last year on the same venue,
How to install MySQL 5.6 on CentOS 7
A bit of history The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, one of the most popular and respected Linux distributions in the server market, was released in June 2014, followed by CentOS 7 and Oracle Linux releases in July