This MySQL replication error — fatal error 1236  / Replica has more GTIDs than the source has, using the source's SERVER_UUID  — shows the i...

Today, I was reminded of a MySQL Best Practice, probably generalizable to all databases : using simple types, not complex types.  Such compl...

I would like to thank AWS Open Source for their support. For some time, I am maintaining Planet for the MySQL Community, a blog / news agg...

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I am upset about this one : I have a hard time not seeing this as negligence, and it starts to become a pattern...  So please forgive me if ...

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I recently troubleshoot an interesting MySQL crash, and I think it is worth sharing (with the related bugs).  MySQL crashed when the disk wa...

While doing benchmarks on 5.7 and 8.0, I came across a performance regression in MySQL 8.0 over 5.7 and opened a bug ( Bug #111353 : 3x Perf...

I just submitted a MySQL Contribution and I would like to gather feedback about it.  Depending on the received feedback, I might submit an u...