When working with MySQL (or any database!), it's essential to understand how indexes work and how they can be used to improve the efficiency of queries. An index is a separate data structure that maintains a copy of part of your data, structured to allow quick data retrieval. Usually, this structure is a B+ Tree. We have an entire post on how indexes work if you want to go into greater detail. Obfuscated indexes Creating indexes is only part of the battle. You must also know how to write your queries so that you allow MySQL to use your indexes. One common mistake people make when writing queries is that they obfuscate their indexes. Obfuscating an index simply means that you're hiding the indexed value from MySQL. Let's say you have a todos table with a created_at column that records a timestamp of when the record was created.CREATE TABLE `todos` ( `id` int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `title` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `created_at` timestamp NOT NULL …

Using redundant conditions as a method to unlock obfuscated indexes and improve performance in MySQL.

Learn how to seamlessly add a new node to MySQL Group Replication from a backup. Scale your cluster, save time, and efficiently manage data updates and recoveries.

1. Hot Physical backup approach
2. Clone plugin approach
3. Logical backup approach

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I already wrote on how to deploy WordPress on OCI using MySQL HeatWave, the MySQL Database Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:

• Using MySQL Database Service for WordPress
• Deploying WordPress on OCI with MySQL Database Service: the easy way !
• Deploy WordPress on OCI using MDS – updated version
• Deploy WordPress on OCI with MySQL Database Service using Read Replicas
• …

Fastest and easiest method to deploy WordPress and MySQL 8.0 on OCI with an always free tier.

The Vitess Maintainer team is pleased to announce the results of a recent third-party security audit of the Vitess code base. Vitess had previously been audited in 2019. Given the amount of time that has passed, and the magnitude of change during that time, the maintainer team decided to request a fresh audit. Starting in March 2023, an independent team from Ada Logics performed a full security audit of Vitess with a special focus on VTAdmin, which is a relatively new addition to Vitess.

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023.

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL).

Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL

The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. It is largely an unofficial response to published comments from the MariaDB Corporation.

It is worth noting that Percona Server for MySQL is a drop-in compatible branch of MySQL, where Percona contributes as much as possible upstream. MariaDB Server, on the other hand, is a fork of MySQL 5.5. They cherry-picked MySQL features and don’t …

ProxySQL is a high-performance MySQL proxy with a small footprint that can be installed in multiple environments such as VM, K8s, bare-metal, and Docker containers. In this guide, you will install and set up load balancing of MySQL Cluster via ProxySQL on a Debian 11 server.

This blog walk through an easy way to change global system variable time_zone using OCI dashboard

Learn how the parallel index rebuild feature in MySQL 8.0.31 improves performance by optimizing index and column additions. Explore the multithreaded insert phase, sort index build process, and system configurations for enhanced efficiency.

1. Understanding Sorted Index Build
   1. When does InnoDB use a sort index build approach?
2. Phases of Sort …