Learn how to build a Nest.js API connect it to a MySQL database add a schema and data and and run database queries.

When we need to upgrade from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 replica.

This article will explain how to set up MySQL 8 as a replica from an existing MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup.

In my lab, we have two test nodes:

PRIMARY:  mysql57 (192.168.56.111)    with   Percona Server 5.7 and  xtrabackup 2.4 installed
REPLICA:  mysql8    (192.168.56.113)   with  Percona Server 8  and   xtrabackup 8.0 installed

0. Pre-flight check with MySQL upgrade checker utility

Let’s run the MySQL upgrade checker utility to verify whether MySQL 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade.

MySQL  localhost  JS > util.checkForServerUpgrade('root@localhost:3306', {"password":"####", …

MySQL Book Review: Efficient MySQL Performance from Daniel Nichter, O'Reilly, 2021.

For a long time, I never encountered any system using FEDERATED tables. But recently, there seems to be more interest for FEDERATED tables. This article illustrates how to use FEDERATED tables in MySQL.

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of the multi-master Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.7.40 (release notes, download) and MySQL-wsrep 8.0.31 (release notes, download) with Galera replication library 4.14 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 26. …

This blog gives details of the new feature introduced in MySQL 8.0.29 using which column(s) can be added/dropped to/from a table with ALGORITHM=INSTANT.

Free MySQL Summit Day - March 23rd, in-person and virtual. See main reasons to attend and agenda.

In this tutorial, we’ll be going over every step of how to install MySQL on AlmaLinux. Database servers are the ...

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While Galera Manager is ideal for deploying on Amazon AWS or DigitalOcean, or even on your own on-premise hosts, there is a third option that exists, that allows you to monitor an existing cluster that you already have installed. While we won’t go thru installing a Galera Cluster in this post, we will show you how to get Galera Manager to function for this purpose.

Obtain Galera Manager via filling in the form. Once you have the gm-installer on your Galera Manager host, remember to execute: chmod +x gm-installer. We recommend also …

SQLAlchemy is a popular Python library that gives you many tools to interact with SQL databases. With SQLAlchemy, you can do things like send raw queries to a database, programmatically construct SQL statements, and even map Python classes to database tables with the object-relational mapper (ORM). SQLAlchemy doesn't force you to use any particular features, so it has the flexibility to support many different approaches to working with databases. You can use SQLAlchemy for one-off scripts, web apps, desktop apps, and more. Anywhere that you'd use a SQL database along with Python, you can use SQLAlchemy. This tutorial will cover setting up an engine object in Python SQLAlchemy 2.0, which is the first step to using SQLAlchemy. Then, it will cover two specific ways of interacting with a database: with raw SQL statements and by using the object-relational mapper. This tutorial covers the most recent version of SQLAlchemy, which is 2.0, as of writing …