The post explains how to use MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification Features.

Overview Data privacy is an important issue and a core requirement for regulatory compliance. Its required by: Data masking and de-identification enable the delivery of useful information or assure proper data presentation without violating privacy. MySQL Enterprise Edition provides the following capabilities to deal with the problem: Masking parts of text by replacing meaningful characters […]

I am finalizing my Percona Live talk MySQL and Vitess (and Kubernetes) at HubSpot.  In this talk, I mentioned that I like that Percona is providing better MySQL with Percona Server.  This comes with a little inconvenience though: with improvements, sometimes comes regression.  This post is about such regression and a workaround I implemented some time ago (I should have shared it

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MySQL Shell is a powerful command line interface for connecting to and managing MySQL instances. One feature of MySQL Shell’s Admin API is being able to dump specific tables (or a subset of data in a table), dump one or more complete schemas, or dump an entire database instance and then restore those dumps as needed. It has the added […]

MySQL Shell offers an upgrade over legacy MySQL CLI tools. One set of features that gets a boost is dumping and loading data. MySQL Shell allows users to load and dump data using a multithreaded process and to be more granular in what data is dumped and loaded than when using mysqldump. In this post we discuss how to use these utilities to dump specific tables in a schema, specific data in specific tables in a schema, one or more schemas simultaneously, and an entire MySQL instance.

Explore the powerful features of Aurora Serverless V2 for MySQL in this informative blog series. Learn about read-only scaling, parameter support, and cost performance. Compare costs between Provisioned Aurora and Aurora Serverless V2. Discover key takeaways for optimizing your MySQL deployment on the cloud. Read now!

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Character sets and collations are fundamentally important concepts to understand when dealing with string columns in MySQL. A slight misunderstanding of either can lead to poor performance or unexpected errors when inserting data. A character set defines the characters allowed to go in a column. A collation is a set of rules for comparing those characters. Each character set can have multiple collations, but a collation may only belong to one character set. Character sets in MySQL MySQL supports a wide range of character sets, which you can view by selecting from the information_schema database.SELECT * FROM information_schema.character_sets ORDER BY character_set_name

This will list out all of the character sets, along with their default collations. Every character set has one default collation.| CHARACTER_SET_NAME | DEFAULT_COLLATE_NAME | DESCRIPTION | MAXLEN | …

Understanding the differences between character sets and collations in MySQL.

The SQL language provides a lot of effective operators for retrieving and presenting data from databases. One popular tool is the UNION clause. In this article, we will delve into what the UNION clause is, its benefits, and how to use it effectively in MySQL.

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