The OpenTelemetry project is an open-source, vendor-neutral observability framework, providing a common observability standard. It enables users to instrument their applications in order to export observability data: traces, metrics, and logs, enabling increased granularity of debugging and testing. MySQL Connector/J now supports producing observability data, baked into the driver code, offering a more comprehensive and tightly integrated solution with the MySQL Enterprise Server.

This is the call for participation for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom. The Devroom will be held on February 2 (Sunday), 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1, 2024.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in
Brussels.

The MySQL Devroom aims to provide a dedicated space for presentations covering the most popular open source database and celebrate the 30th anniversary of MySQL.

Key dates

• Proposals can be submitted by October the 30th, 2024
• Submission deadline: 1st December 2024 Brussels time
• Announcement of the selection …

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom. The Devroom will be held on February 2 (Sunday), 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1, 2024. FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, […]

In IRC libera:#mysql somebody asked about the performance of SHOW TABLES LIKE 'name' in MySQL 8.0, which was slow for them, but fast in 5.7. They pointed to a forum article from 2022

that had a similar problem with a select-statement on I_S.TABLES.

Both cases had in common a large number of tables in a single schema. The person in IRC had around 40k tables, the person in the forum article 500k tables.

I wrote about the Million Challenge

in 2021, but was unable to follow through for personal reasons. This question prompted me to pick this up.

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Account password rotation is often a regulatory requirement. For that very reason, MySQL allows you to have multiple passwords on a single account.

I have written about this in Rotating Accounts or Passwords?

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Of course, if something is a regulatory requirement, you also need to prove that you are meeting it.

So Percona has a nice article Tracking Dual Passwords in MySQL

which shows how can (not) track dual password usage.

While it is somewhat possible to generate a report that shows you which accounts have dual passwords, other things are hard. Finding out which accounts have used what password last, or if an old account password is still being used (and from what machine) is either painful or …

Oct 2024 Meetups Recap

This blog post describes work that landed in MySQL v9.0 and implements generic mechanism to attach key/value attributes to a global system variable, used to improve error messages related to "offline mode".

MySQL Enterprise Edition enables financial services organizations to thrive in a complex and ever-changing environment. By harnessing its capabilities, these institutions can modernize their operations, protect their data, and unlock new opportunities for growth. Modernize your applications and embrace the future of financial services with MySQL Enterprise Edition.

Learn how to enable TLS in MySQL NDB Cluster 8.4 with MySQL NDB Cluster Manager 8.4