You know what time it is, right? Yep, it is time for OpenLampTech issue #25. There are several great reads in this week’s newsletter for PHP/MySQL developers. Enjoy them at your leisure and share the publication with other’s who will like the content as well…

The Newsletter for PHP and MySQL Developers

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Ready for some PHP/MySQL content. Here you are!

In OpenLampTech issue #25, visit these article topics:

• MySQL SHOW command
• MySQL data types
• PHP data types
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I’m always updating VMs, and I was gratified to notice that there’s a Fedora arm64 ISO. If you’re interested in it, you can download the Live Workstation from here or the Fedora Server from here.

Unfortunately, I only have macOS running on i7 and i9 Intel Processors. It would be great to hear back how it goes for somebody one of the new Apple M1 chip.

I typically install the workstation version because it meets my needs to run MySQL and other native Linux development tools. However, the server version is also available. Fedora is a wonderful option, as a small footprint for testing things on my MacBookPro.

In this blog post, we will show you a step-by-step guide on how to install and set up a MySQL server both manually on the Ubuntu 20.04 operating system, as well as by using ScaleGrid’s managed database service. In the following sections of this tutorial, we will help you through every step to successfully set […]

I recently took some time to explore the MySQL GROUP BY WITH ROLLUP modifier. As a self-starter, I’m always unknowingly studying SQL concepts that I soon need for a query requirement. Call it luck or premonition, doesn’t matter to me. I’ll take these small wins thanks to my curiosity…

The Newsletter for PHP and MySQL Developers

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I went for a deep dive into the WITH ROLLUP GROUP BY modifier over on the OpenLampTech publication page.

Read the article, …

Good books on MySQL for beginners are rare and excellent ones are even rarer. I often get requests from novices starting with MySQL or intermediates looking to level up on recommendations on books targeted at their level. The MySQL Workshop (Amazon link) by Thomas Pettit and Scott Cosentino is a must buy for those two groups, or those of us who would like a handy reference.

This is a great book and I recommend getting a copy regardless of your MySQL expertise.

The Basics

At seven hundred pages, this book has a wide scope that starts with background concepts like data normalization, proceeds into creating databases, SQL, and administration. And there are sections on programming with Node.js, working with Microsoft applications, loading data, DBA tasks, and logical backups. There are exercises at the end of …

Wow! This is the 6-month issue of the OpenLampTech newsletter. I’ve learned so much during this time in creating the newsletter for PHP/MySQL developers. Here’s to many more months of publishing! Enjoy this week’s articles!

The Newsletter for PHP and MySQL Developers

Receive a copy of my ebook, “10 MySQL Tips For Everyone”, absolutely free when you subscribe to the OpenLampTech newsletter.

I hope you are in your comfy place and ready for a great read because this week’s OpenLampTech issue is full of great content.

We are looking at blog posts on:

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When it’s time for a new MySQL release, it’s also time to thank our contributors !

Released on April 26th, MySQL 8.0.29 contains several contributions from our awesome Community and on behalf of the entire MySQL Team, I would like to thank you all !

This new releases contains patches from Vilnis Termanis, Luke Weber, Meik Milevczik, Song Zhibai, Zheng Lai, Øystein Grøvlen, Facebook, Biran Yue, Hope Lee, Rahul Malik, Christopher Chavez, Chen Yi, Ning PeiPei, Jianjian Song, Jack Wotherspon and Bin Wang.

Once again, thank you all for your great contributions and to the company you are working for.

Here is the list of the above contributions and related bugs:

Clients / Connectors

• #81519 Connector/Python: Guarantee file closing of input files in optionfiles module – Vilnis Termanis
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In the previous blog, we have gone through about network-level security in RDS. In this blog, we will see about the Database level security in RDS.

After network-level restriction to host, we can’t allow a user to connect to the database from anywhere over the internet. We need to restrict user access at the Database level as well. Need to create a user with a restricted host along with a strong password to avoid cracking of password. In RDS we have a special feature named Identity and Access Management (IAM).

We need to monitor the user activity as well in the Database. Because the user may wrongly execute the query in the server which leads to data loss or production outage. The user activity has to be monitored as per the compliances. We can achieve this by enabling the audit log in the RDS.

By …

We had an interesting set of questions regarding the REGEXP comparison operator in MySQL today in both sections of Database Design and Development. They wanted to know the default behavior.

For example, we built a little movie table so that we didn’t change their default sakila example database. The movie table was like this:

CREATE TABLE movie
( movie_id     int unsigned primary key auto_increment
, movie_title  varchar(60)) auto_increment=1001;

Then, I inserted the following rows:

INSERT INTO movie 
( movie_title )
VALUES
 ('The King and I')
,('I')
,('The I Inside')
,('I am Legend');

Querying all results with this query:

SELECT * FROM movie;

It returns the following results:

+----------+----------------+
| movie_id | movie_title    |
+----------+----------------+
|     1001 | The King and I |
|     1002 | I              |
|     1003 | The I Inside   |
|     1004 | I am Legend …

Amazon RDS is an easy-to-set up AWS-managed database service. In this guide, we will see how to create a read replica of a MySql RDS database instance.