Preface This blog begins by introducing an alternative and optional thread handling mechanism called MySQL Thread Pool, available in the MySQL Enterprise Edition. It then delves into the “Max Transaction Limit” feature that was added to MySQL Thread Pool in MySQL 8.0. The blog shows the recommended MySQL Thread pool configuration and proceeds to compare […]

Last year, in March 2022, our MySQL Operator for Kubernetes became Generally Available. Since then, several new features were added to our operator and along with the release of MySQL Server 8.0.32 comes a new release of our MySQL Operator for Kubernetes 8.0.32-2.0.8.  The goal of the MySQL Operator for Kubernetes is to provide an easy way […]

On January 17 2023, MySQL Server 8.0.32 was released. It is the latest release of our MySQL 8.0 General Availability Release. The new release introduces a few new features alongside with some deprecations, as well as bugfixes and security fixes. Let’s dive into some detail on these new features and changes MySQL Enterprise Optimizer mysql> […]

As a MySQL database administrator, have you ever faced a brute force attack on your database server or been the target of a DDOS-like connection flow on port 3306? If so, you will quickly understand why this plugin distributed with MySQL can be very useful in such situations. Indeed, the connection-control plugin allows the administrator […]

When performing physical backup on system that are heavily used, it can happen that the backup speed cannot keep up with the redo log generation. This can happen when the backup storage is slower than the redo log storage media and this can lead in inconsistency in the generated backup. MySQL Enterprise Backup (aka MEB) […]

For this last technical post of the MySQL Community Advent Calendar 2022, I will explain how to grant privileges to users in MySQL 8.0. This is an important task for anyone who is responsible for managing a MySQL database, as it allows you to control which users have access to which parts of your database. […]

Since MySQL 8.0.30, the Dynamic InnoDB Redo Log is a new feature that allows users to resize the redo log files on the fly without the need for a restart. This is a significant improvement over previous versions of MySQL, where the redo log files had to be manually resized and the database had to […]

More and more people are requesting how they could connect to MySQL without using a password but using a SSL certificate. Known as X509. CA Certificate A CA certificate is a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority (CA). It’s used by clients to verify the SSL certificates sign by this CA. Such certificates is […]

With the latest MySQL release (8.0.31), MySQL adds support for the SQL standard INTERSECT and EXCEPT table operators:    Let’s have a look how to use them. We will use the following table: CREATE TABLE `new` ( `id` int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` varchar(20) DEFAULT NULL, `tacos` int DEFAULT NULL, `sushis` int DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY […]

The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.14 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days. If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is […]