Although there is no official software release for MySQL 8.0 as of yet, most insiders believe that it’s likely to arrive sometime in 2018. In the meantime, Oracle has officially announced a tantalizing list of over two hundred new features! We recently covered Replication Performance Enhancements. Today’s blog will cover some of the other exciting enhancements we can expect when the production release of MySQL 8 hits the market.
New Database Roles
A role is a named collection of privileges that define what a user can and cannot do within a database. Roles play a vital part of database security by limiting who can connect to the server, access the database, or even access individual database objects and data.
Although prior to version 8, MySQL did provide a set of Privileges and Administrative Roles, the up-coming release will also support a set of flexible and properly …
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