OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight and open-source version of the LiteSpeed Server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. It supports Apache Rewrite rules, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, and TLS v1.3 and QUIC protocols. This tutorial will show you how to install an OpenLiteSpeed Server on Ubuntu 24.04.

MySQL Shell offer many features to make life easier for DBAs and developers. In this post we discuss how to check if a database instance has any compatibility issues in upgrading to a newer versions of MySQL.

Over the last few years, I have become quite smitten with MySQL Shell. For those who may not be familiar with MySQL Shell, it is a new(ish) command line interface (CLI) for connecting to and managing MySQL instances. During a recent episode of Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks, Fred and I talked to Miguel Araujo about many of the helpful […]

MySQL Shell offer many features to make life easier for DBAs and developers. In this post we discuss how to create and manage sandbox instances of MySQL on your local system.

In this blog, we introduce a Quick Start solution for deploying WordPress on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Discover how this solution leverages OCI's automation and MySQL HeatWave Database to effortlessly deploy a fully functional WordPress instance.

The latest Episode of MySQL Shorts is now available! Check out Episode 65 on the MySQL YouTube Channel to learn how to return tabular data as JSON array.

Episode #65 of MySQL Shorts in now available!

Over the last few years, I have become quite smitten with MySQL Shell. For those who may not be familiar with MySQL Shell, it is a new(ish) command line interface (CLI) for connecting to and managing MySQL instances. During a recent episode of Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks, Fred and I talked to Miguel Araujo about many of the helpful […]

Some years ago, I wrote an article on connecting to MySQL 8.0 using the default authentication plugin (caching_sha2_password) with Perl. I also provided Perl-DBD-MySQL packages for EL7.

Somebody recently left a comment as he was looking for a perl-DBD-MySQL driver compatible with the caching_sha2_password for Rocky Linux 8 (EL8 or OL8 compatible).

Therefore, I build two new packages supporting the latest perl-DBD-MySQL driver, version 5.005.

The difference is related to the version of libmysql they are linked to.

libmysql.so.21 for MySQL 8.0 and libmysql.so.24 for MySQL 8.4 LTS:

MySQL 8.0

$ rpm -qf …

Replication being slow—replication lag—is a common complaint, but MySQL replication is actually really fast. Let’s run a controlled experiment and peek inside the Performance Schema binary logs to see why.