After taking the week of Christmas off, OpenLamp.tech – the newsletter for PHP/MySQL developers – is back with a massive issue for you this week to close out the month and the year. In this issue, we are covering MySQL metadata in CodeIgniter 4. Continue reading for more information…

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The schedule of the MySQL Devroom 2022 is now published: here.

Thank you to everyone who submitted a talk. As usual we received more submissions than available slots.

In Percona Support we spend a few hours per week doing Labs: short collective projects, not directly related to the tickets. One of our last labs was about to get ready for the winter holiday season which means preparing the tree and decorating it. To do it we used our favorite tools: MySQL, and ASCII art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art). As a result, we created a function that prints into the terminal a New Year Tree (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year_tree) and decorates it with symbols we want. For example, to create a three-level tree, decorated with starts, call the function as follow:

$ mysql ny_tree -e "select ny_tree(3, '*')" --vertical --skip-column-names -s
*************************** 1. row ***************************

   /\
  /__\
  /* \
 /____\
 /  * \
/______\
   ||

Since MySQL supports Unicode you can use any symbol, having it has …

First I want to thank everyone who attended my November 16, 2021 webinar “MySQL Performance for DevOps“. Recording and slides are available on the webinar page.

Here are answers to the questions from participants which I was not able to provide during the webinar.

Q: Hi! We have troubles with DELETE queries. We have to remove some data periodically (like, hourly, daily) and we have short-term server stalls during these DELETEs. Server is running on modern NVMe’s so we wonder why do we have this situation. Those DELETE’s are not so large, like 10 000 – 15 000 records, but tables on which DELETE’s are performed update frequently.

A: I would test if a similar

DELETE

  statement is slow when you run it on …

Anyone working with data is going to encounter date values at some point. Dates are necessary for many reasons. If you’re a PHP/MySQL Developer, you have date function options for both the database and your programming language of choice. In this post, I cover 5 PHP date functions and their (somewhat) MySQL equivalents with examples of each. Continue reading…

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1. PHP: date_format() | MySQL: DATE_FORMAT()
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InnoDB Cluster has been around for what feels like a long time. It is the core platform for MySQL High Availability. InnoDB Cluster NOW extends that core feature into a platform that also enables DR support where multiple Disaster Recovery Regions are capable.

After 17 years with MySQL, I wrote a book: Efficient MySQL Performance.

I’ll make a bold claim: a MySQL book like this has never been written—not even close. The preface explains why this book is unique:

After 17 years with MySQL, I wrote a book: Efficient MySQL Performance.

I’ll make a bold claim: a MySQL book like this has never been written—not even close. The preface explains why this book is unique:

After 17 years with MySQL, I wrote a book: Efficient MySQL Performance.

I’ll make a bold claim: a MySQL book like this has never been written—not even close. The preface explains why this book is unique:

In this blog post, we will compare the performance of performing a backup from a MySQL database using mysqldump, MySQL Shell feature called Instance Dump, mysqlpump, mydumper, and Percona XtraBackup. All these available options are open source and free to use for the entire community.

To start, let’s see the results of the test.

Benchmark Results

The benchmark was run on an …