Overview Some MySQL distribution packages, such as the generic Linux build, bundle an OpenSSL dependency within the same .tar.gz archive. With the new MySQL 8.0.46, 8.4.9 and 9.7.0 releases, we are upgrading those bundled packages from using OpenSSL 3.0 to the new OpenSSL 3.5 LTS branch. Native OS packages, such as .rpm and .deb, continue […]

When you create a general tablespace in MySQL 8.0, you can choose the directory where the associated datafile is created.

CREATE TABLESPACE tablespace_name ADD DATAFILE ‘/my/table/space/dir’;

However, that directory must be known to InnoDB. Known directories are defined by the following settings: datadir,  innodb_data_home_dir,  innodb_undo_directory  &  innodb_directories.…

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After upgrading the server many users start it with an unchanged config file only to find some deprecated options that they were using are no longer supported by the later server version, which causes the upgraded server to shutdown. In other cases modifying the server configuration file results in the server refusing to start when an invalid name is mistakenly entered in the configuration file.…

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As of 8.0.16, the mysql_upgrade binary is deprecated, but its functionality is moved into the server. Let’s call this functionality the “server upgrade”. This is added alongside the Data Dictionary upgrade (DD Upgrade), which is a process to update the data dictionary table definitions.…

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SQL vs. NoSQL

As any database administrator knows, the first question you have to ask yourself is whether to use a SQL or NoSQL database for your application. …

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Are they syntactically similar? Where do these two languages differ? Why would I use one over the other?

MariaDB 10.3 is on the path of gradually diverging from MySQL 8.0. One obvious example is the internal data dictionary currently under development for MySQL 8.0. This is a major change to the way metadata is stored and used within the server: MariaDB doesn’t have an equivalent feature. Implementing this feature could mark the end of datafile-level compatibility between MySQL and MariaDB.

There are also non-technical …

In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to set a replication from MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 5.7. There are some situations that having this configuration might help. For example, in the case of a MySQL upgrade, it can be useful to have a master that is using a newer version of MySQL to an older version slave as a rollback plan. Another example is in the case of upgrading a master x master replication topology.

Officially, replication is only supported between consecutive major MySQL versions, and only from a lower version master to a higher version slave. Here is an example of a supported scenario:

5.7 master –> 8.0 slave

while the opposite is not supported:

8.0 master –> 5.7 slave

In this blog post, I’ll walk through how to overcome the …

The big change from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 when it comes to spatial data, is the support for multiple spatial reference systems and geographic computations. This means that the SRIDs of geometries actually have meaning and affect computations. In 5.7 and earlier, however, the SRIDs are ignored, and all computations are Cartesian.…

There are many changes to spatial functions in MySQL 8.0:

• Old aliases for functions have been removed (after being deprecated in 5.7)
• Functions that don’t support geographic computations raise errors if called with geographic data in their arguments
• Many functions support geographic computations

The first two are failing cases.…

In my previous blog post, I had described the steps to perform an in-place upgrade for upgrading from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8.0. In this blog post, I will discuss about the considerations that needs to be taken into account while upgrading to MySQL 8.0

The general in-place upgrade requirement is that MySQL 8.0 will understand the disk image produced by MySQL 5.7. …