(Borys Belinsky) Percona is happy to announce the first experimental binary of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 on October 1, 2019. This is a major step for tuning Percona XtraDB Cluster to be more cloud- and user-friendly.

(Krzysztof Ksiazek) MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0 is the new kid on the database block with very interesting new features. Currently it is available only as a part of MariaDB 10.4 but in the future it will work as well with MySQL 5.6, 5.7 and 8.0.

(Erfan Imani) I’ve been away from writing blog posts — the last one was more than two years ago. I decided to write one on this topic, however; I found out that implementing a queue was harder than it should be (in my opinion).

(mortensi) When data and concurrency grow, together with queries complexity, a standard configuration does not fit anymore.

We at MinervaDB provide MySQL and MariaDB Database Security Audit (Please read about our Security Practice at MinervaDB Consulting Page) for our customers globally, We don’t go easy with password management .. Weaker passwords are serious security threats and we highly recommend stronger passwords.

(Jaime Crespo) In the last few years there have been several examples of major service problems affecting businesses data: outages causing data inconsistencies; unavailability or data loss, and worldwide cyberattacks encrypting your files and asking for a ransom.

(mortensi) If you need to do bulk importing into InnoDB Cluster, it is certainly possible to do so by using any of:

(Dave Stokes) Dear Dave, My DBA told me that an account I use to talk to my MySQL database instance has TWO passwords! How does that happen? Do I have to provide both passwords every time?

(Robert Agar) A constant in the computing world is that it is always evolving and offering new challenges and opportunities. Software solutions come and go with some becoming staples in the business community while others barely cause a ripple as they disappear into the ether.

(Jesper Krogh) Oracle announced this week at Oracle OpenWorld that it has introduced a new cloud offer called Oracle Cloud Free Tier. As the name suggest, it allows you to run a few limited instances in Oracle Cloud for free.