(Giuseppe Maxia) Up to now, the way of updating dbdeployer was the same as installing it for the first time, i.e. looking at the releases page, downloading the binaries for your operating system, unpacking it and finally replacing the existing binaries.

(Bhuvanesh R) This title may be suitable for the new age MySQL Users. Because in 5.7 onwards its already supported to enable GTID online.

(Dave Stokes) Earlier I wrote about check constraints when MySQL 8.0.16 was released. But this week I noticed two different folks having similar problems with them. And sadly it is ‘pilot error’.

(Georgi Kodinov) One of the perks of working on MySQL is that the code can compile (and has been compiled) on pretty much all of the modern (and no so modern) C/C++ compilers and all the modern OSes.

(Michael McLaughlin) While building my student image on Fedora 30, I installed the MySQL PHP Connector (php-mysqlndrp) but neglected to install the Python Connector.

(Shinguz) Since version 2.1.0 the FromDual Recovery Manager (rman) for MariaDB and MySQL has also a progress indicator for the restore of logical backups made with mysqldump.

(Sri Sakthivel) We are well aware that MySQL Group Replication is one of the faster evolving clustering Technology for MySQL. Flow Control plays a key factor in Group Replication performance and data integrity.

(Shinguz) Recently we had a consulting engagement where we had to help the customer to migrate from latin1 Character Set to utf8mb4 Character Set.

(Michael McLaughlin) While updating my class image to Fedora 30, I noticed that it installed the Akonadi Server. The documentation on the Akonadi server lacked some straightforward documentation.

(Frederic Descamps) Answering this question is not easy. Like always, the best response is “it depends” !