This blog post is the third part of the series of blogs about indexes in MySQL. In the second part of the blog post series about MySQL indexes, we covered indexes and storage engines and touched upon some...

This blog post is the second part of the series of blogs about indexes in MySQL. In the first part of the blog post series about MySQL indexes, we have covered quite many things, including what...

Indexes in MySQL are a very complex beast. We have covered MySQL indexes in the past, but we have never taken a deeper dive into them - we will do that in these series of...

After upgrading to ClusterControl 1.8.2, you should get the following notification banner: What's up with that? It is a depreciation notice of the current user management system in favor of the new user management system...

In a previous blog, we wrote about about the architecture of  hybrid cloud databases. Having database instances in different datacenters sounds all good, but how do you manage all that? How do you know if...

Ensuring the database is healthy is one of the critical and important things that a database administrator must do. If we neglect the maintenance of the database, there is a higher probability that we run...

Monitoring your database schema changes in MySQL/MariaDB provides a huge help as it saves time analyzing your database growth, table definition changes, data size, index size, or row size. For MySQL/MariaDB, running a query referencing...

Automation equals speed - there is no discussion about it. Automation also increases reliability and reduces the error rate. Those feats are important in pretty much every kind of industry, but they are crucial for...

Organizations are making use of infrastructure in the cloud because it offers speed, flexibility, and scalability. You can imagine if we can spin up a new database instance with just a click, and it takes...

Testing is a time-consuming task, but it is a must before any upgrade process on any technology. Depending on the type of upgrade, it could be harder or easier, but it is always necessary if...

Automation is in vogue these days. Technology evolves quickly, and more people are contributing to existing available third party automation software platforms. As the season of fast-paced deployments, automation is now necessary and considered as...

Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and being left out until some unwanted events occur to...