ProxySQL is a well known load balancer in MySQL world - it comes with a great set of features that allow you to take control over your traffic and shape it however you see it...

In the previous post about MySQL security, we have covered a range of options that can be used to make your MySQL instance(s) more secure. They included: General MySQL security measures; Controlling access in MySQL;...

Google Cloud SQL is a managed database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. Even if you are new to managed database services, it just takes a few minutes to set up Google Cloud SQL...

Whenever application security is mentioned, people think of securing applications against some of the most frequent attacks such as injection, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, and the like. However, while these attacks are prevalent, knowing...

In this blog post, we are going to look into some key metrics and status when monitoring a Percona Server for MySQL to help us fine-tune the MySQL server configuration for a long run. Just...

Sometimes when searching in a MySQL database you might want to run full-text search queries against character-based data. Today we’re discussing the advantages and disadvantages of such search methods. What are Full-Text Searches in MySQL?...

Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 offers a number of clustering solutions for high availability out-of-the-box: Single-master: Asynchronous replication Semi synchronous replication Multi-master: Group replication InnoDB Cluster (a combination of MySQL Router, MySQL Shell and Percona...

  Oracle recently released MySQL 8.0.22, and this new version came with a new asynchronous connection failover mechanism. It allows a replica to automatically establish an asynchronous replication connection to a new source, in case...

If you have been around in the container world, you would know that it is pretty challenging to adopt a full Kubernetes automation for a clustered database system, which commonly adds a level of complexity...

Why Do You Need To Use an Audit Plugin For Your Database? Auditing in a database doesn't deviate from its meaning as it shares the same connotation i.e. to inspect, examine, and evaluate for such...

Database migrations can impose huge challenges when you consider how to start, what tools to use, and how to achieve a full database migration successfully. Earlier, we have listed the top open source you can...

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service to create and operate relational databases online. With this service, you get to automate time-consuming tasks like hardware configuration, database setup, or patch deployment. Amazon...