Google Cloud SQL for MySQL is a fully-managed database service that helps you set up, maintain, manage, and administer your MySQL relational databases on Google Cloud Platform. However, there are differences between Cloud SQL and...

With containers, there are a couple of ways that you can backup and restore your data. The most typical way to do data backups for databases in container environments is by creating database dumps. Unlike...

Amazon Web Services is a technology giant, especially when it comes to pioneering itself in top-of-the-line cloud computing services. Its fully managed services products (Amazon RDS) is one of a kind. But then again, while...

Large organizations that are using MySQL or MariaDB database platforms are often faced with a need to perform a database migration from one place to another. Regardless of the platform, type of database software (such...

Migrating your database to a new datacenter can be a high-risk and time-consuming process. A database contains state, and can be much harder to migrate as compared to web servers, queues or cache servers. In...

MySQL 8.0 has been available for a while and Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 has also been available for some time as well. Also, MySQL 5.6 is coming up to its End-of-Life and people using PXC...

There are different reasons for upgrading your databases. It could be to apply security fixes, to use new features, solve compatibility issues, or just to keep your system up-to-date. This upgrade can be a major...

Percona XtraDB Cluster based on MySQL 8.0 has been out there for some time, so it’s not surprising more and more people are attempting to migrate into it. You may wonder how to approach this...

MySQL 8.0 has been with us for quite some time already; and, although deprecated since October 2023 there are those still using MySQL 5.7. In this post, we share some tips and information that'll help...

Having a Load Balancer is always a good option to improve your database environment. It can help you on redirect applications to available database nodes, distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance, or...

The ability to shape the traffic that goes to the database is one of the most important ones. In the past days you had not that much control over it - applications sent the traffic...

When MySQL query optimization is mentioned, indexes are one of the first things that get covered. Today, we will try to see why they are so important. What are Indexes? In general, an index is...