This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

Abstract: Write-ahead logging (WAL) has been widely used to provide transactional atomicity in databases, such as SQLite and MySQL/InnoDB. However, the WAL introduces duplicate writes, where changes ...

innodb-java-reader is a java implementation to access MySQL InnoDB storage engine file directly. With the library or command-line tool, it provides read-only features like examining pages, looking up ...

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A data dictionary is the information and metadata (The metadata includes database name, table name, column data type, and access privileges) about the data objects themselves. The data dictionary ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Quite often in my practice, I see people use varchar fields with a small and limited number of available options. Let ...

Some users have been experiencing the “Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly” error message when they try to start the MySQL server through the XAMPP web server ...

For programmers and data scientists around the globe, MySQL is an essential part of their workflow, as it is one of the most popular database management systems. However, as with any software, MySQL ...

The master branch is based on MySQL 8.0, the 5.7 branch is based on MySQL 5.7 MySQL InnoDB cluster is created on an existing group replication (see mysql/docker-entrypoint.sh for datails) Unlike ...