There is a special kind of boredom that only database people know. The kind where you stare at a server humming along and think, surely there is something here I can tune. Good news: there is....
February 1, 2026
In the last few years there have been several examples of major service problems affecting businesses data: outages causing data inconsistencies; unavailability or data loss, and worldwide cyberattack...
September 20, 2019
I was recently asked a question by mail about MySQL Lossless Semi-Synchronous Replication. As I think the answer could benefit many people, I am answering it in a blog post. The answer brings us to th...
August 23, 2018
MariaDB 10.3 is now generally available (10.3.7 was released GA on 2018-05-25). The article What’s New in MariaDB Server 10.3 by the MariaDB Corporation lists three key improvements in 10.3: temporal ...
June 28, 2018
