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
In this post, I provide an illustration of how to use Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) tool to set up external dictionaries in MySQL to support ClickHouse. Although I use MySQL in this example, you can ...
August 2, 2018
Amazon RDS for MySQL offers the option to automate minor version upgrades using the minor version upgrade policy, a property that lets you decide if Amazon is allowed to perform the upgrades on your b...
July 10, 2018
MariaDB 10.3 is now generally available (10.3.7 was released GA on 2018-05-25). The article Whatβs New in MariaDB Server 10.3 by the MariaDB Corporation lists three key improvements in 10.3: temporal ...
June 28, 2018
Modern applications often feature the use of data in many different languages. This is often true even of applications that only offer a user facing interface in a single language. Many users may, for...
June 12, 2018
Since summer 2017, Amazon RDS supports encryption at rest using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for db.t2.small and db.t2.medium database instances, making the feature now available to virtually ever...
June 8, 2018