We are glad to announce the release of the updated dbForge tools for MySQL. To ensure that the users of our MySQL tools can work with the most up-to-date database engines, we keep expanding connectivity options for our MySQL management tool. For this release, we have implemented support for the latest MariaDB 10.4. in  the […]

We are thrilled to inform our MySQL users that fresh and new dbForge Studio for MySQL, v8.1 has been just rolled out! To ensure that the users of dbForge Studio for MySQL can work with the most up-to-date database engines, we keep expanding connectivity options for our MySQL management tool. In this version, we have […]

We know that MySQL query cache is deprecated as of MySQL 5.7.20 and removed in MySQL 8.0 and It has been recommended to use ProxySQL (or other) external query cache instead.

In this blog post, we’ll present the ProxySQL query cache functionality and how does it help us.

How to setup ProxySQL between client and database servers is out of the scope of this article.

If you are looking for other articles on ProxySQL Series :

• MySQL replication Read-Write Split up
• Replication Switchover using Proxysql And …

Introduction In this article, we will show how to perform routine data export from multiple files by a certain mask with help of the Data Import functionality of dbForge Studio for MySQL and how to schedule the recurring execution of the import with Microsoft Task Scheduler. Scenario Suppose, we need to simultaneously import multiple daily […]

Partitioning is a way of splitting the actual data down into separate .ibd files (data compartments) in the file system based on the defined ranges using the partitioning key. It can help us with maintaining the enormous amount of data in different partitions without much hassle.

In this blog post, we are going to see how to manage table partitioning using yahoo partition manager.

Needs for partitioning:

• Enhanced data retrieval ( reduced IO ) with smaller B+Tree.
• Easy Archival or Purge by dropping or truncate  of partition
• Lesser fragmentation, hence avoiding frequent table optimization.

Partitions management activity like adding/Dropping partition is made easy and automated by …

Schema change is one of the crucial tasks in MySQL with huge tables. Schema change can cause locks.

What is gh-ost?

                         gh-ost is a triggerless online schema change for MySQL by Github Engineering .It produces light workload on the master during the schema changes . We need online schema change to alter a table without downtime (locking) in production.pt-online schema change is the most widely used tool for making changes in the tables.gh-ost is just an alternative to pt-online schema change.

Why we have to use gh-ost?

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We are excited to inform our users that we have released new versions of dbForge Schema Compare for MySQL, dbForge Data Compare for MySQL, dbForge Query Builder for MySQL, dbForge Data Generator for MySQL, and dbForge Documenter for MySQL. We have introduced brand new connectivity features, including support for the latest MySQL Server, v8.0, and […]

We would like to take this moment to thank the Oracle company for continuous development of the popular MySQL database! As you all might know, Oracle has recently released  MySQL Server, v8.0. In its turn, Devart decided to get a move on and release the new dbForge Studio for MySQL, 8.0! Support for MySQL Server […]

Please join Percona’s MySQL Database Administrator, Brad Mickel as he presents How to Analyze and Tune MySQL Queries for Better Performance on Thursday, June 21st, 2018, at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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Query performance is essential in making any application successful. In order to finely tune your queries you first need to understand how MySQL executes them, and what tools are available to help identify problems.

In this session you will learn:

1. The common tools for researching problem queries
2. What an Index is, and why you should use one
3. Index limitations
4. When to rewrite the …

The schema changes in production can cause lock at time and makes the slave to lag. It is more tedious and troublesome with PXC ( Galera ) cluster which can be made smoother with Percona online schema change.

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