Learn how Multi-Valued Indexing in MySQL 8.0 can enhance query performance by efficiently indexing and querying JSON arrays. Discover the benefits, implementation steps, and considerations for optimizing your MySQL database.

1. Multi-Valued Indexing in MySQL 8.0
2. Understanding Multi-Valued Indexes and their benefits
3. Creating Multi-Valued Indexes in MySQL …

Learn how to seamlessly add a new node to MySQL Group Replication from a backup. Scale your cluster, save time, and efficiently manage data updates and recoveries.

1. Hot Physical backup approach
2. Clone plugin approach
3. Logical backup approach

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Learn how the parallel index rebuild feature in MySQL 8.0.31 improves performance by optimizing index and column additions. Explore the multithreaded insert phase, sort index build process, and system configurations for enhanced efficiency.

1. Understanding Sorted Index Build
   1. When does InnoDB use a sort index build approach?
2. Phases of Sort …

Discover how to troubleshoot a MySQL replica IO thread stuck in a connecting state. Learn about the replication architecture, security group rules for AWS EC2 instances, and how to address common issues like network restrictions and bind address configuration.

MySQL is a powerful database management and a widely used cloud database service. One of its key features is the ability to create replicas of a master database to improve its availability and scalability. However, at times the IO thread in a MySQL replica may get stuck in a connecting state, which can cause replication issues and affect the overall data consistency …

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 20th edition of MyWebinar. We hope that our time together helped to elevate and seam your work to perfection. We’re committed to giving back to the opensource database community in the coming days by presenting more LIVE events.

Monu Mahto, Database Consultant from Mydbops was successful in making this event more interactive, engaging, and, most importantly, productive for the audience. Thank you for your continuous contribution to the opensource community.

Topic: MySQL Data Encryption at Rest

Date: 25th of March, 2023

Time: 11 AM IST

The most important key takeaways are:

What is Data-at-rest Encryption ?

Data at rest means all inactive data stored on disk. …

The End-of-Life (EOL) date for MySQL 5.7 is scheduled for October 2023, which means that after that date, MySQL 5.7 will no longer receive updates, bug fixes, or security patches. This does not mean that MySQL 5.7 will stop working after the EOL date, but it does mean that any issues or vulnerabilities discovered after that date will not be addressed, This can leave your database at risk of security breaches or performance issues. AWS RDS support for MySQL will also hold good only till October 2023.

To avoid these potential issues, it is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of MySQL before the EOL date for MySQL 5.7. Upgrading to a newer version such as MySQL 8 …

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 19th edition of MyWebinar. We hope that our time together helped to elevate and seam your work to perfection. We’re committed to giving back to the opensource database community in the coming days by presenting more LIVE events.

Recently, Mydbops conducted a webinar on the top 10 features of MySQL 8. MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used open-source relational database management systems. With every new version, MySQL brings new features and enhancements that make it more reliable, secure, and efficient. In this blog, we will wrap up the top 10 features of MySQL 8 discussed in the webinar by Mydbops.

Vinoth Kanna, co-Founder from  …

The Primary key is like the hero of a row, which has more beneficial features in the table while performing any task on the table.

The DBA knows the importance of the primary key in the table and how to handle it.

1. Notable features of having a primary key:
2. Requirements:
3. Enabling GIPK:
4. Handling GIPK:
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We’re ecstatic and energised about the prospect of sowing seeds of knowledge in our opensource database community.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 17th edition of MyWebinar. We hope that our time together helped to elevate and seam your work to perfection. We’re committed to giving back to the opensource database community in the coming days by presenting more LIVE events.

Maha Lakshmi Ganapathineedi from Mydbops was successful in making this event more interactive, engaging, and, most importantly, productive for the audience. Thank you for your continuous contribution to the opensource community.

Topic: Redo …

MySQL 8.0.30 was released on 26-07-2022. It has a good list of features.

• Generated Invisible Primary Key
• Dynamic Redo log Sizing
• Instruments to monitor group replication memory
• Support for Ubuntu 22.04

A most notable feature for Database Administrators and database reliability engineers is Dynamic redo logging.

The more widely adopted open-source backup tool is Xtrabackup. The change in the redo log design has affected this hot backup tool.

2022-10-04T18:40:08.211998+05:30 0 [Note] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] recognized server arguments: --datadir=/var/lib/mysql 
2022-10-04T18:40:08.212264+05:30 0 [Note] [MY-011825] [Xtrabackup] recognized client arguments: …