dasini.net – Diary of a MySQL expert

In the world of the Databases, one of the most important value that we are all trying to achieve is High Availability. Not to loose our valuable data or in case one server fails to always have another to step in and take control.

So, it is critical to have along with our primary database, other identical instances, the replicas.

On this blog post, we will see the most famous ways to set up our replication.

Cloud backup is a strategy increasingly used in organizations. Send copies of your data to the cloud, can help you to prevent a devastating IT crisis and ensure business continuity.

Currently, MySQL Enterprise Backup supports the following types of cloud storage services:

– Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage

– OpenStack Swift or compatible object storage services

– Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) or compatible storage service

Presentation of some of the new features of MySQL 8.0.22 released on October 19th, 2020.

Since MySQL 8.0.22 there is a mechanism in asynchronous replication that makes the receiver automatically try to re-establish an asynchronous replication connection to another sender, in case the current connection gets interrupted due to the failure of the current sender.

I’ve made a short video that will give you tips and tricks to successfully upgrade to MySQL 8

Presentation of some of the new features of MySQL 8.0.21 released on July 13th, 2020.

Presentation of some of the new features of MySQL 8.0.20 released on April 27th, 2020.

Dual-password capability makes it possible to seamlessly perform credential changes without downtime.

DBA can configure user accounts such that too many consecutive login failures cause temporary account locking.

MySQL 8.0 has introduced an optional behavior that authorize users to change their password only if they could provide the current password.