Thursday, February 27, 2025

Why TLS for MySQL is difficult

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The internet has changed to a place where most protocols like HTTP etc now use secure connections with TLS by default. While both HTTP and ...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Decoding MySQL's GTID_TAGGED_LOG_EVENT

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This is a follow-up for MySQL GTID tags and binlog events , but you don’t need to read that first. One of the recent innovations in MySQL ...
Monday, February 17, 2025

The Potential of Query Attributes in MySQL

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Introduction Query Attributes are a relatively new feature of the MySQL Protocol. This is availble since MySQL 8.0.23. Before Query Attrib...
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Monday, December 2, 2024

MySQL GTID tags and binlog events

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MySQL 8.4 and newer have extended the Global Transaction ID (GTID) functionality with a new “tag” option. Refresher on GTID A GTID is a un...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Release and version management is hard

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In this post I will talk about release management with MySQL as example. Release management has to do with what to put in a release, how oft...
Monday, May 6, 2024

MySQL Protocol: Collations

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This story starts with a pull request for go-mysql to allow setting the collation in auth handshake that I was reviewing. The reason why th...
Monday, November 6, 2023

Notes on Compression in the MySQL Protocol

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The MySQL Protocol is the network protocol that is used between a MySQL server and a client. This is called the “classic” protocol as there ...