by Ananias Tsalouchidis | Apr 1, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, ProxySQL
ProxySQL recently released version 2.6.0, and going through the release notes, I focused on the following:Added support for caching_sha2_password!This is great news for the community! The caching_sha2_password authentication method for frontend connections is now... by Ananias Tsalouchidis | Oct 10, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Performing an operation is always challenging when dealing with K8s.When on-prem or DBaaS like RDS or Cloud SQL, it is relatively straightforward to apply a change. You can perform a DIRECT ALTER, use a tool such as pt-osc, or even, for certain cases where async... by Ananias Tsalouchidis | Jul 1, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, ProxySQL
This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023.Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I... by Ananias Tsalouchidis | Mar 30, 2020 | Benchmarks, Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
More and more people are nowadays thinking of cloud migration. The question of “Which cloud provider performs better for my MySQL workload?” is really common but cannot always be easily answered. However, there are ways to come up with an answer. This... by Ananias Tsalouchidis | Jan 7, 2020 | MySQL, Security
The Case Securing MySQL is always a challenge. There are general best practices that can be followed for securing your installation, but the more complex setup you have the more likely you are to face some issues which can be difficult to troubleshoot.We’ve... by Ananias Tsalouchidis | Mar 13, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at how to navigate some of the complexities of multi-source GTID replication.GTID replication is often a real challenge for DBAs, especially if this has to do with multi-source GTID replication. A while back, I came across a... by Ananias Tsalouchidis | Feb 7, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, ProxySQL
In this blog post, I’ll present the ProxySQL query cache functionality. This is a query caching mechanism on top of ProxySQL. As there are already many how-tos regarding the ProxySQL prerequisites and installation process, we are going to skip these steps. For...