I’ve been Plurking more lately rather then Twittering . I’d like to offer to help out at Twitter if I could find the right person to talk to.
I’m no English major, but I do like to ensure my spelling is correct (at least for the bulk of the audience). You see grammar problems on sites, due to the nature of English not being the first language of many people, but one should always check your spelling as per this popup message I got today.
Changing the password of a MySQL account that an application uses was hard before MySQL 8.0. It is easy in MySQL 8.0 and later, thanks to two clauses of ALTER USER: RETAIN CURRENT PASSWORD and DISCARD OLD PASSWORD.
Read moreI recently tracked down a performance problem that turned out not to be in the application, the servers, or the CDN. A corporate TLS-inspecting proxy sat between the users and the site.
Read moreVillageSQL published Access MySQL over MCP with vsql-mcp . The extension serves the Model Context Protocol from inside the database, so an agent talks to MySQL over Streamable HTTP without a sidecar holding a credential.
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