Monty gave us a quick overview of next generation of MyISAM. It is set to include:
No details of time frame were given for delivery, however development is well underway.
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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