Contrary to my earlier April Fool’s Stuck – No country to call home I’m alive and well in Hamburg Germany with my new job.
Thanks for those concerned MySQL souls that fell pray to my “Evil Genius” as Farhan called it.
Looking forward to seeing people at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara in two weeks.
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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