I just don’t get this I don not know what the technology is behind the search box at MySQL Documentation but it annoys me when I want to see the syntax of a command and Search can’t find the page, when a dedicated page exists and I’m using the exact syntax of both the command the title of the page. In this example the search was for SHOW WARNINGS .
Google find the page as first link!
Synthetic benchmarks have their place, but I have always preferred working with real data. Not client production data — that stays private — but publicly available datasets that reflect the messy shapes, skewed distributions, and indexing challenges you encounter in the wild.
Read moreI recently had the pleasure of presenting Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7 at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters) is one of the largest open source conferences in Asia, and the community there is always engaged and technically sharp.
Read moreI have just returned from my first DataEngBytes conference in Sydney. Here is a quick summary on my thoughts for the event. I plan to go into more detail on great points from presentations in later posts.
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