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Looking to put an end to any lingering concerns about the scalability of its open source database, Oracle today announced the general availability of an update to MySQL that is not only substantially ...

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When non-DBAs think about what it is that a DBA does, performance monitoring and tuning are usually the first tasks that come to mind. This should not be surprising. Almost anyone who has come in ...

Schema design, indexes, queries, configs, I/O... what could go wrong? Follow these 10 essential tips to keep your MySQL servers humming. MySQL is the world’s most widely used open source database, and ...

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