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How to Install the Latest MySQL 8 on Debian 10
MySQL is the most widely used open-source database management system used to keep and retrieve data for a broad variety of famous applications. In Debian 10, MariaDB comes with by default as a drop-in...
SQL Buddy – A Web Based MySQL Administration Tool
SQL Buddy is an open source web-based tool was written in PHP language that intended to manage SQLite and MySQL administration via web browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE+ (Internet Explorer). SQL Buddy …
How to Reset Root Password in MySQL 8.0
In an unfortunate event of forgetting or losing your MySQL root password, you will surely need a way to recover it somehow. What we need to know is that the password is stored in the …
How to Transfer All MySQL Databases From Old to New Server
Transferring or Migrating a MySQL/MariaDB database between servers usually takes only few easy steps, but data transfer can take some time depending on the volume of data you would like to transfer. In this article, …
Sharding writes with MySQL and increment offsets
TL;DR we shard writes and avoid conflicts using an increment offset on PKs each data center contains local write servers we use multi-source replication on read servers so they contain all the data from all …
How to Install Latest MySQL 8.0 on RHEL/CentOS and Fedora
MySQL is an open source free relational database management system (RDBMS) released under GNU (General Public License). It is used to run multiple databases on any single server by providing multi-user access to each created …
How to Monitor MySQL/MariaDB Databases using Netdata on CentOS 7
Netdata is a free open source, simple and scalable, real-time system performance and health monitoring application for Unix-like systems such as Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS. It gathers various metrics and visualizes them, allowing you to …
How to Install MySQL 8.0 in Ubuntu 18.04
MySQL community server is a free open source, popular and cross-platform database management system. It supports both SQL and NoSQL, and has a pluggable storage engine architecture. Additionally, it also comes with multiple database connectors …
Mytop – A Useful Tool for Monitoring MySQL/MariaDB Performance in Linux
Mytop is an open source and free monitoring program for MySQL and MariaDB databases was written by Jeremy Zawodny using Perl language. It is much similar in look and feel of the most famous Linux …
How to Change Default MySQL/MariaDB Port in Linux
In this guide we’ll learn how to change the default port that MySQL/MariaDB database binds in CentOS 7 and Debian-based Linux distributions. The default port that MySQL database server is running under Linux and Unix …
How to Check MySQL Database Size in Linux
by Aaron Kili | Published: December 18, 2017 | Last Updated: December 18, 2017 In this article, I will show you how to check the size of MySQL/MariaDB databases and tables via the MySQL shell. …
Being a Good Open Source Community Member: Why we hesitated on MySQL 5.7
The open source community is great, largely because it is powered by the passion of its members. Much of that passion is rooted in Doing What’s Right™*, but often there are lengthy discussions about what …
How to Reset WordPress Admin Password via MySQL Command Prompt
Sometimes, a WordPress user, with one of the following capabilities, such as administrator, editor, author, contributor or subscriber, forgets its login credentials, especially the password. WordPress password can be easily changed via “Lost password” WordPress …
12 MySQL/MariaDB Security Best Practices for Linux
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database system and MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) is the world’s fastest growing open source database system. After installing MySQL server, it is insecure in it’s default …
12 MySQL/MariaDB Security Best Practices for Linux
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database system and MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) is the world’s fastest growing open source database system. After installing MySQL server, it is insecure in it’s default …
How to Test PHP MySQL Database Connection Using Script
by Aaron Kili | Published: August 9, 2017 | Last Updated: April 10, 2018 MySQL is a popular database management system while PHP is a server-side scripting language suitable for web development; together with Apache …
MyCLI – A MySQL/MariaDB Client with Auto-completion and Syntax-highlighting
MyCLI is an easy-to-use command line (CLI) interface for the popular database management systems: MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. It is built using prompt_toolkit and requires Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, …
How to Change a Default MySQL/MariaDB Data Directory in Linux
After installing the components of a LAMP stack on a CentOS/RHEL 7 server, there are a couple of things you may want to do. Some of them have to do with increasing the security of …
How to Change Root Password of MySQL or MariaDB in Linux
If you’re installing MySQL or MariaDB in Linux for the first time, chances are you will be executing mysql_secure_installation script to secure your MySQL installation with basic settings. One of these settings is, database root …
How to Reset MySQL or MariaDB Root Password in Linux
If you are setting up a MySQL or MariaDB database server for the first time, chances are you will be running mysql_secure_installation soon afterwards to implement basic security settings. One of these settings is the …