Recently, a friend reached out to me for help after encountering an error while restoring a MySQL dump during an upgrade from MySQL 8.0 to 8.4. The error read: At…
Recently, I encountered a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) server that was rapidly approaching complete disk exhaustion. This post outlines the steps taken to identify the issue and reclaim disk…
This blog is dedicated to MySQL data archiving; we’ll break down from the basics of what data archival is, why it matters, best practices and scenarios. We will also see…
Recently I was asked a question: Why am I getting utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci as the default collation in MySQL 8, despite setting the server to use utf8mb4_general_ci? With the upgrade to MySQL…
AI tools like ChatGPT, GROK, Meta and Gemini are taking off, and as parents, it’s easy to feel the pressure to keep our kids up to speed. The message out…