Snooping MySQL passwords with eBPF
Snooping MySQL passwords with eBPF Common sense and Data Security best practices dictate that you should not provide cleartext passwords. However, I often see this exact thing when connecting to…
Stop granting SUPER to your MySQL application users
Stop granting SUPER to your application users Hey y'all, I need to rant a bit about a basic security principle for a minute. Very often when I'm reviewing permissions for…
Basic InnoDB Tuning
Basic InnoDB Tuning MySQL 8.0 innodb_dedicated_server MySQL offers a lot of knobs and levers to tune its behavior, and InnoDB offers a few more. In general, I believe you shouldn't…
MySQL Asynchronous Replication Basics
MySQL Asynchronous Replication Basics As a database administrator, you need to consider failures of hardware when thinking about the availability of your data. This is a basic principle of High…