February 10, 2012

MySQL End Of Life (EOL) Policy

We’ve discussed today how we should implement MySQL Version advisory in mk-audit tool. One obvious questions was to look at the end of life – it is often bad idea to run MySQL versions past end of life as even security bugs may not be fixed in these (though do not get paranoid, if you’re [...]

Multiple column index vs multiple indexes

After my previous post there were questions raised about Index Merge on Multiple Indexes vs Two Column Index efficiency. I mentioned in most cases when query can use both of the ways using multiple column index would be faster but I also went ahead to do some benchmarks today.