Over the years, MySQL has used three different mechanisms for securing passwords both for storage and for transmission across networks. This blog post aims to provide a brief history of the various mechanisms and highlight reasons to migrate accounts to use the sha256_password mechanism introduced in MySQL Server 5.6.…
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What Makes the MySQL Audit Plugin API Special?
Why Should I Be Reading This?
To better understand how the MySQL Server functions, how to monitor the relevant server events, and find out what’s new in MySQL 5.7.8.
What’s Special About the Audit Plugin API?
Picking the right API for your new plugin is probably the most important design decision a plugin author will need to make.…
The Query Rewrite Plugins
Why Query Rewrites?
Now that the cost model project is progressing, most of you are going to notice execution plan changes. In the vast majority of the cases, the changes will be for the better, and some bugs with a long history will finally be closed.…