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Long live to dbdeployer!
As you know, MySQL-Sandbox and then dbdeployer have always been part of the Swiss Army knife for DBAs trying to evaluate, test, or reproduce issues with a certain version of their database.

The author, Giuseppe Maxia, aka the datacharmer, produced incredible work on these two projects. Unfortunately, Giuseppe decided to archive the project in 2023. Read the announcement.

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https://lefred.be/content/long-live-to-dbdeployer/
#CommunityTool #MariaDB

DBeaver, a solid alternative to MySQL Workbench that works like a charm with MariaDB
You may have noticed that MySQL Workbench has not been actively developed for a long time... You can see the number of open bugs. And the number of commits illustrates this too:

In fact, Workbench has been put out of maintenance mode to add the MySQL HeatWave Migr
https://lefred.be/content/dbeaver-a-solid-alternative-to-mysql-workbench-that-works-like-a-charm-with-mariadb/
#CommunityTool #MariaDB

Perl DBD MySQL for MySQL 8.0 and 8.4 LTS
Some years ago, I wrote an article on connecting to MySQL 8.0 using the default authentication plugin (caching_sha2_password) with Perl. I also provided Perl-DBD-MySQL packages for EL7.

Somebody recently left a comment as he was looking for a perl-DBD-MySQL driver compatible with the caching_sha2_password for Rocky Linux 8 (EL8 or OL8 compat
https://lefred.be/content/perl-dbd-mysql-for-mysql-8-0-and-8-4-lts/
#80 #84 #CommunityTool #MySQL #Perl

Welcome to Dolphie !
There are plenty GUI and Web application used to monitor a MySQL server. But if you are long time MySQL DBA, you might have used (and abused) Innotop !

I loved it ! And I even became maintainer of it. This particular task became more and more complicated with the different forks and their differences. Also, let's be honest, Perl saved my life so many times
https://lefred.be/content/welcome-to-dolphie/
#57 #80 #81 #CommunityTool #MonitoringTrending #MySQL #Python