One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

So.... why MySQL instead of the better F/OSS MariaDB, which after all was forked from MySQL after the Oracle Monstrosity bought MySQL. Click to expand... Because ...

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MySQL is a powerful and performant database engine that often suffers from performance issues due to misconfiguration. Obvious culprits for bottlenecks are available memory and CPU resources but disk ...

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