by revathisreem | Mar 31, 2026 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
Modern production systems require databases to remain available 24/7. Even short service interruptions can lead to revenue loss, degraded user experience, and loss of customer trust. At the same time, applications continuously evolve. Schema changes such as adding...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Feb 10, 2026 | Databases, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
Many teams face this frustrating cycle: MySQL is slow → DBA tunes it → performance improves →A few weeks later → MySQL is slow again. If you are a DBA or developer, this situation probably feels very familiar. The biggest misunderstanding is this:MySQL performance...
by Karthickraja durairaj | Feb 3, 2026 | Automation, General, MySQL
Introduction A DBA’s honest story about production, pressure, and finally having guardrails If you’ve worked as a DBA in production for a few years, you’ll eventually learn a quiet truth that nobody really prepares you for: When things go wrong in the database,...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Nov 18, 2025 | Databases, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
Migrating between MySQL and MariaDB used to be described as a “drop-in replacement.”But any DBA who has managed real production workloads knows that this is no longer true—especially with the modern community versions MySQL 8.4 LTS and MariaDB 11.4 LTS. It’s a common...
by revathisreem | Aug 26, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
If you’ve ever stared at a slow dashboard wondering why a query that should be instantaneous is chewing through seconds, you already know the truth: databases are fast when answers come from memory and slow when they come from disk. Caching is how we stack the odds in...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Aug 12, 2025 | KnowledgeBase, MySQL
As DBAs, we’re trained to think about performance, availability, and backups. But one thing that often gets overlooked — sometimes dangerously so — is encryption. In many teams, we leave it to the application developers or assume the cloud provider has it handled. But...
