by Robert Buda | Aug 10, 2021 | Database Security, MariaDB, MySQL
Long a cornerstone of data security, encryption is becoming more important than ever as organizations come to grips with major trends like teleworking, privacy mandates and Zero Trust architectures. To comprehensively protect data from the widest possible range of...
by Robert Buda | Jul 5, 2013 | Best Practices, Database, MySQL
MySQL is a very popular database for many applications. But the parser has some important deficiencies that developers need to be aware of. The parser is inconsistent and not robust in the way that it enforces statement syntax. This may lead to ambiguity and...
by Robert Buda | Nov 30, 2011 | MySQL
The Impact of Query Rewrite on MySQL Query Optimization When processing a query, every relational database vendor takes a number of similar steps to parse, validate, and optimize a query. MySQL does the following: Validates the query syntax — does it use valid...
