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Licaon_Kter
PSA: https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html#AppendixMSQL
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jonas’
> This Critical Patch Update contains 43 new security patches for Oracle MySQL. 11 of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without requiring user credentials.
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Licaon_Kter
Dunno how the split went when Oracle bought it, I mean mysql from your favourite distro is ...this?
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TheCoffeMaker
what abt mariadb?
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Licaon_Kter
Not by Oracle, so don't worry...maybe...
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jonas’
depends where the codebase split originally
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TheCoffeMaker
We should stop using mysql/mariadb and use real databases like postgresql (?
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ij
seconded.
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Ge0rG
well, there are voices from the terabyte-scale-dbms fraction regarding mysql being the only reasonable choice
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TheCoffeMaker
As for my experience postgresql is more than capable to handle big databases
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jonas’
I've seen mysql tank on just a million records or so, and that was rectified by disabling a specific optimizer option which was enabled by default. That and a lot of other database lore has me firmly in the "it's all a matter of configuration" camp