FromDual delivers the new version 2.2.1 of its popular database performance monitoring solution for MariaDB, Galera Cluster, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

The FromDual Performance Monitor is freely available for testing purposes.

Further details can be found here: www.fromdual.com/blog/fromdua....

Open Letter — Invitation to Discuss the Future of the MySQL Ecosystem The MySQL Ecosystem Needs Independent, Vendor-Neutral Governance. Add your name to the open letter.

A newly forming independent community demands in an open letter from #Oracle: ‘Let's talk about the future of #MySQL.’
Anyone who wants to publicly support this letter is welcome to sign up here: letter.3306-db.org
Further sources:
www.percona.com/blog/an-open...
www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/m...

What is the quickest way to load data into the #database?

We recently analysed this for #MariaDB / #MySQL and #PostgreSQL and showed that the simplest method is not the fastest.

You can see more details and the results here: www.fromdual.com/blog/load-da...

#MariaDB has completely ruined the concept of the dynamically configurable #InnoDB buffer pool!

And this within a long-term support release series. To prevent this from affecting your production environment, I have described it:
www.fromdual.com/blog/mariadb...
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How much space does NULL need?

I was recently asked this by a customer. In this article we describe how much space NULL really uses with #MariaDB, #MySQL and #PostgreSQL #databases...

www.fromdual.com/blog/how-muc...

Someone is deleting my shared memory segments!

With #PostgreSQL under myEnv we regularly get shared memory segment errors:

FATAL: could not open shared memory segment "/PostgreSQL.4220847662":

I have described why this happens here:

www.fromdual.com/blog/deleted...

Load CSV files into the database

Proof of concept how to load data from a CSV file into a #MariaDB/#MySQL or #PostgreSQL database to display locations on an #OpenStreeMap map with #Leaflet.

www.fromdual.com/blog/load-cs...

Introducing VillageSQL: A New Path for MySQL in the Agentic AI Era MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database by many measures but a persistent innovation gap has emerged. This gap causes developers to select other databases over MySQL for new application...

Introducing #VillageSQL: A New Path for MySQL in the Agentic #AI Era

The successor of #MySQL? Time will show...

villagesql.com/blog/introdu...

#database

Next Sunday is #DiDay again (the 2nd?)! What's planned? For those who are not at #FOSDEM?

Details: di.day

#didit #Linuxtreff #opensource #endof10 #DigitalindependenceDay #linux