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 ...

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IIRC typing `apt install mysql-server` on Debian > Stretch will install mariadb by default. default-mysql-server on Debian shows mariadb as a dependency: Not sure; shortly after the mariadb split ...

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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