#MySQL

AliSQL 8.0 - Alibaba's OSS that integrates DuckDB columnar engine and vector search into MySQL

Alibaba open-sourced AliSQL 8.0, which combines MySQL-compatible OLTP, DuckDB-based high-speed OLAP, and HNSW vector search into a single database. This article considers what that means amid MySQL stagnation and PostgreSQL's momentum.

Is MySQL dying? A January 2026 snapshot of MySQL and MariaDB

Commit slowdowns on GitHub, Oracle layoffs, and community fork discussions. This article organizes the unease around MySQL and the current state of MariaDB.

FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS Didn't Work When Running mysqldump SQL via PHP PDO

A migration failure caused by relying on mysqldump's conditional comments, and how to fix it.

Multibyte Characters Get Corrupted When Inserting into Docker MySQL via PowerShell

Japanese text gets mangled when inserting into MySQL on Docker from PowerShell. PHP-based insertion works fine, suggesting the issue is PowerShell's character encoding, not the application.

Every Date Was Wrong: Server, MySQL, PHP, and JavaScript All at Once

A story about dates going haywire in an AI-generated PHP script, plus a breakdown of timezone pitfalls in each layer — server, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.