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MySQL 8 Doesn’t Support Some of the Features You May Have Used

We often discuss the new features added in new MySQL versions, but it becomes equally important to discuss the removed features that you’ll no longer be able to use.

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Deepak Vohra
Wrangling API Security Amid Rapid Growth Wrangling API Security Amid Rapid Growth

APIs are an open attack vector for an organization's network and data. Here are some best practices to secure APIs and test them more thoroughly.

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Ross Moore
Resource Groups in MySQL 8 Resource Groups in MySQL 8

Resource Groups, a new feature in MySQL 8 for resource management, are used to define a group for a certain type of threads, and to allocate the resources that threads in a particular group may consume. This results in prioritizing the different groups of threads.

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Deepak Vohra
Window Functions in MySQL 8 Window Functions in MySQL 8

Window functions are a new feature in MySQL 8. While most functions operate only on the data pertaining to a single row of data, Window functions operate over a “window” of data when performing a SQL query, and also for each query row.

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Deepak Vohra
Creating a New User in MySQL 8 Creating a New User in MySQL 8

In MySql 8, you may create a user that requires multiple authentication methods, uses a random password, with comments and attributes annotated with the user, and configured failed logins.

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Deepak Vohra
Common Table Expressions in MySQL 8 Common Table Expressions in MySQL 8

Common Table Expressions (CTEs) are a new feature in MySQL 8.0 to simplify SQL code related to result sets generated by subqueries, offering a better alternative to derived tables.

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Deepak Vohra
The New Data Dictionary in MySQL 8.0 The New Data Dictionary in MySQL 8.0

The data dictionary tables do incur some operational and upgrade differences, but the benefits outweigh the overhead.

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Deepak Vohra
MySQL 8.0.x Offers New JSON Features

MySQL database supports a native JSON data type in addition to several JSON related SQL/JSON functions. In this article, we will discuss some of the new JSON features in MySQL 8.x.

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Deepak Vohra