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August 29, 2022

Zero downtime Laravel migrations

Learn how to run no downtime non-blocking schema migrations in your production Laravel app with PlanetScale.

August 28, 2022

Mining the MySQL Performance Schema for Transactions

The MySQL Performance Schema is a gold mine of valuable data. Among the many nuggets you can extract from it is an historical report of transactions: how long a transaction took to execute, what queries were executed in it (with query metrics), and idle time between queries. Mining this information is not trivial, but it’s fun and this blog post shows how to start.

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