The one where MySQL 8.0 lands on Google Cloud SQL
There are many things that makes me happy. Puppies (see picture), food, wine and databases… (not particularly in that order). And things that makes me even happier such as a well designed schema and proper usage of ORM (Object Relational Mapping).
MySQL was the database I used to love to hate. It grew on me and the fact that long strides were made to make it more consistent and more modern kept me away from using other open source databases on a daily basis for my projects. And with grand expectation and admiration I am proud of the Cloud SQL team for achieving this milestone:
Today we are making available MySQL 8.0 on Cloud SQL. It’s not just a new version inside our managed databases portfolio, but it also comes with all Cloud SQL capabilities such as Automatic Storage Increase, High Availability, Cross-region Replication and PITR (point in time recovery). And best yet: It’s not a beta, it’s a GA launch! See the announcement.
You can start using today from scratch or migrate an existing MySQL database to Cloud SQL; as a way to minimize downtime you can use the External Replication feature from your Google Cloud Console or via the gcloud command-line tool.
MySQL 8.0 has a huge list of new features, and you can do a range of new operations and querying. You can even do silly things like Fibonacci sequence using SQL (it is true!), traverse a Binary Tree or even do the old fizz-buzz:
On a more serious note, and enterprise worthy, you can now avoid sub-queries (or other N+1 problems), have better access control, and use Window Functions. There are plenty of new stuff, and this is a small list of talks on MySQL 8.0 I gave since the preview versions in 2017. One of my favorites is the following:
At Google we define anyone that uses a keyboard to work on a technical aspect of a product a Technical Practitioner. It is a wider definition, however more inclusive to the DBAs, DevOps and SysAdmins alike.
My particular goal has always been to help the day-to-day practitioner do things they wouldn’t imagine their database was capable of. This is why I have the Office Hours. This is why I do those talks and should do more blog posts.
If you want to learn more about MySQL 8.0 I ask you to read my website: gabi.dev, where I posted several things on MySQL.
Happy Launch day!
