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Roles have been existing on many RDBMS for a long time by now. Starting from version 8.0, this functionality is finally there for MySQL. The most important advantage is to define only once a role that includes a “set of permissions”, then assign it to each user, avoiding wasting time declaring them individually. In MySQL, a role can be created like a user, but without the “identified by” clause and without login: mysqld2-([email protected]) [(none)]> CREATE…
I was working on MySQL upgrades to version 5.7 at a customer, when I found out that for my instance, time in the error log file didn’t correspond to local system time: [email protected]:/u01/app/mysql/admin/mysqld1/log/ [mysqld1] mysql -uroot -p Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) [email protected]:/u01/app/mysql/admin/mysqld1/log/ [mysqld1] ls -ltr mysqld1.err -rw-r—–. 1 mysql mysql 13323 Apr 12 10:54 mysqld1.err [email protected]:/u01/app/mysql/admin/mysqld1/log/ [mysqld1] tail -1 mysqld1.err 2018-04-12T08:54:55.300633Z 67 [Note] Access denied for…
As you know, foreign keys establish a sort of relationship between 2 tables. MySQL requires InnoDB storage engine to support foreign keys. In our example, we have the following parent table in a MySQL 5.7.21 server: mysqld3-([email protected]) [sakila]> show create table actor\G *************************** 1. row *************************** Table: actor Create Table: CREATE TABLE `actor` ( `actor_id` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `first_name` varchar(45) NOT NULL, `last_name` varchar(45) NOT NULL, `last_update` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON…
