MySQL Database, why managing it?
In the corporate world, information is an asset that becomes more valuable every day. Information represents power — in the sense of competitive advantage — and the companies that have the know-how to organize data and extract specific indicators are always far ahead of their competitors.
Regardless of the size or complexity of the repositories, and even of the platform used, making an effective database management is an IT governance item as important as obtaining information and managerial and statistic reports.
MySQL is one of the most used database management systems (DBMS) in the world, both for its relative simplicity and for being an open source tool. We are going to list, in this article, the advantages of using MySQL database, as well as the reasons why it is key to do management and fine-tuning of a database.
Eliminating duplicate information
Redundancy is one of the critical factors when you start storing information disorderly. Keeping the same data in different places increase considerably the work to update it, in addition to not guaranteeing the integrity of what is being stored. Using a DBMS, with a good planning, will put an end to this problem.
Safety
Information security is a matter that always concerns organizations. We are talking about both access control and backups of stored information. A MySQL database management system offers robust resources to grant and revoke authorizations, with several and scaled access levels, as well as enables making backups of the stored data. Thus, it is possible to recover the database in the event of failure and still perform access audits of activities carried out by each user.
Data integrity
MySQL offers advanced data integrity control resources, ensuring that there are no meaningless information in the tables. Therefore, for example, it is impossible to delete a record that is key on another table. As the database does it automatically, developers have a reduced need to be directly concerned about this aspect.
Open Source
Despite being proprietary of the giant Oracle, MySQL is an open source database, which is the reason that drove its popularization and good position in the market. The tool has evolved considerably since it was launched, mainly due to the contribution of developers spread all around the world.
MySQL management
Naturally, it is not enough to have a MySQL instance running in the servers of the company to achieve your objectives. It is necessary to manage the database, reviewing indicators and carrying out tasks that are translated into higher processing speed and reliability. By performing this tuning periodically, the database will be more efficient in data storage and recovery.
With the command “SHOW VARIABLES”, applied in a MySQL environment, it is possible to obtain information on the system variables. Additionally, the command “SHOW STATUS” enables you to check some statistics and status indicators of the MySQL server. Based on this data, it is possible to obtain a behavior profile of the database and, if necessary, to trace strategies to optimize its performance.
Database monitoring platform: With OpMon, the IT infrastructure monitoring software developed by OpServices, it is also possible to monitor metrics of any database. Including MySQL.
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