MySQL articles — page 2 · Cloudsoft Zone

TutorialSaaS and Cloud24 September 2026
Automated MySQL 8.4 backups to S3 with mysqldump, retention and restore tests
Set up nightly MySQL 8.4 logical backups to Amazon S3 or any S3-compatible store: a least-privilege backup user, integrity checks before upload, an upload-only IAM policy, lifecycle retention and an automated restore test.
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Resource guideMySQL22 September 2026
Find slow MySQL queries with the slow log and Performance Schema
Set up the MySQL 8.4 slow query log, summarise it with mysqldumpslow, and use Performance Schema digests and sys views to find the queries costing most time.
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Troubleshooting guideMagento17 September 2026
Magento cron and indexers: how to set them up and fix common problems
Missing order emails, stale prices and invalid indexers usually trace back to cron. Learn how Magento cron and indexers work together, how to install the crontab, and how to diagnose and fix the most common failures.
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TutorialLaravel16 September 2026
Prevent duplicate payments and double webhook processing in Laravel
Stop double charges and double fulfilment in Laravel with Stripe and Razorpay: stable idempotency keys, unique constraints, locks, a webhook events table and reconciliation.
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MySQL11 September 2026
MySQL index design: composite, covering, functional and invisible indexes
How InnoDB clustered and secondary indexes work, and the design rules that follow: short primary keys, composite column order, covering indexes, functional and multi-valued JSON indexes, and safe removal with invisible indexes.
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WordPress4 September 2026
WordPress performance in 7.1: caching layers, images and speculative loading
Where WordPress spends time and how to fix it: page, object, opcode and browser caches, autoloaded options and transients, WordPress 7.1's client-side image processing, and tuning speculative loading safely.
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Interview preparationInterview questions3 September 2026
MySQL interview questions and answers for MySQL 8.4 LTS
21 MySQL interview questions with model answers checked against the MySQL 8.4 manual: joins, indexes, EXPLAIN ANALYZE, transactions and isolation levels, window functions, CTEs, keyset pagination, replication and what changed in 8.4.
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Architecture guideLaravel1 September 2026
How to design audit logs for Laravel SaaS and ERP applications
What to record, why model events are not enough, a tested hash-chained audit logger for Laravel 13, GDPR erasure with crypto-shredding, retention and packages.
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Troubleshooting guideWordPress29 August 2026
Fix a broken WordPress migration: URLs, redirect loops and 404s
Moved WordPress and something broke? Fix database errors, old-domain URLs, serialized data, HTTPS redirect loops and permalink 404s with WP-CLI commands.
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Architecture guideMySQL15 August 2026
MySQL 8.4 GTID replication: set up replicas and fail over safely
How MySQL 8.4 GTID replication works, when to add semisync, how to configure a source and replicas, the removed SLAVE statements and a safe failover runbook.
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TutorialAI and Automation30 July 2026
How to give an AI agent safe access to your business database
Give an AI agent read access to business data without handing it your database: parameterised tools, a read-only role, row-level security, masked views, limits and audit.
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Interview preparationMySQL8 July 2026
MySQL window functions and CTEs: 12 interview questions solved
Twelve MySQL 8.4 interview questions on window functions and CTEs, from RANK vs DENSE_RANK to recursive hierarchies, each with tested SQL and its output.
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