What’s New in MySQL 8.0. MySQL 8 has lots of exciting improvements: Window functions, SRS aware spatial types for GIS, utf8mb4 by default, a ton of JSON improvements and atomic DDL. I no longer feel at a significant disadvantage when I have to use MySQL in place of PostgreSQL.
Recent articles
- Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
- Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult - 24th November 2025
- sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes - 24th November 2025