There are many nice changes included in the MySQL 8.0.12 release that were published a couple of days ago. One of the most exciting is the ability to make instant schema changes to tables. This blog will look into why I think that that is a stand-out change. I will not go into details with the implementation other than noting that the new data dictionary in MySQL 8.0 has allowed for a nice impleme
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