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PlanetScale Blog

One million connections

A powerful feature of serverless computing architecture is the ability to design and horizontally scale individual components of your stack, allowing more computing resources to be allocated on the fly to be used only when you need them. Databases are an essential part of the serverless stack, but people using serverless functions are finding an all too common problem with databases: connection limits. Users are forced to use proxies such as pgbouncer to handle even small workloads. With MySQL,

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MySQL Integers: INT BIGINT and more

MySQL has a number of integer types, and while INT may seem like the right choice for most scenarios, it’s worth understanding what options you have so you can make the right choice when designing your database. In this article, we’ll take a look at the various integer types and take a deeper dive into how they are stored in MySQL. An overview of the MySQL INT type An integer is simply a whole number. It can be positive, negative, or even zero. In MySQL, there are actually several different data

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