r/mysql is a subreddit with 49k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses mysql, database, looking, query, and sql, and they frequently recommend/review operating system.
Discussion of MySQL and assistance for MySQL related questions
Popular Themes in r/mysql
#1
Solution Requests
: "Faster way to import?"
27 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How to know how to safely delete a MySQL database?"
10 posts
#3
News
: "Anybody knows how the Oracle layoffs have impacted the MySQL team?"
2 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I built an open-source Database Resilience Platform for centralized backup and restore operations across multiple databases"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/mysql
#1
Mysql
: "Mysql users be warned: git commits in Mysql-server significantly declined 2025"
170 posts
#2
Database
: "How to know how to safely delete a MySQL Database?"
29 posts
#3
Looking
18 posts
#4
Query
: "How do you usually figure out which part of a Query caused the final result?"
15 posts
#5
Sql
: "I want to learn Sql"
13 posts
#6
Struggling
11 posts
#7
Error
: "Trying to search JSON in MySQL. Syntax Error from MySQL but validator says OK."
9 posts
#8
Migration
: "Help needed in Migration of RDS MySql 8.0.34"
8 posts
#9
Strugglingwith
7 posts
#10
Workbench
: "MySQL and Workbench"
7 posts
Products Discussed in r/mysql
Operating System
1 review
#1
hoop.dev
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/mysql
#1
question
: "Install MySQL Linux mint"
88 posts
#2
discussion
: "MySQL users be warned: git commits in mysql-server significantly declined 2025"
70 posts
#3
solved
: "MySQL Workbench to DBeaver Transition"
9 posts
#4
query-optimization
: "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations — and it scaled"
8 posts
#5
troubleshooting
: "How to import ibd files"
6 posts
#6
schema-design
: "The Filesystem Is the API (with TigerFS)"
4 posts
#7
showcase and discussion
: "I built a minimal web-based MySQL/MariaDB GUI you can install with pip. Would love your feedback."
1 post
#8
need help
: "phpMyAdmin Access Denied"
1 post
#9
idea
: "I got tired of manually documenting database schemas, so I built a tool to export them directly to Markdown"
1 post
Member Growth in r/mysql
Yearly
+5k members(10.1%)
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Last updated: September 10, 2026