Temp Tables, Filesorts, UTF8, VARCHAR, and Schema Design in MySQL

03/02/15 The other day we were doing some peer review on a schema change at SolarWinds and the topic of character set, column length, and the potential downsides of using utf8 came up. I knew from experience that there are some hidden gotchas with this, and ... The post Temp Tables, Filesorts, UTF8, VARCHAR, and Schema Design in MySQL appeared first on SolarWinds Blog.