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I've moved to 8, so far no problems, and yes the MySql docs are very well written.
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Sep 23, 2019
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MySQL 8 or MySQL 5.x for new projects?
Just curious what everyone is choosing for new projects at this point… MySQL 8 or MySQL 5? If you choose MySQL 8 what gotchas, if any, exist in Laravel 6? Finally, do you find MySQL 8 to be well documented and community-supported where you can find help with common issues? I want to switch to 8 but MySQL 5 has always been so easy to work on.
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I am using mysql 5.7 :)
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For anyone finding this thread, one gotcha I ran into was that MySQL 8 uses an updated authentication method that PHP doesn't yet support thus causing artisan migrations to fail. Running this command on the database fixes the issue as of October 2019:
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';
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