Tutorial delivered at Percona Live London 2014, where we explore new features and techniques for faster queries with MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 and MariaDB 10, including the newest options in MySQL 5.7.5 and MariaDB 10.1. Download here the virtual machine with the example database: http://dbahire.com/pluk14 Update: WordPress has a workaround for STRICT mode: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26847