As the year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to say thank you to everyone who makes the MySQL Community what it is. Whether you contributed code, filed bugs, answered questions in forums, wrote a tutorial, spoke at an event, organized a meetup, or simply shared your experience with others — your passion […]

In 2025, MySQL celebrated a significant milestone: the 30th anniversary of its creation. This was not only an occasion for reflection but also for connection and collaboration within the broader tech community. For the first time, MySQL Community proudly sponsored several major events in Latin America, marking a pivotal moment in its journey. These events […]

Again this year, the MySQL Team will be present both before and during FOSDEM. FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a large, free, non-commercial annual conference in Brussels, Belgium, where thousands of free and open-source developers and users attend different sessions and provides an opportunity for those projects to meet their […]

We have reached the end of our series on deploying to OCI using the Hackathon Starter Kit. For this last article, we will see how to deploy an application using Helidon (Java), the MySQL REST Service, and OCI GenAI with Lanchain4J. We use Helidon because it’s a cool, open-source framework developed by Oracle. It’s lightweight […]

Welcome to the 20th installment of the 2025 MySQL Community Advent Calendar of Content! For this entry, we are highlighting season 3 of the Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks podcast, which was dedicated to all things artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on MySQL. Across five insightful episodes, Scott, Fred, and a range of expert guests […]

The starter kit deploys a MySQL HeatWave DB System on OCI (see previous posts [1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7]) and enables the MySQL REST Service automatically: The REST Service enables us to provide access to data without requiring SQL. It also provides access to some Gen AI functionalities available in MySQL HeatWave. Adding data to MRS using Visual Studio […]

We saw in part 6 how to use OCI’s GenAI Service. GenAI Service uses GPUs for the LLMs, but did you know it’s also possible to use GenAI directly in MySQL HeatWave? And by default, those LLMs will run on CPU. The cost will then be reduced. This means that when you are connected to […]

In the previous articles [1][2][3][4][5], we saw how to easily and quickly deploy an application server and a database to OCI. We also noticed that we have multiple programming languages to choose from. In this article, we will see how to use OCI GenAI Service (some are also available with the always-free tier). The goal […]

In part 4 of our series on the OCI Hackathon Starter Kit, we saw how to connect to the deployed MySQL HeatWave instance from our clients (MySQL Shell, MySQL Shell for VS Code, and Cloud Shell). In this post, we will see how to connect from an application using a connector. We will cover connections […]

MySQL Shorts is a curated series of concise video tutorials designed to deliver focused, easily digestible content to the MySQL community. Each episode zeroes in on a specific feature or solution, making it easier for developers and database enthusiasts to grasp complex topics quickly. With over 124,000 views and more than 2,350 hours of watch […]