MySQL continues to gear up innovations and now includes rich procedural programming capabilities inside the database. Developers can now write JavaScript stored programs (functions and procedures) in the MySQL database server. The stored programs will be run with the GraalVM run time. This is available as a Preview in MySQL Enterprise Edition and can be downloaded via Oracle Technology Network (OTN). MySQL-JavaScript is also available in the MySQL Heatwave cloud service on OCI, AWS and Azure.

MySQL Shorts is a short-format video series dedicated to all things MySQL. This post is one in a series where we will count down the top 5 MySQL Shorts videos based on views.

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Oracle Academy, Oracle’s global philanthropic educational program, is open to educators around the world to advance technology education, skills, innovation, and diversity and inclusion. In this post, we highlight some of the MySQL resources that are available for Oracle Academy Members.

Error logging is a critical aspect of database administration, providing insights into issues, warnings, and errors that may affect the system’s stability and performance. MySQL 8 introduces Error Log Filtering as a mechanism to fine-tune the error log, allowing administrators to focus on the most critical issues. By assigning priorities to different error types, administrators […]

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In this blog post, discover how to deploy WordPress on OCI using MySQL HeatWave Dabase Service with multiple replicas to spread the read traffic without having to change anything in WordPress and using MySQL Router 8.2.0's transparent R/W splitting feature.

Some time ago, we saw how we could deploy WordPress on OCI using MySQL HeatWave Database Service with Read Replicas. We had to modify WordPress to use a specific plugin that configures the Read/Write Splitting on the application (WordPress): LudicrousDB.

Today, we will not modify WordPress to split the Read and Write operations, but we will use MySQL Router 8.2.0 (see [1], [2], [3]).

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MySQL in Dec-Feb24

MySQL HeatWave is a fully managed database service, powered by the HeatWave in-memory query accelerator. It’s the only cloud service that combines transactions, real-time analytics across data warehouses and data lakes, and machine learning in one MySQL Database—without the complexity, latency, risks, and cost of ETL duplication.

In this Blog provides an overview, how to migrate from GCP Cloud SQL for MySQL into OCI MySQL Heatwave using MySQL Shell.