Episode #60 of MySQL Shorts in now available!

We usually receive and see some questions regarding the charset levels in MySQL, especially after the deprecation of utf8mb3 and the new default uf8mb4. If you understand how the charset works on MySQL but have some questions regarding this change, please check out Migrating to utf8mb4: Things to Consider by Sveta Smirnova.Some of the questions […]

MySQL Meetups EMEA in April

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) command line interface (CLI) allows users to manage OCI resources. In this post, we will discuss how to use the OCI CLI to create a read replica of a MySQL HeatWave instance.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) command line interface (CLI) allows users to manage OCI resources. In this post, we will discuss how to use the OCI CLI to create a backup of a MySQl HeatWave instance and then restore that back up to a new HeatWave instance.

OSC Japan 2023 recap

Learn how to visualize the memory usage of a MySQL connection

Yes, this is a catchy title, but it is true, and it got you reading this post :-).  Another title could have been “Please load this mysql-dump: what could go wrong ?”.  As you guessed, loading a dump is not a risk-free operation.  In this post, I explain how the insecure MySQL client makes this operation risky and how to protect against it.

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It’s a common scenario to have a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) server running on Kubernetes and also desire to monitor databases that are running outside the Kubernetes cluster. The Ingress NGINX Controller is one of the most popular choices for managing the inbound traffic to K8s. It acts as a reverse proxy and load […]

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) command line interface (CLI) allows users to manage OCI resources. In this post, we will discuss how to use the OCI CLI to retrieve a list of MySQL HeatWave instances, retrieve more detailed information for a specific instance, and update properties of that instance.