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I rebuilt this MySQL connection from scratch on Node 26 with mysql2 3.24.4 because the old page still taught the unmaintained mysql package. It left every error to a throw that crashes your process. I ran each snippet below against a local MariaDB 10.11 on 3306, so every ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR you see came from a run […]

I threw a per-request MySQL connection into a small Node API and watched it limp under concurrent load, so I rebuilt it with a mysql2 pool and kept the receipts. I created the pool with createPool on Node v26.7.0 and mysql2 3.24.4, ran pool.query and pool.getConnection against a local host, and got ER_ACCESS_DENIED_NO_PASSWORD_ERROR back because […]

With MySQL Workbench 26.7, we introduced a new generation of MySQL Workbench, built on updated technology and on the MySQL Shell foundation. Alfredo Kojima’s post, Introducing MySQL Workbench 26, provides a great overview of the new architecture and the capabilities available in this release. Rather than repeat that overview, I wanted to share a few things […]

When you build an offline-first app, the question is what happens to a change while there is no network. The answer is a queue that writes to IndexedDB first, pushes to MySQL, and clears the local copy only after the server confirms. The library versions behind that run are Express 5.2.1 and mysql2 3.24.4, both […]

In our recent Where can you find MySQL from August through October 2026?, we shared a broad view of MySQL conferences, community activities, and user group meetups. Since then, community gatherings in Denver, Taipei, and Nashville have brought MySQL users, developers, and contributors together for technical discussion and local connection. We are continuing that momentum […]

The MySQL team at Oracle is excited to announce MySQL Workbench 26.7, the first of a new generation of the GUI administration and development tool for MySQL. A New Workbench MySQL Workbench 8 has served the community well, but it’s now old and has reached end of life. Its architecture, built on C++ and platform […]

Earlier last week I was working with Percona Binlog Server, Percona’s tool for archiving the MySQL binary log (binlog) outside of a traditional replica and exploring what it can do.…

The post How to setup and use Percona Binlog Server (PBS) first appeared on Change Is Inevitable.

Starting with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8.0, replication traffic encryption is enabled by default. That said, it’s common to find clusters running without TLS that suddenly need it: a new compliance requirement, an audit finding, a network segment that is no longer considered trusted.

PXC has a variable for exactly that case, pxc-encrypt-cluster-traffic, which handles SSL encryption for inter-node traffic, including State Snapshot Transfer (SST), Incremental State Transfer (IST), and the group communication the nodes use for replication.

The variable is not dynamic, and turning it on normally costs a full cluster restart since the node that encrypts traffic listens on ssl:// while its peers are still on tcp://. If a node joins the cluster with TLS enabled while remaining nodes don’t, the restarting node fails to reach out to the other peers with the following error:

2026-09-02T02:16:02.359992Z 0 [Note] [MY-000000] …

MySQL HeatWave telemetry is the built-in capability for exporting selected MySQL server logs to an observability destination. When telemetry is configured with OCI Log Analytics, it export MySQL log natively for search and analysis – supporting security investigations, database and operational errors troubleshooting, identification of costly SQL and performance bottlenecks, and centralized audit records for […]

Manage recurring maintenance windows, defer disruptive maintenance, and audit maintenance activity with a reusable Bash utility. MySQL HeatWave on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gives administrators control over when scheduled maintenance can occur and, with maintenance-disabled windows, the ability to temporarily defer non-critical maintenance that would cause downtime. That flexibility is useful when a DB System supports […]