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 […]

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 […]

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.eibccbnkjudbffhigvdnjiudbhertlevjevtuddruvhd We will cover connections […]

Let’s now see how we can connect to our MySQL HeatWave DB System, which was deployed with the OCI Hackathon Starter Kit in part 1. We have multiple possibilities to connect to the DB System, and we will use three of them: MySQL Shell in the command line MySQL Shell is already installed on the […]

Announcing MySQL HeatWave Migration Assistant — the newest way to move MySQL workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with ease! Migrating critical databases to the cloud is often viewed as complex. That changes with the launch of the MySQL HeatWave Migration Assistant. This new tool is purpose-built to help organizations move their on-premises MySQL databases […]

We saw in part 1 how to deploy our starter kit in OCI, and in part 2 how to connect to the compute instance. We will now check which development languages are available on the compute instance acting as the application server. After that, we will see how easy it is to install a new […]

In part 1, we saw how to deploy several resources to OCI, including a compute instance that will act as an application server and a MySQL HeatWave instance as a database. In this article, we will see how to SSH into the deployed compute instance. Getting the key To connect to the deployed compute instance, […]