As MySQL HeatWave environments continue to grow, many organizations prioritize scaling compute and storage resources while overlooking a critical area: database housekeeping. Inadequate maintenance practices can result in excessive storage consumption, longer backup and recovery times, replication lag, degraded query performance, and increased operational costs. This blog highlights key database hygiene and optimization strategies for […]

Organizations modernizing transactional database environments are increasingly adopting MySQL HeatWave to simplify operations, improve scalability, increase availability, enhance security and enable real-time analytics without separating OLTP and OLAP systems. However, successful adoption requires more than simply provisioning a new database instance. This blog explores practical best practices for provisioning and migrating OLTP and OLAP workloads […]

As organizations modernize their data platforms, MySQL HeatWave has emerged as a powerful solution for running online transactional processing (OLTP) and real-time online analytics processing (OLAP) together without ETL complexity. However, achieving optimal performance and cost efficiency requires thoughtful capacity planning. This blog explains how to monitor and estimate MySQL HeatWave capacity using SQL queries, […]

Modern cloud applications are expected to remain available even during infrastructure interruptions, replication failovers, maintenance events, and transient network failures. In distributed database environments, it requires applications to treat transient failures as a normal part of production operations. This blog discusses practical API reliability designs for applications using MySQL HeatWave High Availability and Read Replicas, […]

Many applications start with a simple database setup: create one MySQL user, give it access to the application schema, put the credentials in the app config, and move on. That may work at first, but it is not a good long-term security model. A better approach is to use separate MySQL users for separate application […]

Production data is invaluable for day-to-day operations—support, troubleshooting, analytics, and development. But when that data contains sensitive fields such as SSNs, emails, phone numbers, or other identifiers, broad read access can quickly become unnecessary exposure.  Just as importantly, many organizations operate under regulatory and contractual requirements that expect strong controls around access to sensitive data—often including data masking as […]

MySQL HeatWave Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides built-in telemetry and logging capabilities that help organizations monitor database activity, troubleshoot issues, and maintain operational health. These logs are valuable not only for operations and performance tuning, but also for governance and regulatory compliance, where audit logging can be essential for tracking database activity and […]

Managing large datasets can be a balancing act between performance and storage. Keeping your “hot” data lean is critical for speed and memory efficiency. But what about the “cold” data you still need to retain? Partition Exchange Archiving a simple, production-ready strategy that lets you instantly move old data out of your primary tables without […]

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 […]

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 […]