The MySQL Community team will be active across conferences, user group meetups, open source events, and regional community activities during the summer months. Whether you would like to hear about the latest MySQL 9.7 updates, meet the MySQL team, join a user group meetup, or connect with the broader open source and developer community, here […]

Following the strong engagement across the first three editions of our Public MySQL Community Discussion series, we’re pleased to invite you to Edition #4. We will focus on the upcoming contribution process changes and our Contributor Summit later in May. This ongoing series is part of our commitment to increase transparency, strengthen collaboration, and provide […]

In modern application development, observability is no longer optional. It is a core requirement for stable operations, faster troubleshooting, and better understanding of system behavior. Databases are especially important because they often sit at the center of application performance. When a database becomes slow, overloaded, or unavailable, the impact is usually felt across the entire […]

Alkin Tezuysal Director of Services at Altinity Inc. MySQL 9.7 came out on April 21 and I’ve been going through the release notes so you don’t have to. The short version: Oracle has made several previously Enterprise-only features available in the Community Edition, the Hypergraph Optimizer is now free for everyone, and if you’re still on MySQL 8.0, it […]

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 […]

MySQL 9.7 introduces a long-requested improvement: Child table triggers are executed during SQL-layer foreign key cascades. Historically, cascades executed inside InnoDB did not invoke child table triggers, which created gaps in auditing, derived data maintenance, and observability. When a parent row change triggered cascading changes in child tables, those child table triggers were not executed. This […]

Best practices for MySQL customers and users in an AI-accelerated security landscape: A practical guide to hardening MySQL and the environment around it Oracle recently described how AI is transforming vulnerability detection and response. The latest generation of AI is increasing the speed and scale at which vulnerabilities can be identified and remediated. Oracle is […]

Introduction Replication performance depends on every stage in the pipeline, from the source database to transport and ultimately to commit on the replica. On the replica side, much of that performance comes down to how efficiently changes are read, scheduled, and applied under real operational pressure. In practice, that directly affects steady-state lag, backlog recovery […]

On April 21, 2026, our third public discussion continued the conversation around transparency, participation, and the future of MySQL. Building on the momentum from earlier sessions, the discussion focused on progress and improvements to increase community transparency and practical ways for community members to get involved. At the center of the discussion was the MySQL […]

MySQL 9.7 Community Edition now includes the hypergraph optimizer as an alternative to the classic join optimizer, making this capability available across all MySQL editions. This is not a cosmetic change. The hypergraph optimizer uses a new join-planning framework aimed at queries where plan shape can make a real difference, particularly for multi-table joins, workloads […]