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, […]

Introduction Vision Language Models (VLMs) are crucial for bridging the gap between visual and textual data by combining image and language understanding. Some important VLMs’ use cases are: VLMs are considered an improvement over traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems by incorporating contextual awareness beyond pixel-level recognition. Heatwave GenAI already provides industry-first in-database LLMs, an […]

Introduction In today’s data-driven enterprises, the volume of unstructured documents is growing rapidly. AI powered document summarization improves enterprise efficiency by eliminating the need to go over these documents manually. Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools for summarizing documents, but they face context window limits when dealing with long documents. Furthermore, studies show that […]

Introduction Heatwave AutoML is super simple to use, and now we are introducing another feature for ease of use called NL2ML (or Natural language to machine learning) which provides step by step guidelines on how to use ML for a particular business problem. NL2ML is a natural language interface that simplifies user interactions with Heatwave AutoML. […]

If you want to create a new application, test it, and deploy it on the cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides an always-free tier for compute instances and MySQL HeatWave instances (and more). If you are a developer, it can also be complicated to start deploying to the cloud, as you need to figure out the […]

Executive Summary AI applications rely on vector embeddings to power search and recommendations, but these data-rich vectors introduce new security and privacy risks. This blog explains the main threats to AI embeddings, how attacks can occur, and proven strategies for protecting vector data with MySQL—covering secure storage, access controls, encryption, auditing, and compliance best practices. […]

In our earlier post, we unpacked the mechanics of MySQL HeatWave maintenance, the behind-the-scenes process that keeps your MySQL environments secure, stable, and optimized without changing your database version. We also touched on how Auto Minor Version Upgrades occur when a version reaches the end of its lifecycle. With this update, MySQL HeatWave introduces Configurable Maintenance Windows and Auto-Upgrade Controls, giving you […]

Manually sifting through documents like purchase orders (POs) to find specific information is a time-consuming and often frustrating task. What if you could simply ask questions in plain English and get immediate, accurate answers? This is now possible with MySQL HeatWave GenAI. MySQL HeatWave is a fully managed MySQL database service that combines transactions, analytics, […]