As a new Oracle employee working in the External Standards and Community Engagement group in the Czech Republic, I was happy to attend the first MySQL User Group meeting happening for after some time of inactivity in Prague. While I am not working directly on the MySQL team, I was interested to learn more about […]

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MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-Identification components were introduced in MySQL v. 8.0.33 and are available in Enterprise Edition and cloud version. Among other functionality, they provide functions that randomly select terms from user defined masking dictionaries. They are stored in a dedicated table and memory cache. So far, the schema of the table was fixed […]

The latest Episode of MySQL Shorts is now available! Check out Episode 55 on the MySQL YouTube Channel to learn restore a MySQL HeatWave backup to a new instance in Oracle Cloud.

MySQL Shorts Episode #55, discussing restoring a MySQL HeatWave backup, is now available.

Data is abstract. Geospatial design management is how engineers across various disciplines make sense of complex data to make more informed decisions and better understand the spatial relationships in the world around us. In this blog post, I explore how complex data and geographic features can be represented in MySQL. Geospatial data, often referred to in technical documentation as geodata, includes information related to locations on the Earth's surface. In MySQL, geographic features represent anything in the real world with a location and are defined as either Entities or Space. Type Definition Examples Entities Specific objects with defined boundaries and individual properties Landmarks: Mountains, rivers, forests, buildings Infrastructure: Roads, bridges, power lines Administrative areas: Countries, cities, states Points of interest: Restaurants, shops, ATMs Spaces Continuous areas defined by their location and characteristics Land cover: …

This blog demonstrates how to setup OpenVPN Access Server for access to MySQL HeatWave.

A little over a week ago, we released Galera Cluster for MySQL 8.0.35. Today, we have also made available binaries for Debian 12 “bookworm”.

As always we have binary installation documentation available, and if you are just after a quick install, the following is what is in your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/galera.list:

deb https://releases.galeracluster.com/galera-4.17/debian bookworm main
deb https://releases.galeracluster.com/mysql-wsrep-8.0.35-26.16/debian bookworm main

Happy installing, and the next step is to ensure that Debian 12 is enabled on Galera …

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Following on from the previous “Where can you find MySQL during December – February 2024” blog updated last week as “Update No. 2”, we are happy to announce that we have the SMUG Meetup registration page up and running! You can register now at the link below. For those of you who are not familiar […]