Amazon instance profiles are used to pass IAM roles to an EC2 instance. This IAM role can be queried using EC2 instance metadata to access an S3 bucket. Please check Amazon’s Official Documentation for more information.

Today we are happy to announce that starting with Percona XtraBackup 8.0.31-24, xbcloud can read instance metadata and fetch credentials from an instance profile, utilizing it to authenticate against an S3 bucket. Xbcloud is a tool part of Percona XtraBackup and allows you to upload and download backups to Amazon S3 storage.

How it works

Configure your EC2 instance …

Summary of the preFOSDEM MySQL Days 2023

I discovered a dependency for MySQL Workbench on AlmaLinux 8 installation. I neglected to fully cover it when I documented the installation in a VM of AlmaLinux 9. I go back later and update that entry but for now you need the following dependencies:

proj-6.3.2-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
proj-datumgrid-1.8-6.3.2.4.el8.noarch.rpm
proj-devel-6.3.2-4.el8.x86_64.rpm

Install like this:

sudo dnf install -y *.rpm

Log file:

Last metadata expiration check: 3:01:53 ago on Fri 10 Feb 2023 03:37:49 AM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
==========================================================================================
 Package                Architecture   Version                 Repository            Size
==========================================================================================
Installing:
 proj                   x86_64         6.3.2-4.el8             @commandline         2.0 M
 proj-datumgrid         noarch …

PlanetScale now supports PostgreSQL. Choosing a data store is one of the most important decisions you'll make when building software applications. The good and bad news though, is that there is an abundance of options. Depending on the type of application you're building, you may opt for a relational database like MySQL or Postgres, a non-relational database like MongoDB or CouchDB, a graph database like Neo4j, or one of the many other alternatives that each bring their own benefits and drawbacks. It is a difficult choice and sometimes you realize that the database you initially went with no longer serves the needs of your application and you have to make the choice to migrate. In this blog post, we'll take a look at how you can migrate your database schema from PostgreSQL to MySQL. MySQL and PostgreSQL or Postgres are both relational databases that have a lot of similarities, but also have a fair amount of differences that can make migration a …

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When you provision a MySQL HeatWave database instance, you can only connect to the database from services inside of OCI. Using an OCI network load balancer, we can connect to a MySQL HeatWave instance from clients outside of OCI. In this post, we'll show you how to do this.