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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.

In this blog I share how MySQL binary logs get their unique numbers after noting my observations with MySQL binary logs sequencing. Recently I noted an odd binary log sequencing…

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A multi-tenant database is a database that serves multiple clients, or tenants, who share the same database schema but have separate data sets. One way to achieve data isolation for each client is to create a separate MySQL database for each tenant.

Some advantages of this approach are:

• It allows for easy backup and restore of individual tenant data.
• It simplifies the database administration and maintenance tasks, as each database can be managed independently.
• Scaling is easily achieved by adding more database servers and distributing tenant databases across them.

This approach requires a large number of tables on each server. Combined with the default value of innodb_file_per_table=ON, this results in a large number of files that affects crash …

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.

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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