Cloud database security isn’t just a best practice—it's an absolute necessity. With sensitive data flowing into the cloud, protecting your business-critical assets is non-negotiable, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) HeatWave MySQL provides robust features to help. This blog explores customer managed encryption key, the related backup strategies, and the required security policies so you can keep your databases both agile and secure.

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The MySQL REST Service is a next-generation JSON Document Store solution, enabling fast and secure HTTPS access to data stored in MySQL, HeatWave, InnoDB Cluster, InnoDB ClusterSet, and InnoDB ReplicaSet. Try the latest MySQL REST Service lab release!

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In my previous blog post, Understanding trx-consistency-only on MyDumper Before Removal, I talked about --trx-consistency-only removal, in which I explained that it acts like a shortcut, reducing the amount of time we have to block the write traffic to the database by skipping to check if we are going to backup any non-transactional tables. Now, […]

We're now expanding OCI Database Management capabilities with a new set of enhanced monitoring features - designed to reduce operational burden on DBAs and developers, strengthen observability, and support high availability across modern MySQL deployments.

I’ve hacked together a horrible thing in Python, and made it available in mysql-release-notes

on GitHub.

It’s a Python project (done with uv) that downloads all MySQL release notes, dumps them into a release_notes folder, and then parses them, pushing everything into a database.

It uses SQLAlchemy and mysqlclient to connect to the database.

It generates a schema (not preserving any data), and fills it with all the release notes we have.

The schema is a simple star.

For each release, we have many issues, and for each issue we store a number of properties. Properties aren’t stored as plain text — they’re encoded, and we only keep the property ID.

Sample queries like

select t.contributor,
       min(r.release_date), min(r.version),
       max(r.release_date), max(r.version), …

HeatWave MySQL Database Audit brings powerful enterprise-grade auditing capabilities to the cloud, allowing organizations to monitor and track database activity for security, compliance, and performance optimization. With features like customizable filters, real-time monitoring, minimal overhead, and seamless integration with MySQL tools, it enables administrators to log critical operations, detect threats, and maintain detailed records for regulatory requirements. The audit system is easy to set up, supports granular activity tracking, and provides actionable insights directly through the SQL interface.

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