How to deploy MySQL HeatWave on AWS

Multicloud is a cloud adoption strategy that utilizes services from multiple cloud providers rather than relying on just one. This approach enables organizations to take advantage of the best services for specific tasks, enhances resilience, and helps reduce costs. Additionally, a multicloud strategy offers the flexibility necessary to meet regulatory requirements and increases options for […]

Ensuring FIPS compliance is crucial for securing sensitive data and meeting compliance objectives. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) are a set of standards and guidelines issued by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for use in federal computer systems. This blog provides a step-by-step guide to enabling FIPS mode on Oracle Linux 9 with MySQL, covering essential configurations for OpenSSL, SSH, and MySQL itself.

Announcing and introducing MySQL Routing Guidelines - A smarter, more flexible, and declarative approach to query routing in MySQL InnoDB Cluster, ClusterSet, and ReplicaSet.

Thank you to all contributors that have their patches added to MySQL 9.2

At the beginning of the year, we released MySQL 9.2, the latest Innovation Release. Sorry for the delay, but I was busy with the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days and FOSDEM MySQL Belgium Days. Of course, we released bug fixes for 8.0 and 8.4 LTS, but in this post, I focus on the newest release. Within […]

This blog was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in March 2025. One of the most common support tickets we get at Percona is the infamous “database is running slower” ticket.  While this can be caused by a multitude of factors, it is more often than not caused by a bad or slow […]

This blog post gives you a quick and easy SQL statement to check the available memory in your HeatWave MySQL cluster.

As promised, my slides from FOSDEM25 and Pre-FOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days :

• MySQL Scalability & Systems Evaluation Overview 2025 [PDF]
• Profiling MySQL Memory & CPU Usage Directly From MySQL [PDF}

And since I was asked several times about MySQL test case demonstrating glibc-malloc memory fragmentation / leaks -- here are all the details :

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Learn about MySQL reserved words, their impact on database design, and how to avoid common errors. Find practical tips, examples, and resources for managing reserved words effectively.

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