There has been much discussion recently about the stability and performance of the latest MySQL releases. Many database professionals are voicing concerns, especially after encountering several issues in the newer versions. Issues with MySQL 8.0.38 Let’s start with some important news from Marco Tusa. In one of his blog posts, Marco strongly advised against upgrading […]

MySQL Implementation Oracle Certified Associate Exam

Historically, Percona has been providing our customers with enterprise-grade solutions for MySQL that meet the highest standards of compatibility and compliance. To follow this commitment, Percona now offers RHEL9-certified builds for the users of Percona software for MySQL. These builds have been rigorously tested and are available as rpm packages, ensuring seamless integration with your […]

The release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.0 includes the new UUID_VX component, which implements UUID versions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 according to recently published RFC 9562. UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) are unique identifiers that can be generated independently without a central authority or coordination with other parties. Unlike sequential integer identifiers, which […]

Sharing an example of how to do audit log archiving to table and thereafter to dump the archived table to Object Storage using MySQL Shell utility

The 'Always Free' tier of Oracle Cloud has a new offering - HeatWave MySQL. In this post, we will discuss how to spin up a new always-free HeatWave MySQL instance and connect to it via an alway-free compute instance.

Auditing is one of the key concerns with Security & Compliance for many organizations.   

This article is written to share a tutorial how to do audit log archiving by reading the audit log.  The audit archiving process is to read the audit log using audit_log_read function provided to access to the audit.   The data once is archived to Table "audit_archive.audit_data" and the table is renamed to "audit_data_<timestamp>" accordingly.  The table is dumped to OCI Object Storage bucket using mysql shell utility.  The tutorial is for demo purpose only.   

MySQL Enterprise Audit is the feature allowing audit to be implemented.   For managed service of "MySQL", namely HeatWave Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure,  Enterprise Audit is installed.   If running MySQL Enterprise Edition on your compute VM, please refer to the documentation on how to install MySQL …

On the cusp of Oracle Cloud World 2024, we’d like to call attention to some recent enhancements that are now available for Heatwave MySQL. These enhancements deliver improvements in availability, disaster recovery, performance, manageability and operability, and developer productivity.

This long article aims to provide you with the instructions and tools to migrate your production database from your current environment to a solution based on Percona Everest (MySQL). Nice. You decided to test Percona Everest and found that it is the tool you were looking for to manage your private DBaaS. The easiest part […]