On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, aka OCI, MySQL Database Service, aka MDS uses the snapshot technology to backup your data. I will explain how it works in the multiple part blog series. In part 1, we will deal with taking snapshots as backup. In part 2, we will see how to restore data and for which […]

On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, aka OCI, MySQL Database Service, aka MDS uses the snapshot technology to backup your data. This article is the second part of multiple part blog series. In part 1, we dealt with taking snapshots as backup. In this part, we deal with restoring the data. Managed Snapshots We saw in the […]

We recently saw that .frm files have been somewhat of replaced for MyISAM tables in MySQL 8.0 (see this post). However, what are those files ? Can they be used for something else than MyISAM tables ? … Let’s try to answer those questions and get more familiar with the .sdi files. What does SDI […]

On MySQL Database Service (aka MDS) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (aka OCI), when you create a new instance, you also need to set the credentials for the administrator: Let’s focus on that account… Please don’t forget the password, it cannot be recovered !! First of all that account’s username has some limitations. Indeed, some names […]

Introduction MySQL is the world most popular open source database because of its reliability, high-performance, and ease of use. MySQL has been designed and optimized for transaction processing and enterprises around the world rely on it. With the introduction of HeatWave in MySQL Database Service, customers now have a single database which is efficient for both […]

When you create a MySQL Database Service instance in OCI, you have the choice between 3 types: If you have minutes as RTO (Recovery Time Objective) in case of a failure, you must choose a High Availability instance that will deploy a Group Replication Cluster over 3 Availability Domains or 3 Fault Domains. See Business […]

To setup point-in-time recovery for MDS using Object Storage, these are the prerequisites: In this article, I won’t focus on how to create a MDS instance, a compute instance, enable backups and Object Storage Bucket, this is easy and there is already a lot of literature about them (you can also check several of my […]

In part 1 of the series about Point-in-Time Recovery in OCI MDS, we saw how to stream the binary log to Object Storage. In this blog post, we will see how we can restore the data up to certain point. The high level process is simple: The scenario We have an application that constantly write […]

GT Cup 2021 For racing, as for the cloud, performance matters; and a few second faster will make a difference between win and lose.   Team Greystone GT and Oracle MySQL Database Service with HeatWave score maiden race win with Mason and Lancaster in GT Cup Greystone GT became race winners for the first time as Rich Mason […]

    One of the things I love about the MySQL Shell is that is saves your authentication credentials (no longer just passwords) in an obfuscated login path file named .mylogin.cnf. You can find that file in the %APPDATA%\MySQL directory on Windows or the current user's home directory on non-Windows systems. The file can be read later by MySQL client programs, such as the MySQL Shell, to obtain your authentication credentials for connecting to MySQL Server.

Which Credentials?

I had an email this morning from someone wanting to a) change the password stored by mysqlsh and b) find out which credentials are stored on the shell account being used.

Let's start out in reverse order.  The mysql_config_editor will show you the accounts with credentials saved for that login. 

$ mysql_config_editor print --all
[root@localhost]
user = "root"
password = …