The latest from the MySQL community

Recently, Oracle added a Bastion Service to OCI. And you may also have noticed that the OCI Dashboard offers you the possibility to use a browser based terminal: Cloud Shell. Today, we will see how we can use these two components to connect from the browser to a MDS DB System. We need the MySQL […]

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 […]

MySQL Database Service (aka MDS) is very popular and many users wants to benefit from the managed MySQL service and from MySQL HeatWave. We see many users migrating their data from MySQL on-premise or from another cloud vendor to MDS… we also see people migrating from other data-stores like PostgreSQL. In this article we will […]

We saw in this previous post how to import data from PostgreSQL to MySQL Database Service. Using almost the same technique, we will now import data from Amazon Redshift and import it to a MDS instance. With Redshit we have two options to export the data to CSV files that can be imported to MDS: […]

After having see how we can import data from PostgreSQL and Amazon Redshift, this time we will see how we can export data from Microsoft SQL Server and import it into MySQL Database Service in OCI. This time we will use something extra (for fun but also because it’s practical): OCI Object Storage ! The […]

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 […]