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 […]

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.

With the 9.2.0 Innovation Release of MySQL Shell and MySQL Router, we are introducing Routing Guidelines – a new feature that makes query routing in MySQL database architectures more dynamic, flexible, and declarative.  Available in the MySQL Community and Enterprise Editions, this feature enables tailored query routing for specific application needs and ensures seamless query distribution across MySQL InnoDB Cluster, ClusterSet, and ReplicaSet […]

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 […]

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 […]

  Deploying MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet across multiple Kubernetes clusters is a complex challenge. While the MySQL Operator for Kubernetes can manage a MySQL InnoDB Cluster within a single Kubernetes cluster, deploying an InnoDB ClusterSet across multiple clusters requires cross-cluster communication, which is not yet supported by the current MySQL Operator release. This is where Cilium […]

As usual and as a follow up to the previous blog post, let us inform you about upcoming events and conferences where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL representatives at. Please check the list below. March 2025: April 2025: May 2025: More events will come up later. For more information and further updates […]

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 […]