This blog is not intended to offer anything extraordinary; instead, consider it an anecdote, a lesson, or simply a proper way of doing things without the need to run a test when in doubt. That said, I must emphasize that, as always, testing everything before deploying to production is essential. Let’s dive into the story: […]

Earlier this year, we published a series of blog posts focusing on using thhe OCI CLI to manage HeatWave MySQL Instances. Here is a summary of each post. Using the Oracle Cloud TypeScript SDK Part 1 – Listing MySQL HeatWave Instances The first post in this series demonstrates how to return a list of HeatWave […]

MySQL Shorts is a playlist on the MySQL YouTube channel dedicated to short form tutorials that focus on a single feature or solution to a problem. This video series covers a variety of different topics. For this post, we will sumamrize all the ‘Shorts’ that discuss features and tools for DBAs. Episode 46 In Episode 46 we demonstrate how […]

The second season of the podcast Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks has begun. In the first episode, Fred and Scott discuss how they got started with MySQL and some of their favorite features.

MySQL Telemetry Logging OpenTelemetry provides a standard for transferring observability data. MySQL has already added support for OpenTelemetry Traces and OpenTelemetry Metrics. MySQL recently added support for OpenTelemetry Logging.  OpenTelemetry provides a standardized way to generate, collect, and export telemetry data, including traces, metrics, and logs. By adopting this standard, users of MySQL can gain […]

OpenTelemetry provides a standard for transferring observability data. MySQL has already added support for OpenTelemetry Traces and OpenTelemetry Metrics. We recently added support for OpenTelemetry Logging.

Let’s stay a bit longer with MySQL 3.2x to advance the MySQL Retrospective in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary. The idea of this article was suggested to me by Daniël van Eeden. Did you know that in the early days, and therefore still in MySQL 3.20, MySQL used the ISAM storage format? IBM introduced the […]

Let's do a move into the past for the MySQL Advent Calendar before the 30th Anniversary and talk about MySQL 3.20

To further advance the MySQL Retrospective in anticipation of the 30th Anniversary, today, let’s discuss the very first version of MySQL that became availble to a wide audient though the popular InfoMagic distribution: MySQL 3.20! In 1997, InfoMagic incorporated MySQL 3.20 as part of the RedHat Contrib CD-ROM (MySQL 3.20.25). Additionally, version 3.20.13-beta was also […]

The latest Episode of MySQL Shorts is now available! Check out Episode 80 on the MySQL YouTube Channel to learn how to create MySQL scheduled events.