This year marks a significant milestone in the world of databases—MySQL is celebrating its 30th anniversary! As the MySQL community around the globe came together to commemorate three decades of innovation, collaboration, and success. We’re excited to share that we have created a celebration video summarizing the festivities held worldwide, serving as a vibrant follow-up to […]

In 2025, MySQL proudly commemorated its 30th anniversary, marking three decades of innovation and community engagement in the realm of database technology. Throughout the year, the MySQL Community team engaged with the worldwide community to organize a series of events globally, uniting users, developers, and enthusiasts to celebrate this remarkable milestone. From meetups to summits […]

We are excited to announce that the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2026 will take place on Thursday, 29 January and Friday, 30 January 2026, in Brussels — just before FOSDEM 2026.

This two-day gathering brings together the MySQL community: developers, DBAs, engineers, tool-builders, and enthusiasts — offering a fantastic opportunity for knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration. The event will feature two content tracks, community sessions, expert talks by MySQL engineers and contributors, the much-anticipated “RockStars Award”, and a chance to mingle over good food.

Why You Should Attend — or Speak!

• Share your expertise — Are you working on an interesting MySQL project, tool, performance optimization, migration …

MySQL NDB Cluster offers high availability and scalability through its distributed architecture. However, managing and troubleshooting such a system requires robust monitoring and insightful diagnostics. At the heart of this lies effective logging. This post will guide you through the details of logging within MySQL NDB Cluster, explaining how it works across different kind of […]

When we run databases in Kubernetes, we quickly learn one important truth: things will fail, and we need to be prepared for this. Pods are ephemeral; nodes can come and go, storage is abstracted behind PersistentVolumes and can be either local to a node or backed by network storage, and Kubernetes moves workloads as needed […]

In 2025, the MySQL Shorts series continued to engage viewers worldwide by offering concise and informative tutorials on various MySQL topics. This year, the series expanded its reach, releasing 21 new episodes that delved into advanced functionalities and best practices. Top 5 Most-Watched MySQL Shorts in 2025 Among the standout episodes for 2025, five garnered […]

If you want to create a new application, test it, and deploy it on the cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides an always-free tier for compute instances and MySQL HeatWave instances (and more). If you are a developer, it can also be complicated to start deploying to the cloud, as you need to figure out the […]

Reflecting on my MySQL journey, I realize that a few foundational topics completely changed how I understand and use databases. These topics—primary and foreign keys, JOINs, and indexes—form the heart of the MySQL Basics series. Each one felt like a major breakthrough when I first learned it. Writing about them helped me rediscover that excitement […]

Since 2024, MySQL and ODBMs.org have embarked on a collaboration to produce insightful articles that cater to the needs of data professionals. This partnership has yielded an impressive portfolio of 15 published articles covering a diverse range of topics, marking a significant success in bridging knowledge between the MySQL Community and ODBMs.org. ODBMs.org has established […]

Where We Are We can all agree that the MySQL ecosystem isn’t in great shape right now. Take a look at Julia’s blog post [Analyzing the Heartbeat of the MySQL Server: A Look at Repository Statistics], which confirms what many of us have felt: Oracle isn’t as committed to MySQL and its ecosystem as it […]