FIDO2 WebAuthN is a modern, widely supported and increasingly useful standard getting us closer to The Passwordless Future. MySQL has supported multi-factor authentication (in the Enterprise Edition) since 8.0. And, as of 8.2, we added support for WebAuthN authentication. But the support was primarily geared towards using hardware based FIDO2 authenticator devices (e.g. Yubikeys). While […]

Regular expressions are powerful but often misunderstood tools developers have at their disposal. In this post we discuss how to use lookahead and lookbehind to match, but not return, a pattern.

Regular expressions are powerful but often misunderstood tools for developers. In recent posts, we have discussed subexpressions and back references (which are special types of subexpressions). This post will show examples of two other special subexpressions: look ahead and look behind. The Requirement Using the same data we have used in the past, we now have a requirement to […]

Vitess is a popular CNCF project that is used to scale some of the largest MySQL installations in the world — by companies like Slack, Square, Shopify, and GitHub. It provides sharding, connection pooling, and many other features that make it easy to scale MySQL horizontally. Vitess and MySQL are ideally suited for use as an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) system — where the end-user interacts directly with the system and fast response times are essential as they get product and service information, generating critical business records such as orders, user profiles, and more.

We saw in the previous post how we can deal with data stored in the new VECTOR datatype that was released with MySQL 9.0. We implemented the 4 basic mathematical operations between two vectors. To do so we created JavaScript functions. MySQL JavaScript functions are available in MySQL HeatWave and MySQL Enterprise Edition (you can […]

A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Marco Tusa published an important announcement titled “Do Not Upgrade to Any Version of MySQL After 8.0.37.” The announcement highlighted a critical issue in MySQL 8.0.38, MySQL 8.4.1, and MySQL 9.0.0 that caused database server crashes. Good news! The upcoming minor releases for the community edition of MySQL and […]

We saw in the previous post how we can deal with data stored in the new VECTOR datatype that was released with MySQL 9.0. We implemented the 4 basic mathematical operations between two vectors. To do so we created JavaScript functions. MySQL JavaScript functions are available in MySQL HeatWave and MySQL Enterprise Edition (you can […]

In this article we see how we can create a component to add UDFs functions to deal with the VECTOR datatype in MySQL.

MySQL 9.0.0 has brought the VECTOR datatype to your favorite Open Source Database. There are already some functions available to deal with those vectors: This post will show how to deal with vectors and create our own functions to create operations between vectors. We will use the MLE Component capability to create JavaScript functions. JS […]

How to deal with VECTORS in MySQL HeatWave and Enterprise Edition using JavaScript