In libera:#mysql a user has been running MySQL in a docker container with mysql:latest. This container got automatically upgraded to MySQL 9.0.0, an innovation release.

Part of the 9.0 release is the removal of the mysql_native_password plugin, which has been deprecated since 8.0. The user now can no longer login to their database. They have no backup and no replica.

We recreate the problem from scratch, using docker, and then recover the instance.

Creating a test setup

On my system, I am using LVM2, and I am routinely using the XFS file system. I am creating a 10 GB sized test filesystem, which I mount to /a. In that, we create a mysql and a conf directory.

The official …

MySQL Shell offer many features to make life easier for DBAs and developers. In this post we discuss some of the options available to use when loading database dumps.

Over the last few years, I have become quite smitten with MySQL Shell. For those who may not be familiar with MySQL Shell, it is a new(ish) command line interface (CLI) for connecting to and managing MySQL instances. During a recent episode of Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks, Fred and I talked to Miguel Araujo about many of the helpful […]

On July 1st, 3 new releases of MySQL came out. Indeed, we released the next 8.0 (8.0.38), the first update of the 8.4 LTS (8.4.1), and the very first 9.0 as Innovation Release. We now support 3 versions of the most popular Open Source database. With these releases, we also want to thank all the […]

MySQL is Open Source and accept contributions from the Community. This is the list of contributions accepted in the last releases.

On July 1st, 3 new releases of MySQL came out. Indeed, we released the next 8.0 (8.0.38), the first update of the 8.4 LTS (8.4.1), and the very first 9.0 as Innovation Release. We now support 3 versions of the most popular Open Source database.

With these releases, we also want to thank all the great contributors who send patches to MySQL.

For some time now, all the contributors have also been highlighted in the Release Notes, but we never thank enough, so let’s take back the good habits of listing them in a dedicated blog post.

Some contributions were merged into multiple versions. Let’s have a look at all these contributions:

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Over the last few years, I have become quite smitten with MySQL Shell. For those who may not be familiar with MySQL Shell, it is a new(ish) command line interface (CLI) for connecting to and managing MySQL instances. During a recent episode of Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks, Fred and I talked to Miguel Araujo about many of the helpful […]

MySQL Shell offer many features to make life easier for DBAs and developers. In this post we discuss some of the options available to use when dumping database schemas and data.

MySQL 9.0 was released on July 1, 2024. This is an ‘Innovation’ release, which means it provides access to the latest features and improvements in MySQL technologies. Innovation releases are the opposite of the Long Term Support (LTS) releases, where stability is the top priority, and only needed security and other fixes are available. This […]

Introduction: In this blog, we will walk through the process of inserting data into a MySQL table using FastAPI. FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints. MySQL HeatWave is a fully managed database service, powered by the HeatWave in-memory query accelerator. It’s the […]