This blog delves into deploying InnoDB ClusterSet with MySQL Operator across multiple Kubernetes clusters using Cilium. It illustrates how Cilium facilitates seamless connectivity between clusters, enabling them to operate as a unified entity, as though they were part of a single cluster.

This blog discusses atomicity in MySQL's CREATE/DROP SCHEMA operations, examines issues in earlier versions, and shows how atomicity was achieved, using crash scenarios for illustration.

Yesterday I participated to the Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives in Zurich.

It was a good opportunity to learn more about AI, Cloud and HeatWave with the focus on very trendy features of this product: generative AI, machine learning, vector processing, analytics and transaction processing across data in Data Lake and MySQL databases.

It was also great to share moments with the Oracle and MySQL teams and meet customers which gave feedback and tips about their solutions already in place in this area.

I’ll try to summarize below some key take-away of each session.

Unlocking Innovation: How Oracle AI is Shaping the Future of Business (by Jürgen Wirtgen)

AI is not a new topic. But how do we …

How to deploy MySQL HeatWave on AWS

Multicloud is a cloud adoption strategy that utilizes services from multiple cloud providers rather than relying on just one. This approach enables organizations to take advantage of the best services for specific tasks, enhances resilience, and helps reduce costs. Additionally, a multicloud strategy offers the flexibility necessary to meet regulatory requirements and increases options for […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]