If you are deploying MySQL on containers, one of the first tasks is to find the right image. There’s a certain amount of confusion, especially when we’re trying to help someone who’s having problems with their deployment. For example, when people say I’m using the official docker image… what does that really mean? Docker Hub, […]

Many of us, old MySQL DBAs used Seconds_Behind_Source from SHOW REPLICA STATUS to find out the status and correct execution of (asynchronous) replication. Please pay attention of the new terminology. I’m sure we’ve all used the old terminology. However, MySQL replication has evolved a lot and the replication team has worked to include a lot […]

After having explained how to build MySQL 8 (MySQL 8.0 and MySQL 8.1) on OL9 and OL7, this episode of the series will cover how to build MySQL 8 on Oracle Linux 8 (OL8) and compatible (EL8, CentOS 8, …). My build machine is a VM.Standard.E4.Flex instance on OCI having 8 OCPUs and 128GB of […]

This is the second post of a serie on how to build RPMs for MySQL 8 (8.0 and 8.1) on Oracle Linux (and compatible). The first post was dedicated on Oracle Linux 9 (OL9/EL9) and this one is about Oracle Linux 7. To be able to build successfully MySQL 8 on OL7, I needed to […]

After discussing with Simon, Oracle ACE Pro for MySQL,  about some issues when trying to recompile MySQL 8.0.34 on CentOS 9 (see #111159), I also tried it and indeed some dependencies are not listed when compiling via the source RPM. This article is the first of a serie about how to buil MySQL 8 (8.0 […]

There are plenty GUI and Web application used to monitor a MySQL server. But if you are long time MySQL DBA, you might have used (and abused) Innotop ! I loved it ! And I even became maintainer of it. This particular task became more and more complicated with the different forks and their differences. […]

In this blog post, I want to share my experience and learning after challenging myself on my MySQL blog writing spree in recent past. I invite you to comment on…

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  For Official MySQL Release Policy    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/mysql-releases.html      At Oracle, we constantly look for ways to improve our products to better fit your needs. We are excited to introduce MySQL Innovation and Long-Term Supported releases, which is an important improvement in the MySQL versioning model. The patch releases of MySQL 5.7 and previous […]

To continue our journey to Moodle on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Ampere compute instances and MySQL HeatWave Database Service [1] [2], in this article we will see how to scale our architecture using multiple Moodle instances, High Availability for the Database and Read Scale-Out. This is the architecture we will deploy: The same principles can […]

In the previous post, we saw how to quickly deploy Moodle to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Ampere compute instances and using MySQL HeatWave. In this post, we will explore some other features and the benefits of running on OCI and MySQL HeatWave to extend our architecture dedicated to Moodle in the Cloud. Read Replicas Moodle […]