With the release of MySQL 9.7 Community Edition, the Hypergraph Optimizer is now available to everyone. This is a significant addition to MySQL and one that has generated a lot of excitement in the MySQL community. The promise is simple: better execution plans for complex queries, especially those with many joins. Like most new features, […]

Modern applications are expected to deliver instant responses while processing increasingly large volumes of data. Achieving this level of performance isn’t simply a matter of making the database faster.It requires placing the right workload on the right layer of the architecture. Some operations require ultra-fast repeated reads, others demand transactional consistency, while analytical queries benefit […]

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MySQL is one of the databases developers trust most when an application needs a proven, familiar, open source relational engine. Kubernetes has become the orchestration layer teams rely on to run and scale modern workloads. Put them together, and the question gets interesting: how do you run MySQL with the same declarative, repeatable operating model […]

Over the past year, we have taken important steps to increase transparency and engagement across the MySQL ecosystem. Through public roadmap discussions, Early Access releases, publication of worklogs, bug transparency and backlog reduction, community public discussions, increased use of GitHub discussions, and contributor events, we have created more opportunities for the community to understand what […]

This article provides MySQL Major Version Upgrade Checklist along with video, one may follow to ease the upgarde task.

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The inaugural MySQL Contributor Summit, held in May 2026, brought together Oracle engineers, customers, partners, and members of the open source community for a full day of technical collaboration focused on the future of MySQL. The Summit featured more than 20 sessions covering topics including AI integration, performance, observability, replication, developer experience, extensibility, and community […]

MySQL 9.7, a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, incorporates a variety of potential features spanning across multiple technical domains. This article covers some of the primary features introduced and evaluates their practical utility within the MySQL database environment.

Following the End-of-Life (EOL) status of MySQL 8.0, this subsequent LTS release is designed to provide enhanced stability alongside significant architectural innovations.

Let’s discuss each of these features below with some examples and usage.

Flow-control monitoring in Group Replication

Flow control monitoring has been improved and provides more granularity by introducing the additional status variables listed below.

• Gr_flow_control_throttle_count : It denotes the number of transactions that have been throttled.
• Gr_flow_control_throttle_time_sum :It denotes the time in microseconds that transactions have been …

About a year ago, we discussed how MyDumper refactored its locking mechanisms to move away from old, rigid flags and transitioned towards more flexible, streamlined execution. Since then, the MyDumper community hasn’t stood still.

In recent releases, the locking architecture was further standardized under a single overarching option: --sync-thread-lock-mode. Along with this modernization came a powerful new safety feature designed to give you lock-free thread synchronization without risking silent inconsistency: SAFE_NO_LOCK (merged in PR #2031).

Let’s explore the new thread-synchronization landscape and break down when you should use each mode.

What is --sync-thread-lock-mode?

Previously, flags like …

With the new LTS (Long Term Support) release of MySQL 9.7.0 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/9.7/en/ , Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) is one of the new features introduced as part of Enterprise Edition. The recent blog by Mike Frank, MySQL Product Management Director, details why DDM is important in every industry where PII (Personal Identifiable Information) data is stored […]

As a junior once I asked a seasoned MySQL DBA (Abuelo) “How do you stay so calm in critical situations?”Abuelo DBA then uttered golden words: “Son, I keep my dirty…

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