We're excited to announce that PlanetScale is participating as a co-design and launch partner for Stripe Projects, a new developer preview from Stripe that centralizes dev tool provisioning and billing in one place.

What is Stripe Projects?

Stripe Projects is a new way for developers and coding agents to discover, provision, and pay for developer tools all from the Stripe CLI. Instead of jumping between dashboards, entering payment info, and copying credentials across services, everything lives in one centralized workflow.

This fragmented developer workflow has always existed, but AI agents have made the gap much more obvious. The ecosystem has been missing a standard way for provisioning and credential handoff to work reliably across …

Join PlanetScale’s Lead Infrastructure Engineer for Edge connectivity for an explainer on our findings regarding HTTP/3 and the MySQL protocol.

The cost of downtime can range from loss of business to severe reputation damage. Database downtime feels inevitable but is often preventable.

The causes of database issues that lead to downtime can be categorized in the following ways:

• Human error
• System immaturity
• Application issues

In this post, we will explore how PlanetScale can mitigate all three.

Downtime due to human error

We’ve all done it, dropped the wrong table or index and caused queries to dramatically slow or fail. This can lead to entire site outages, as well as cascading failure that impacts other systems. With standard MySQL, if you drop a table that you later find out was still in use, you are in a situation where you now have to restore from backup. Selecting the …

Dropping or removing an unused table from a database schema can be challenging. Even after triple checking that all of your apps have migrated away from querying the table, there may still be that one rogue script that accesses it.

Running the dreaded DROP TABLE statement can cause a host of unintentional problems if that table is still being used elsewhere. It completely erases the table definition, partitions, and the data in that table. Before you drop a table, you should double (or triple!) check when a table was last queried.

When was the table you want to drop last accessed?

You can manually check when a table was last accessed, but it's a bit complicated. The following query will show you the last time a table was written to, but not read:

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Today, we are excited to share that connection strings are available to all PlanetScale users.

As a company that obsesses over making databases more accessible to developers, you might have struggled with why PlanetScale didn’t have a way to connect to your database with connection strings. And we heard you! You can now use the tools you're familiar with to connect to PlanetScale databases, whether that’s with Rails, Python, Prisma, Laravel, or any other MySQL client. Connection strings also enable you to connect to other serverless computing platforms like AWS Lambda or Vercel.

Within PlanetScale, you can generate a new password and automatically get client code for many popular frameworks and languages for you to connect your PlanetScale database.

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