Planet MySQL HA Blog

We’re excited to share that the new Percona Operator for MySQL (based on Percona Server for MySQL) is officially in General Availability (GA)!

This release introduces native MySQL Group Replication support for Kubernetes, providing our community with another open-source option for running reliable, consistent MySQL clusters at scale.

This is about more choices for the community. Each MySQL replication technology addresses different real-world needs, and now you can choose the one that best fits your workloads.

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In the previous blog post about the topic, OAuth, OIDC and validators, we discussed basic terminologies to understand the differences between the protocols and how they relate to PostgreSQL.

In this second part, we’ll go one step further and see how OIDC works exactly in other software and in PostgreSQL, and what OAuthBearer is about. We also focus on the possible attacks and dangers in this flow with some examples to showcase why it’s important to use a properly configured secure provider and to teach our users not to just skim through the authorization process.

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In our earlier post, we unpacked the mechanics of MySQL HeatWave maintenance, the behind-the-scenes process that keeps your MySQL environments secure, stable, and optimized without changing your database version. We also touched on how Auto Minor Version Upgrades occur when a version reaches the end of its lifecycle. With this update, MySQL HeatWave introduces Configurable Maintenance Windows and Auto-Upgrade Controls, giving you […]

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The MySQL Enterprise Tools Development Team is pleased to announce the maintenance release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 8.0.14 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available for download via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few days. If you are not familiar with MySQL Enterprise Monitor, it is […]

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As with any new releases, MySQL 8.0.21 introduces many new improvements and updates, many of which deserve their own blog post for a deep dive into the new features.  Among the notable changes are: Account Management Notes, JSON Notes, Authentication Notes and changes related to InnoDB, Optimizer, Group Replication, and more. Here are the MySQL […]

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If you are running MySQL on premise, it's maybe the right time to think about migrating your lovely MySQL database somewhere where the MySQL Team prepared a comfortable place for it to stay running and safe. This awesome place is MySQL Database Service in OCI. For more information about what MDS is and what it […]

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the Oracle Cloud Platform where the tutorial leverages 3 services – namely the MySQL Database Service (MDS), Kubernetes Container (K8s) under Developer Services and Compute VM services. This article is written to provide the steps to provision MDS, K8s and Compute VM services.   It also provides the steps to create […]

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You have a MySQL instance? Great. You want to take it to a cloud? Nothing new. You want to do it fast, minimizing downtime / service outage? “I wish” I hear you say. Pull up a chair. Let’s have a chinwag. Given the objective above, i.e. “I have a database server on premise and I want […]

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Securing a database includes securing sensitive items such as keys, passphrases, and more. Its important to protect from misuse by using cryptography and access controls to limit usage by only the components that use them or admins that require them.  MySQL Enterprise Keyring security component provides integrated Key Management with secure vaults.  Starting with MySQL Enterprise Edition 8.0.22, […]

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  Introduction MySQL is the most popular open-source database and many organizations choose MySQL to store their valuable enterprise data. MySQL is optimized for OLTP, but it is not designed for analytic processing. As a result, organizations which need to efficiently run analytics on data stored in MySQL database move their data to another database […]

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