Planet MySQL HA Blog

The Planet MySQL HA Blog aggregates content from sources that cover topics related to high availability (HA) for MySQL databases.

Encrypting PostgreSQL Tables with PG_TDE: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

| Percona

Let’s install and try out a new package for PostgreSQL — PG_TDE by Percona. This extension adds Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a mechanism that allows data to be encrypted at the storage level without affecting application behavior.

TDE protects data in case of disk, dump, or backup compromise: everything stored at the file system level is encrypted. Meanwhile, the application continues to work with the data as usual — encryption and decryption happen transparently, without changes to SQL queries or logic.

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pg_tde can now encrypt your WAL on PROD!

| Percona

Just recently, we announced the production-ready release of pg_tde, bringing open source Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to PostgreSQL.
Now, I may have spoiled the fun a little with the title, but take a look at the word puzzle below—can you guess the announcement? Bear with me… and my sense of humor, which might be a bit too dry for some :)

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Introducing Natural Language to SQL for MySQL HeatWave

Announcing the release of a new Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) feature for MySQL HeatWave. This innovative capability enables users to easily convert questions expressed in natural language into SQL queries, simplifying data analysis and accelerating insights.

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Two Models, One World: Introducing JSON Relational Duality Views in MySQL HeatWave

An overview of the support for JSON Relational Duality Views introduced in version 9.4 and made available in the MySQL HeatWave managed cloud service and elsewhere.

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Log Anomaly Detection with MySQL HeatWave AutoML

This post discusses log anomaly detection; key use cases and the challenges faced in identifying anomalies within log data.

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Why Most MySQL HA Setups Fail – And How to Fix Them

| Continuent

After two decades of helping enterprises achieve continuous MySQL operations, we've probably seen it all. The midnight calls about failed failovers. The "highly available" systems that went down for hours during a simple maintenance window. The multi-million-dollar applications that were brought to their knees by a single database node failure.

Here's the uncomfortable truth: most MySQL high-availability implementations fail when they're needed most. Not because the technology is fundamentally flawed, but because of predictable, avoidable design and…

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Archive Smarter, Query Faster: Unlocking MySQL Performance with HeatWave

| MySQL expert Diary

As databases grow, DBAs and developers often face a tough choice:
+ Keep historical data in production tables and risk slow queries
+ Archive it and lose fast access

With HeatWave, you don’t have to choose. You can archive old partitions, keep recent data in production, and still run lightning-fast queries across all your data.

The post Archive Smarter, Query Faster: Unlocking MySQL Performance with HeatWave first appeared on dasini.net - Diary of a MySQL expert.

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Demand Sales Forecasting with HeatWave Regression for Manufacturing Company

Telco's Customer Churn Prediction using HeatWave AutoML

MySQL 9.4 – Thank you for your contributions!

On July 22nd, 2025, we released MySQL 9.4, the latest Innovation Release. As usual, we released bug fixes for 8.0 and 8.4 LTS. In this post we list the contributions we included in the latest version of MySQL.

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