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Again this year, the MySQL Team will be present both before and during FOSDEM. FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a large, free, non-commercial annual conference in Brussels, Belgium, where thousands of free and open-source developers and users attend different sessions and provides an opportunity for those projects to meet their […]

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We have reached the end of our series on deploying to OCI using the Hackathon Starter Kit. For this last article, we will see how to deploy an application using Helidon (Java), the MySQL REST Service, and OCI GenAI with Lanchain4J. We use Helidon because it’s a cool, open-source framework developed by Oracle. It’s lightweight […]

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Welcome to the 20th installment of the 2025 MySQL Community Advent Calendar of Content! For this entry, we are highlighting season 3 of the Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks podcast, which was dedicated to all things artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on MySQL. Across five insightful episodes, Scott, Fred, and a range of expert guests […]

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As the year comes to a close and many of us start slowing down before the winter holidays, I find myself reflecting on patterns I’ve seen repeat, both as a customer and as someone working closely with the PostgreSQL ecosystem.

Looking back at software acquisitions over the past year, one might assume they only change logos. In reality, they often change roadmaps, priorities, and unfortunately all too often also the promises customers originally bought into.

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The starter kit deploys a MySQL HeatWave DB System on OCI (see previous posts [1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7]) and enables the MySQL REST Service automatically: The REST Service enables us to provide access to data without requiring SQL. It also provides access to some Gen AI functionalities available in MySQL HeatWave. Adding data to MRS using Visual Studio […]

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We saw in part 6 how to use OCI’s GenAI Service. GenAI Service uses GPUs for the LLMs, but did you know it’s also possible to use GenAI directly in MySQL HeatWave? And by default, those LLMs will run on CPU. The cost will then be reduced. This means that when you are connected to […]

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With PostgreSQL 18 introducing built-in OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, tools like pg_oidc_validator have become an essential part of the ecosystem by enabling server-side verification of OIDC tokens directly inside PostgreSQL. If you’re new to the topic, make sure to read our earlier posts explaining the underlying concepts and the need for external validators:

• Why PostgreSQL needs external token validators
• Security aspects of OIDC validation in PostgreSQL
• Deploying pg_oidc_validator v0.1 - a DBA’s perspective…

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In the previous articles [1][2][3][4][5], we saw how to easily and quickly deploy an application server and a database to OCI. We also noticed that we have multiple programming languages to choose from. In this article, we will see how to use OCI GenAI Service (some are also available with the always-free tier). The goal […]

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Percona Toolkit 3.7.1 has been released on Dec 17, 2025. The most important updates in this version are:

• Finalized SSL/TLS support for MySQL
• Added support for Debian 13 and Amazon Linux 2023
• Fixed MariaDB support broken in version 3.7.0
• Added options to skip certain collections in pt-k8s-debug-collector and pt-stalk
• Documentation improvements
• Other performance improvements

In this blog, I will outline the most significant changes. A full list of improvements and bug fixes can be found in the release…

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MySQL Shorts is a curated series of concise video tutorials designed to deliver focused, easily digestible content to the MySQL community. Each episode zeroes in on a specific feature or solution, making it easier for developers and database enthusiasts to grasp complex topics quickly. With over 124,000 views and more than 2,350 hours of watch […]

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