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MySQL Belgian Days and FOSDEM 2026: My Impressions

| TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs

First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to Frederic Descamps and the entire team who worked on the MySQL Belgian Days. I was thrilled to see the high number of presentations and the excellent quality across the board. We had two rooms packed with attendees, and the event was simply great. It was also incredibly productive to finally reconnect with so many people in the community face-to-face.

Presentation-wise, I was really impressed by Vitor Oliveira (Huawei) and his talk, "Beyond Linear Read-Ahead: Logical Prefetching using Primary and Secondary Indexes in InnoDB…

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MySQL Belgian Days and FOSDEM 2026: My Impressions

| TusaCentral - MySQL Blogs

First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to Frederic Descamps and the entire team who worked on the MySQL Belgian Days. I was thrilled to see the high number of presentations and the excellent quality across the board. We had two rooms packed with attendees, and the event was simply great. It was also incredibly productive to finally reconnect with so many people in the community face-to-face.

Presentation-wise, I was really impressed by Vitor Oliveira (Huawei) and his talk, "Beyond Linear Read-Ahead: Logical Prefetching using Primary and Secondary Indexes in InnoDB…

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preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2026 Recap: Real-World Ops, New Features, and RockStar Moments

| The Oracle MySQL Blog
Right before FOSDEM kicked off, the preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days returned to the usual place in Brussels for two packed days (Jan 29-30, 2026). The format stayed true to what makes this event special: a friendly, hallway-track-heavy gathering with serious technical content — this year running two parallel tracks and the grand final: the RockStars […]

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Introducing MySQL Backup Export in MySQL HeatWave

| The Oracle MySQL Blog
We are pleased to introduce the ability to export MySQL HeatWave backup data directly to an OCI Object Storage bucket in your tenancy, enabling a one-step process to create an exported backup via the Console or API. This process creates a logical dump from the backup without utilizing DB system resources, thereby minimizing the impact on the […]

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New Era of MySQL Community Engagement

| The Oracle MySQL Blog
As we mark the milestone of MySQL’s 30-year anniversary, the celebrations around the globe have been a testament to the widespread impact and popularity of the Dolphin. This week’s annual preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days in Brussels are not only an opportunity to celebrate, but also a chance for Oracle to share some key updates on […]

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Pre-FOSDEM & FOSDEM 2026, Community, Databases, and Open Source

| Percona
This is a recap of Percona at preFosdem and Fosdem!

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Extending MySQL 8.0 support in MySQL HeatWave

| The Oracle MySQL Blog
MySQL 8.0 is scheduled for End of Life (EOL) in April 2026. In line with this milestone, we previously announced in this Oracle blog post that all existing MySQL HeatWave instances running version 8.0 would be automatically upgraded to the latest supported 8.4 release after April 2026. However, understanding the operational realities and planning cycles […]

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PGDay and FOSDEM Report from Kai

| Percona
The following thoughts and comments are completely my personal opinion and do not reflect my employers thoughts or beliefs. If you don’t like anything in this post, reach out to me directly, so I can ignore it ;-).

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Hackorum - A Forum-Style View of pg-hackers

| Percona
Last year at pgconf.dev, there was a discussion about improving the user interface for the PostgreSQL hackers mailing list, which is the main communication channel for PostgreSQL core development. Based on that discussion, I want to share a small project we have been working on:

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Tuning MySQL for Performance: The Variables That Actually Matter

| Percona
There is a special kind of boredom that only database people know. The kind where you stare at a server humming along and think, surely there is something here I can tune. Good news: there is.

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