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MySQL Enterprise Edition enables financial services organizations to thrive in a complex and ever-changing environment. By harnessing its capabilities, these institutions can modernize their operations, protect their data, and unlock new opportunities for growth. Modernize your applications and embrace the future of financial services with MySQL Enterprise Edition.

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MySQL 8.0 and newer change and improve how we measure and monitor replication lag. Even though multi-threaded replication (MTR) has been on by default for the last three years (since v8.0.27 released October 2021), the industry has been steeped in single-threaded replication for nearly 30 years. As a result, replication lag with MTR is a complicated topic because it depends on version, configuration, and more. This three-part series provides a detailed understanding, starting from what was origi

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Installing Example Databases on HeatWave Using Cloud Shell and MySQL Shell

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A new feature to MySQL NDB Cluster replication allows the NDB data nodes to skip sending unnecessary updates to subscribing MySQL Server nodes. These updates reflect changes that occurred in the NDB cluster, and some subscribing MySQL Servers are configured to discard changes applied by a replica or that are not to be written to binary log at all. Instead of having MySQL Servers discarding changes, the NDB data nodes do such work for them saving computing resources for the whole cluster.

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Supported by the growing maturity of operators, many organizations have graduated from using Kubernetes to deploy and manage stateless applications to adopting it for all kinds of stateful workload deployment in the last 4 years.

But, running databases on Kubernetes is much more than deployment and can include Day 2 operations like backup and recovery, which are critical in any database lifecycle, regardless of where they are deployed.

For high availability, you would store your backups ex

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Join us for an in-depth webinar where we introduce the new Helm Chart for Galera Cluster for MySQL, now available from Codership (read the blog).

In this session, we’ll guide you through the process of deploying a high-availability MySQL cluster using Galera Cluster on Kubernetes (live demo!). You’ll learn how Helm Charts can simplify Kubernetes application management, including installation and upgrades, while ensuring robust deployment automation.

This webinar is ideal for database adminis

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HeatWave MySQL now supports Automatic Storage Expansion. HeatWave Automatic Storage Expansion dynamically adjusts storage capacity to accommodate increasing database workloads, ensuring continuous operation without any downtime.

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This October release is the third LTS release and second Innovation release since MySQL announced our move to a new LTS/Innovation release model. For more details see MySQL Releases: Innovation and LTS. During the innovation cycle, MySQL 9.x quarterly releases will include new features, deprecations and removals, and bug fixes. The 9.x releases also include Shell, Router, Connectors and Clients. There is also a new release of VS Code for MySQL.

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Recap from MySQL Day Brazil, Oct 5, 2024

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The alarm definitions feature eases the process of creating and managing alarms to monitor HeatWave MySQL DB Systems. It enables you to create Oracle-recommended alarms by making use of the standardized set of rules and thresholds, across multiple databases.

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