In part 4 of our series on the OCI Hackathon Starter Kit, we saw how to connect to the deployed MySQL HeatWave instance from our clients (MySQL Shell, MySQL Shell for VS Code, and Cloud Shell). In this post, we…
Let’s now see how we can connect to our MySQL HeatWave DB System, which was deployed with the OCI Hackathon Starter Kit in part 1. We have multiple possibilities to connect to the DB System, and we will use three…
We saw in part 1 how to deploy our starter kit in OCI, and in part 2 how to connect to the compute instance. We will now check which development languages are available on the compute instance acting as the…
In part 1, we saw how to deploy several resources to OCI, including a compute instance that will act as an application server and a MySQL HeatWave instance as a database. In this article, we will see how to SSH…
If you want to create a new application, test it, and deploy it on the cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides an always-free tier for compute instances and MySQL HeatWave instances (and more). If you are a developer, it can also…
On October 10th, 2025, we released MySQL 9.5, the latest Innovation Release. As usual, we released bug fixes for 8.0 and 8.4 LTS, but this post focuses on the newest release. In this release, we can see contributions related to…
Recently, I published an article related to MRS (MySQL REST Service), which we released as a lab. I wanted to explore how I could use this new cool feature within an application. I decided to create an application from scratch…
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, but this post focuses on the newest release. In this release, we can notice several contributions related…
Have you already tried to upgrade the MySQL version of your MySQL HeatWave instance in OCI that is deployed with Terraform? When you tried, you realized, I hope you didn’t turn off backups, that the instance is destroyed and recreated…
The MySQL REST Service is a next-generation JSON Document Store solution, enabling fast and secure HTTPS access to data stored in MySQL, HeatWave, InnoDB Cluster, InnoDB ClusterSet, and InnoDB ReplicaSet. The MySQL REST Service was first released on in…
We all know MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet, a solution that links multiple InnoDB Clusters and Read Replicas asynchronously to easily generate complex MySQL architectures and manage them without burdensome commands. All this thanks to the MySQL Shell’s AdminAPI. This is an…
During the last MySQL & HeatWave Summit, Wim Coekaerts announced that a new optimizer is available and is already enabled in MySQL HeatWave. Let’s have a quick look at it and how to use it. The first step is to…
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