This post is the first of a series of articles dedicated to MySQL Database Service (MDS): Using MySQL Database Service in OCI – Part 1: creating a MySQL DB System Using MySQL Database Service in OCI – Part 2: importing…
Recently, I wrote several articles on how to load data from CSV files to migrate from different databases to MySQL Database Service: How to import data from PostgreSQL to MySQL Database Service How to import data from Amazon Redshift to…
As you know, MySQL 8.0 can be used as JSON Document Store to store your documents without being linked to any schema. You can also use CRUD operations to deal with these documents using the MySQL X DevAPI. Of course…
MySQL 8.0.27 introduced a new variable to control the maximum of parallel threads InnoDB can use for creating (sorting and building) secondary indexes: innodb_ddl_threads. This new variable is coupled with another new variable: innodb_ddl_buffer_size. If you have fast storage and…
In October 10th was released the latest GA version of MySQL: 8.0.27. As usual, it’s highly advised to read the release notes to get informed about the changes and bug fixed. MySQL is Open Source and each release contains contributions…
Recently, I saw many interest in understanding and getting information about database locking. MySQL InnoDB’s locking can be complex and having an overview not always simple. For more information about how InnoDB locking is working, I can only recommend this…
MySQL InnoDB Cluster is the official High Availability solution for and from MySQL. MySQL InnoDB Cluster is composed by MySQL Server, MySQL Group Replication, MySQL Router and MySQL Shell. Before InnoDB Cluster there was no standard solution for MySQL Availability…
When you use MySQL Shell with extra Python plugins (like these available on GitHub), sometimes, you could need extra Python modules. Some of my plugins require requests and prettytable for example. MySQL 8.0.26 uses embedded Python 3.9 and if your…
I’m active on multiple platforms (mail, slack, forums, …) and often, when people are looking for help, the first 5 or 10 questions are always the same: which version of MySQL are you running ? which OS ? is it…
In the previous post we saw how to easily deploy (in just some mouse clicks) MySQL Database Service on two different regions with data replicated from the source to the replica using OCI Resource Manager Stack. In this article, we…
Recently, we discovered how to setup Disaster Recovery in OCI MySQL Database Service using inbound/outbound replication. In this article we will see how we can deploy MDS replication architecture very easily using Terraform and OCI Resource Manager. The current modules…
Using a MySQL Database Service instance in OCI as an asynchronous replica is very useful. It allows testing the service with always updated data from on-premise production. It can be used in the process of migrating with minimal downtime to…
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