MySQL Router 8.0.22 enables REST API at bootstrap
Since 8.0.17, MySQL Router allows you to performs API call to retrieve statistics to monitor it.
MySQL 8.0.22: thank you for the contributions
Wooohooo MySQL 8.0.22 has been released today ! As usual, this release contains contributions from our great Community and let me thanks all the contributors on behalf of the MySQL Team. MySQL 8.0.22 includes contributions from Denis Yarkovoy, Gord Thomson,…
Migrate from on premise MySQL to MySQL Database Service
This post was first published on Oracle MySQL Blog. If you are running MySQL on premise, it’s maybe the right time to think about migrating your lovely MySQL database somewhere where the MySQL Team prepared a comfortable place for it…
Deploying WordPress on OCI with MySQL Database Service: the easy way !
During the MDS webinar on how to deploy WordPress on OCI using MDS (slides & video), I briefly explained how to deploy the full architecture on OCI using Resource Manager and Stacks. The Stack for that architecture is now available…
Using MySQL Database Service for WordPress
Today we will see how to use MySQL Database Service aka MDS with WordPress. To achieve this easy task, we will use the architecture we already deployed in this article. We have then two Compute Instances on OCI, 1 running…
Testing MySQL Database Service without VPN – part 2
In a recent article, I explained how to test MySQL Database Service (aka MDS) on OCI without having to setup a VPN. A VPN is the recommended way and of course using some man-in-the-middle exposing the MySQL Classic and X…
Testing MySQL Database Service without VPN
Please note that this is not recommended for any production purpose, don’t expose MySQL traffic to the Internet ! MySQL Database Service is now available, take a look at this nice introduction video:
Author on Oracle MySQL Blog
You may have noticed, I started to blog also on the official Oracle MySQL Blog. When I will do so, I will also publish my articles on lefred.be after a short delay. I really invite you to follow the official…
MySQL Shell and storing passwords
If you plan for example to have a bastion host in the cloud to access all your MySQL servers and use only MySQL Shell, the first time you connect to one of the host, you will realize that MySQL Shell…
From MySQL Group Replication to MySQL InnoDB Cluster
I wanted to be brave and I installed MySQL Group Replication manually…. it was painful ! Then I realized that managing those servers and especially deal with MySQL Routers was even more painful ! What are my options now ?…
MySQL: who’s filling my error log?
This morning, a user asked in the MySQL Community Slack if somebody had an idea why the error log was filled up continuously with a warning messages like this one: 2020-07-24T06:54:00.877128Z 46 [Warning] [MY-013360] [Server] Plugin sha256_password reported: ”sha256_password’ is…
MySQL – Keep an eye on your auto_increment values
In MySQL, it’s very common and recommended to you an auto_increment as Primary Key. However that integer can have different types each having their size limitation, and they can also be signed or not. Many people when creating a table…
