I joined the MariaDB Foundation
Last Friday was my last day at Oracle. Today is my first day at MariaDB.org! Of course, this move is a big surprise for many people, but not for me, and it might not be for those following the MySQL…
Native Password Legacy for 9.6
In the previous article, I shared a solution for people who want to try the latest and greatest MySQL version. We just released MySQL Innovation 9.6, and for those willing to test it with their old application and require the…
Old app, new database… am I screwed?
Who has never encountered a customer who, for all sorts of reasons (valid or not), was unable to update an application and therefore could no longer connect to the latest versions of MySQL? Or worse still, data that is shared…
preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days 2026 – Agenda
I am pleased to unveil the agenda for our two days dedicated to MySQL and its community just before FOSDEM. The preFOSDEM MySQL Belgian Days will take place on January 29 and 30th in Brussels. We received many excellent proposals…
Deploying on OCI with the starter kit – part 9 (deploying a full app)
We have reached the end of our series on deploying to OCI using the Hackathon Starter Kit. For this last article, we will see how to deploy an application using Helidon (Java), the MySQL REST Service, and OCI GenAI with…
Deploying on OCI with the starter kit – part 8 (using MySQL REST Service)
The starter kit deploys a MySQL HeatWave DB System on OCI and enables the MySQL REST Service automatically: The REST Service enables us to provide access to data without requiring SQL. It also provides access to some Gen AI functionalities…
Deploying on OCI with the starter kit – part 7 (GenAI in HeatWave)
We saw in part 6 how to use OCI’s GenAI Service. GenAI Service uses GPUs for the LLMs, but did you know it’s also possible to use GenAI directly in MySQL HeatWave? And by default, those LLMs will run on…
Deploying on OCI with the starter kit – part 6 (GenAI)
In the previous articles [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], we saw how to easily and quickly deploy an application server and a database to OCI. We also noticed that we have multiple programming languages to choose from. In this article,…
Deploying on OCI with the starter kit – part 5 (connecting to the database II)
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…
Deploying on OCI with the starter kit – part 4 (connecting to the database)
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…
Deploying on OCI with the starter kit – part 3 (applications)
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…
Deploying on OCI with the starter kit – part 2
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…